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Month: March 2011

Superstition Mountain Museum: Pure Arizona Nature Glam

Superstition Mountain Museum is a fun place to swing by if you happen to be in the neighborhood, and by neighborhood, I mean Arizona. The place offers clean restrooms, a gift shop, and an indoor museum, but my favorite thing to do there is wander along the site’s picturesque outdoor trail. The setting is pure Arizona nature-glam, making it ideal for posing group shots with Mount Superstition looming in the background and rugged desert cacti dotting the foreground. It’s also perfect for taking silly cactus pictures. You know the ones I mean: photos which make it look like you are…

Saturday Show & Tell – Short and Sweet

This week’s Saturday Show & Tell is short and sweet thanks to a technical glitch. Turns out that items submitted through the blog carnival site got tossed to the ether and are now cavorting with Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Hoffa and all the socks that go MIA each year from my washer. I usually get half a dozen really spammy submissions in addition to the sincere ones, but this week – nothing – which I found odd. Fortunately, Mad Kane sent an email to me directly asking if her submission had made it through. It hadn’t. So, our first submission this…

Playing Around at Arizona’s Musical Instrument Museum

Music lovers have a new must-see attraction to add to their wish list: The Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) in Phoenix, Arizona. MIM, which opened in April of 2010, currently displays over 3000 instruments from around the world. As if this weren’t impressive enough, MIM gives each visitor a small infrared device attached to headphones to guide them through the museum. As you approach displays, you hear information and music samples through these headphones and can watch matching videos, too. (Frankly, I would have liked the place even without those headphones, but having them really enhances the experience.) Instruments are arranged…

Show & Tell – How to Manage Your Creative Flow

Two things set this week’s Saturday Show & Tell blog carnival apart from previous ones: Gender: This time around, a couple of guys joined in – hooray for adding some testosterne to the mix, fellas. Theme: Although I did not set up a theme for this week’s Show & Tell blog carnival, one has emerged all on its own: How to Manage Your Creative Flow. First up, Madeleine Begun Kane describes in rhyme how she copes with writer’s block in her post, Writing Humor Isn’t Funny. Next, Samir presents a piece entitled See Also … which he describes as, “Rambling…

5 Reasons You Should Never Work at Home in Your Pajamas

The first thing people say when they hear that I work at home is often some variant of, “Lucky you! You can work in your pajamas!” to which I just smile the way people called “Otto” smile at yet another car-related pun in reference to their name. Only rarely do I bother to explain that, in fact, the only time I work in my pajamas is if I am sick and have a deadline to meet. Other than that, I absolutely never, ever work in my pajamas, and neither should you. Here are 5 reasons why you should never work…

My Close Encounter with Roswell New Mexico

OK, so it was actually more of a roadtrip through Roswell than a roadtrip to Roswell, New Mexico, but I am glad we stopped by because I made two startling discoveries: The singer John Denver hails from Roswell, New Mexico. (Gasp! Perhaps his ultralight aircraft was reverse engineered?) New Mexican style Mexican food is quite different than the Tex Mex we get here in the Dallas – Fort Worth Metroplex. I didn’t see any UFOS in the sky, but I spotted shop windows and signs all over town featuring aliens galore: TO SEE MORE PHOTOS and READ THE REST, CLICK…