As I told Christopher C of Clyde, NC, when it comes to blogging memes I’m a virgin (no jokes, please). But because he "tagged" the GardenRanters in a nice way and practically begged us for a little more information
about ourselves, I promised him I’d play. And while this meme calls for 6 "random" things about the blogger, I notice that participants list 6 potentially interesting things because truly random things might be how many toothbrushes they own and similarly forgettable details, so to hell with that. Anyhoo, here goes.
1. For readers who’ve noticed me asking about every social event "Will there be dancing?" here’s the story behind that. It started, as it does for so many girls, with ballet, tap and "modern jazz" but then progressed to swing, Cajun, Zydeco, Texas two-step, contra, squares, Appalachian clogging, African, assorted ballroom, and other categories I may be forgetting, and Israeli folk dancing could be in my future for all I know. I used to write about "participatory dance" for DanceView Magazine.
2. I also used to be an adventurous world traveler but trekking in Nepal – in January no less – and then touring India ALONE cured me of that particular obsession. Now I’m a total homebody.
3. To prove the point, my only sibling has lived in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico for 7 years now and I’ve only visited once.
4. I did have ONE terrific business trip - to work at the World Court in The Hague, after which I spent a fun-filled weekend in Amsterdam on my own dime (thus staying in a $12/nite flophouse).
5. In my career as a court reporter in D.C. I’ve had lots of boring assignments and a few really juicy ones involving famous people, important events or scandal. Want some names? Okay – Monica Lewinsky, Bill Cosby, Claus von Bulow and Liv Ullman come to mind.
6. Warning to parents of preteens and teens: This story could keep you up at night. At 12 or 13 I routinely climbed out my bedroom window to joy-ride across the countryside with a bunch of neighborhood hellions, but never got caught. My dad found out about it decades later from my sister and was FURIOUS.
There, I think I’ve answered the meme without getting in trouble with anyone or telling on any of my husbands.
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First up, my curbside garden is looking pretty colorful, with plain old garden phlox and some snappy red daylilies (‘Brave World’). The more I show off this curb garden the more I realize how lucky I am to have this little strip where:
