This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and in 2013 I decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things seen on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, so my blog is peppered with folks I meet or reflections of characters I have known through the years. Often something piques my interest, or evokes a pleasant memory from my memory bank, so this becomes a “slice o’ life” blog post. I respect and appreciate nature and my interactions with Mother Nature’s gifts is also a common theme. Sometimes the most-ordinary items become fodder for points to ponder over and touch upon.
I retired in March 2024 after a career in the legal field. I was a legal secretary for 45 years, primarily working in downtown Detroit, then working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Mass Communications (print journalism) in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I would like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met, shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy. I hope you think so too.
Linda Schaub
WALKIN', WRITIN', WIT & WHIMSY 
just found you…a real treat…
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Thank you – welcome aboard!!
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I like the way you think and write, Linda! 🙂
Keep on shining that light! Gotta love your honesty!
Nice to meet you! I’m impressed. Best wishes, Uncle Tree
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Thank you Uncle Tree.
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Great post.
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Thank you so much.
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You’re welcome.
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I read your responses to Anne Mehrling’s post and was inspired to click on your name, which led me to the blog. I like your “About” page and can totally identify with you in “people watching”.
What resonated with me was that you studied one thing but have never worked in that field. That is akin to my situation now.
Susie
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I’m so sorry, this message went to my SPAM folder … I have never had “real” messages go to SPAM before, and a fellow blogger mentioned having some comments in her SPAM, (coincidentally one of Anne Mehrling’s fellow bloggers … Ellie), so I came to look and found three. Yikes! My apologies as I always answer comments. I have always enjoyed people watching and I worked for years in downtown Detroit and a whole book could be written as to that subject. So, we are in the same boat and coincidentally, I had a new follower a couple of weeks ago, a young woman from Ireland, and she is a legal secretary who has two degrees and not sure what she is going to do with them. I had worked in an advertising agency right out of school (1978) and I had a mentor, a wonderful copywriter who was bound and determined he would help me up the ladder to at least a junior copywriting job, but we lost our major account and he went to another agency. With his help, I might have had a job that would have used my degree, but here I am forty years later and haven’t done anything with it. It is disheartening sometimes. This is a post that I wrote about my mentor, Jerry. https://lindaschaubblog.net/2015/03/25/not-all-ad-men-are-mad-men/
What line of work are you in? Is there any hope for the future that something comes along? I am 62 and at this point, I figure that the blog has taken the place of a creative job in a writing field which was my original intention all those years ago. Again, I am sorry for the tardy response. I generally only check the SPAM folder for SPAM and haven’t checked in a while, or I’d have seen your legitimate message. I enjoy following Anne’s blog and have had some nice e-mail chats with her as well. She wanted to send me some pictures so we exchanged e-mail addresses a few weeks ago.
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Anne is a good friend. I have made at least 5 good friends from the blog and I haven’t seen any of them in real life.
I am a doctor, a medical one. But am currently working as an administrator- making money for a master’s degree.I am 48 and by all standards rather old to study- but since it is a bucket list thing for me, I plan to do it. I have reached this far against a lot of odds and I aim to see the end of the road on this path before I lay down my arms.
I will read your posts as I enjoy a good read every day. My habit is to find a writer whose tone of writing resonates with me and then I keep reading till I finish all their posts.
Sometimes in life, we meet someone who wants to genuinely give us a shoulder to climb on and move up- often, i have found people to the contrary.
Thanks for writing to me.
Susie
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Kudos to you for doing this Susie – I admire you. I have having computer problems at work and cannot remote in … the computer guy cannot figure out what the problem is – I am waiting to troubleshoot with him momentarily. What is/was/will be your specialty upon graduation? Where are you living now to complete your “Western” education. Glad you are a long-winded writer as well. 🙂
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What is your email Linda ?
I will send you an email with details.
Susie
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I am going to send you my e-mail address to your e-mail that I saw on your Contact me page, how’s that? Please tell me if you don’t get it okay Susie?
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Yes, I did and replied to you too !
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Yes, I have already tucked your address away for safekeeping Susie.
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Great title – Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy! I too just looove alliteration – which you may notice from time to time if you keep up with my Friday Follies posts! 🙂 I’d like us to exchange email addresses, Linda – but I don’t see a “Contact Me” form on here. Am I just not seeing it?
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Hi Ellie – I love alliteration too and try to use it when I can, plus assonance as well. I don’t have a “Contact Me” form and I just looked to see where I can put it in, and the widget for my theme (I use Twenty Ten) has a contact me button for business, hours, location/map only. I can give you my e-mail address if you’d like through here. I started e-mailing Anne as she wanted to show me some pictures and I had to do it through a WordPress post as her “Contact Me” form was not working and I didn’t have one in place. I have been reading the how-to section and it is a plug-in with coding that I have to use to update my page with contact me info, so I’ll do that this weekend.
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Nice getting to know you! By the way, saw the photo of the little girl in the plaid skirt and had to smile – had a quite similar outfit, and my bangs were ‘way short, too – could we be twins? 🙂
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Thank you and I must say of all my old pictures, that is the one I like the best. I remember my parents said a photographer came around the neighborhood and took pictures offering to colorize them, a new and radical enhancement! That’s why there are only three colors in that pic. My parents cut my bangs for years, and every single picture of me, I’ll look at it and cringe at those bangs! They used scotch tape and stood on either side of me while they cut them … always too short and always crooked! Thanks Mom and Dad for reducing my cuteness factor back in the day. Maybe we are twins – you never know. I would have liked a sister or brother – just an only child. I was born in Toronto and lived there until age 10, then moved to Michigan. I really like those old photos and memories – make me feel all warm inside. 🙂
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They are wonderful, aren’t they. So nostalgic. I wish I still had the photo I’m thinking of…but alas, no. 🙂
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I love looking at old photos, and my mom sat with me when I was young and explained who a lot of the people (now gone) were and what the occasion was for the picture(s). Sorry you can’t find your photo – at least seeing mine in the skirt with the suspenders brought back some nice memories for you. He even colorized my cheeks in this photo but left the houses in the background black and white – now people have no concept of how they colorized old photos of even old movies for that matter.
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Yes and yes! Your picture is really a treasure! I actually am obsessed with the really antique portrait photos, the ones from the 1800’s – so interesting to see the hands, faces, clothes. I even wrote a short collection of ghost stories using these as the theme – (Seepia Seepage). 🙂
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Taking a quick peek here at work and I have a client who often sends old pictures in e-mails. They are usually of old scenes or personalities from years ago. I’ve gotten so busy with blogging when I got more followers (all at one time, after almost five years of just a handful) and have around 350 e-mails from Jack in my work e-mail (gasp!). Not all are e-mails with vintage pics, but many are. I have a blogger friend who often uses old pictures in his blog, so I usually send him the e-mails and he repurposes them. I got one this week and sent it to Johnny and will look for your e-mail address on Contact me to send to you … I’ll go through those e-mails and scan for e-mails for both of you. Over the years, he has great vintage pics of the Wild Wild West and they are so clear. I have some old pics myself – I digitized all my photo albums last year, but the project is far from finished – in fact, many of the “images” are a scan of the entire page with four, five, even six pics on the album page – it will be a large project but satisfying to finish. This is a post I did for Valentine’s Day – my mom would have turned 92 and this pic is my grandparents holding my mom shortly after she was born.
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Linda, wow, thank you so much! BTW I just read your post (the above link) and have to share that my maiden name is Klein. Synchroni City. 🙂
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Bopped back here again to see if you saw the old picture – glad you enjoyed that photo. See … we have more in common than just our choice of clothes – my maternal grandmother was from a town near Guelph, Ontario. I am Canadian, but lived here since we moved in 1966 – I was ten years old when we came here. I have some baby photos of my mom, one on a bear rug, also around the same time period. Some are not in as pristine condition, but considering their age, look pretty good.
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I’m from Seattle originally, and my father’s family came from Portland, OR. I’m 69, so a bit older than you 🙂 Those bear rug photos were all the rage in those days. How neat that you have one!!
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I see – no chance we are “kin” then … I do think Klein is a popular name though. I’ve lived in Michigan since 1966. We are close enough in age to have some memories that we share – I am glad you liked those photos I e-mailed you. They brought back some fond memories of growing up. And glad you also liked the vintage pics as well. I will find that bearskin photo and send it along to you Jan – I just made myself a note to myself. It is one image on one of those entire album pages I scanned in and I’ll have to separate the individual photos, but it is precious.
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Thanks, Linda, will look forward! – Yes, I think Klein is like Smith. Loads of them. My particular family of Kleins, when you look back, emigrated from someplace in what is now Hungary (what was then the Holy Roman Empire).
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My father was from Germany, but all my mom’s relatives were from Canada, some from Quebec. I have a friend who is very interested in genealogy and did my “tree” for me. Very interesting all that she was able to find on Ancestry.com. My mom and grandmother had talked about relatives but she laid them right out in a list for me to see. I have a note to find the vintage pic for you this weekend. You mentioned your book re: sepia pics … I love those sepia-toned old photos and have several of them, and I also like the manner of dress back in those days.
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What fun to have your genealogy done! Those old sepia photos are just amazing – they seem so soulful, somehow. The eyes appear to look right into yours – which gave me the idea for my stories! 🙂 Yes, they had great wardrobes then! They would roll their eyes at us in our torn jeans. 🙂
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You’re so right Jan. They were often dressed so formally, both the men and the women. All those clothes on a stifling hot day and maybe just a hand fan to keep you cool with all those layers (especially the women with their petticoats and crinolines). They would roll their eyes at our styles – that is for sure.
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Of course we’d be blown away by their, ah, lack of deodorant/different hygiene. I was in an English park one hot summer day and even then it hit me like a ton of bricks – that many of the folk there perhaps didn’t launder their clothing as often as I, and certainly may have been unfamiliar with antiperspirants. And you think about those silks and other fabrics they really couldn’t clean – and bathing less often – etc – phew. Of course if you were used to it, it wouldn’t be at all noticeable. But it’s kind of the other side of the romance I guess 🙂 I do love the formality though!
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I like the formality too, but think of those fancy dresses and the men’s fashions in “Gone With the Wind” and all that heat … likely no fan to push the air around save for a hand fan – whew indeed!
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Thank you so much Sindre for the mention about my blog. I hope no one is disappointed because three solid days of rain has kept me inside the house and not on the walking path. Yesterday we had freezing rain which made the trees look beautiful, but it wreaked havoc with large trees and electrical wires after 1/2 inch of ice deposited itself in short order and brought down to the ground and 300,000 people lost power. I was unscathed thankfully, but I feel for them, as I’ve lost power many times and we’re still having Winter-like weather here in SE Michigan. Thank you again for your kind words. – Linda
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That was a great ‘about’. You have an extremely happy tone in your writers voice. Makes me smile. 🙂
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Thank you for saying that Bryan … I try to stay positive in a world that is not always so positive these days. Glad you enjoyed it.
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I recently tagged you in two blog-posts 🙂
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Hi Sindre – I am sorry but today’s comment went into my SPAM folder. I have two bloggers who occasionally go in there and I don’t know why. As to the first message on my “About” I do thank you for that and that one I did see and appreciate you tagging me and sharing my blog info. As for today’s award, that is a different story. I thank you for nominating me for this as well, and I must share with you that I have written this blog a little over 5 years (02/11/13). Up until last November 2017 I had under 20 followers, all but one followed me via subscription. Then things began getting a little crazy around American Thanksgiving when someone on a travel site made a comment on one of my posts. I followed this person, and made some comments – well, you know the rest. Things have snowballed and I find myself today with 145 followers. I am amazed and grateful and this blog has taken me on a journey I could not even imagine, and I love the interaction with people, just like you, who are many miles from me, and a different culture – it has been a chance to meet new people and learn new things. This past February, one of the people who follows me, nominated me for an award. I was incredulous, since I was still operating in the mode where I wrote blog posts, and had two faithful commenters for all these years, and one of those commenters passed away last August (the person who encouraged me to write the blog in the first place). At any rate, I was nominated for an award, and at that time, (February 2, 2018) I had 50 followers. I was stymied and could not decide how I should choose other people and exclude others, so I did a blog post explaining my quandary and I made sure I posted the link at her site. She understood. It has happened a couple more time and again I was overwhelmed with gratitude, but chose the same path, to not exclude anyone else, so I did not participate. I hope you understand Sindre, and please don’t think I am rude, but know I am honored. I am sorry I didn’t respond to this post earlier … I was getting on WordPress in the morning and found myself staying here way too long, was late leaving for walks, or errands, and, though I do work from home, I try to keep to a somewhat normal work schedule and don’t stray over here much during the day unless I’ve got some extra time. Thank you again for your kindness. Here is what I wrote back in February.
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I just checked my spam folder and your comment from today (Saturday) was in there … I didn’t see it this morning, I only noticed you had acknowledged my comment with a “like” – I have marked it as “not spam” and then deleted it and maybe that will help going forward.
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Hi Linda,
I just noticed your comment on The Chicken Grandma’s site about being from SE MI and thought I better pay you a visit. I too live in SE MI (Saint Clair County). I have also been blogging for several years but only developed a following in the past 6 months. I haven’t met any other bloggers from the area. I am going to follow and snoop around a bit and just wanted to say “HI”.
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Hi Ruth – I have been blogging for five years and only got a following in the past six months as well … so we have two things in common!
I was recommended The Chicken Grandma’s site from a fellow blogger “Mehrling’s Musings” (Anne Mehrling). I was looking at your site yesterday as I have had problems with sensitive skin on my hands and will come back again later to revisit the site. I used Purpose Soap (liquid and bar soap) for decades and they changed the formula about a year ago. Luckily I had stocked up on the bars awhile ago and still using them for now.
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I have worked with some people who are sensitive to various ingredients and created soaps that they can use. If the soaps that you are using have the ingredients listed save the label or write down the ingredients and I could try to create a similar product if you would like. The soaps do take about 6 weeks to cure so I would need some notice for special orders. Keep in touch and let me know if you have any question.
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I’m sorry I meant to write you back yesterday after I read this last post. I was swamped at work and when I got finished with my project, I was on the last paragraph when the power went out at work (I work from home). I didn’t know if it was a power issue due to all the high winds or a problem with the computer system and my boss had left earlier, so I was scrambling around and did not get back to you. I will find out the ingredients Ruth and believe it or now, I saved one of the good boxes that were from the “Purpose” bars from years ago and wanted to compare it against the “Purpose” wash that I recently bought to find the offensive ingredient. When I Googled reviews after my hands got red and raw within a few days of using it, I found review on Amazon by people saying the same thing – they changed the formula. I bought several soaps, none of which worked, and since I had the “Purpose” bars, I just let it go for now. A friend of mine told me she was using a soap made from honey and goat’s milk. Her mom passed away and had several boxes of these hand-milled soaps and my friend just brought them home and began using them. I will find out the offensive ingredient and contact you on your site or via e-mail, okay?
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Hi 🙂
I hope you don’t mind me reaching out in a comment — I couldn’t find a way to contact you privately (you can always delete this comment…)
I noticed that your Gravatar doesn’t link to your blog. This makes it more difficult for others to find you. Please take a look at my blog post linked below, which explains the easy steps you can take to fix this 🙂
https://wibble.blog/2018/02/27/using-gravatar-to-build-traffic/
Happy blogging!
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Thank you very much – I don’t mind at all learning new things to enhance the blog or otherwise … never too old to learn new things in my opinion. You are right, I never did anything with it … in fact when I first set up my blog in February 2013, I did just as simple of a theme as I could and not too many bells and whistles. I waited five years before I even tweaked the site and added some doo dads and a picture gallery of my favorite Park and critter photos. I will follow your instructions and do as you suggested. Easy sounds good. Thanks so much for stepping in with the suggestion. I’m horribly late arriving here today. We had a humdinger of a storm that went on for hours. 🙂
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Your comment about the storm makes me wonder whether you’re apologising being ‘late’ to respond to my comment. If so, you remind me of my mother, who is wont to send me an email and then ask me five minutes later — even when she knows I haven’t been on my computer (I don’t have a dumbphone) — whether I’ve ‘got her email yet’.
Ah, the marvels of asynchronous communication! I think the longest delay in one of my responses to a comment on my blog was about five years — and the recipient responded as though the break had never happened; which is in my humble opinion just how it ought to be. What’s the rush?
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That’s right “where’s the house on fire?” as that expression goes. But in this case it was not just a comment, but a suggestion that would behoove me to take some action, and I appreciated it, so did not want to be rude. ‘Tis my nice Canadian upbringing kicking in. Used to have to curtsy when I met adults when I was knee high to a grasshopper. Kids today would fall over laughing at that scenario.
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Thanks again and I just updated my Gravatar thanks to you … I guess I need to leave my “About” as liked by me (even though people will think I am struck on myself, but hey … we creative types take liberties by putting our stuff out there for the world to see to begin with). 🙂 I have also started following you as well. Thanks for the tip – I should have learned some of these basic principles from the “get go” and just wanted to get the blog set up and start writing and never fine-tuned it at the outset. I just read your other “hot-to” post but will not link to Facebook or Twitter. I really only follow Twitter for the news and weather and don’t post or retweet and my Facebook settings are very high and I don’t have anyone posting on my Wall, even me – only I can see it. Many of my Facebook friends (and I don’t have that many believe me) don’t know that I write a blog so I’ve never publicized it through Facebook. Wish I knew your name – didn’t see it while tooling around your site and apologize in advance if I missed it.
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I can confirm that you’ve now got your Gravatar set up correctly so that others can find you more easily from ‘likes’ you leave on others’ pages. Well done!
About my name: it’s deliberately obfuscated as I, like you, like to keep some things private. However, it’s easy enough to find (if, for instance, you know or can guess my Twitter account name) so, since I know your name — assuming it’s not a big fib — I’ll admit that my name is Colin. Please to meet you, Linda!
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My boss is a wordsmith and he loves new and complicated words and phrases. When he and his two younger brothers were growing up in Saginaw, Michigan, their father, an attorney, made them study one page of the “Oxford Engish Dictionary” each day. I somehow think that you know what the set of “OED” looks like, and if not – each letter of the alphabet has its own oversized volume, with the exception of X, Y & Z which are combined into one volume. The father would quiz the boys on the page of words.
So he amassed a good vocabulary and has collected unusual or sometimes antiquated words and phrases over the years – it is a hobby with him. You would like “Evan Morris – Word Detective” which was an e-mail newsletter I got a subscription to as a gift for my boss many years ago. It is a wealth of words and phrases. Unfortunately the author does not write much any more.
He has been ill for quite some time, but if you go to his website, on the left side you will see archive info and you can search for a word or phrase there as well: http://www.word-detective.com/
Pleased to meet you Colin. Linda is my real name, but on Twitter my moniker is:
Walkin’ woman@oldshoeleather
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I’m somewhat obliged to mention my favourite word at this point (which the Word Detective doesn’t know about) — it’s ‘phlyarologist’.
Though I don’t go there very often, I’ve signed up to follow you on Twitter 🙂
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Shame on Mr. Morris – that is a great word and I will use it on my boss one day. Thanks for following me on Twitter Colin and I have followed you back. I really don’t have much activity on there either … have met a few walkers through following a heart-healthy site and a few walking sites.
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*pleased* … curse these metal fingers (as C3PO might say).
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… as for liking your own page; if we can’t love ourselves, what chance do we have of loving others? (In truth I wouldn’t have noticed, to me your Gravatar is buried amongst the others — though I think to you it probably appears at the front of the line, as mine always does, for me). Perception is an intriguing topic, don’t you think?
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That is true – you have to think highly of yourself in case others don’t. 🙂 Yes, I noticed it was right up front … gulp … as people say “what was she thinking?” Perception is interesting – we care too much what the other person is thinking.
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Dear Colin,
Fancy meeting you here too! Happy Easter to you!
Dear Linda,
I have left you a very long comment at Diane’s post about Peeps Easter Cake, where you can read my conversations with her. We seem to have got into a three-way conversation there. I also mentioned there that I once studied advanced music theory with Dr Gail Schaub at the tertiary level and wonder whether you know of him, considering that you have the same surname.
I have an aunty who lives in Michigan with her husband.
May you find April very much to your liking and highly conducive to your walking, writing, reading, thinking and blogging whatever topics that take your aesthetic and intellectual fancy!
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Thank you Sound Eagle.
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Joyeuses Pâques! 🙂
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Thank you for following my blog. I really appreciate it. Have a great week.
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You too Bryan – brrr out there this morning. Must dig out a few more clothes before heading out for my dentist appointment.
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And thank you Bryan for following my blog as well. – Linda
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There is an Old Hymn that describes your Blog. “For the Beauty of the Earth”. All that you put to photos are strong examples of the Earth’s Beauty. Even your examples of “manmade” are examples of all there is. I decided to follow you as you will bring visual Joy to my life. Keep up the Great work.
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Thank you very much for your kind words – it is my belief that nature makes us softer and kinder people and I hope that never changes.
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I am glad that I found you.
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Thank you.
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You are Welcome
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You have a lovely blog here, Linda. Glad I stumbled across it. Good work/play.
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Thanks Nick – I am glad you stumbled across it and I just hopped onto your blog and read the post about witches knickers – made me smile.
I have also followed you back. – Linda
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Lisa, I work for the Henry Ford College Office of Marketing & Communications. We would like to interview you for our alumni publication. Can you please get in touch with me? Thank you.
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Hi Kurt – thank you for this message. I will be in touch with you. – Linda
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I love this concept. I look forward to taking a walk with you.
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Thank you Lisa. I hope I don’t disappoint. I just peeked at our weather forecast and here in SE Michigan it said “heavy snow in 61 minutes” – that is a little insulting isn’t it? Although I have not put my hiking snow boots away yet, I’d rather not drag ’em out again!
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Goodness. It was a balmy breezy 81 here today and will scoop down to 60 tomorrow and through the weekend before warming back up. Is it mean if me to tell you that? Funny. We wished for enough snow for a snowman and never got it all winter. Enjoy that beautiful white stuff once more.
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No – it is okay and ours will just melt away overnight, not from warm temps, but the rain. We had my kind of Winter, although strangely enough they had predicted a lot of snow and cold weather. All the meteorologists were predicting that in early October and when we had a 8.8-inch snowfall on Veteran’s Day, Michiganders held their collective breaths. But it was gone in about 10 days and then we had a very mild Winter, with very little snow.
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Ten days before it was gone. Ha. I wrote a blog once about how my broom is our snow blower.
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Oh Lisa – I need to be your next-door neighbor. I have never been a fan of snow. I hate to drive in it but that is because I took the bus to my job in downtown Detroit via the bus. I just walked to the end of the street, left the car in the garage, so I never honed my Winter driving skills.
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Don’t get me started on driving here. We have very little in road clearing equipment so it’s like bumper cars on ice. Hope ya’ll warm up soon.
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A fellow blogger from Oregon says they have the same problem and lots of traffic and nothing to clear away snow – luckily she and her husband are retired so they stay home.
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We stay home as well. The world closes down.
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It is best as we await Phase 2.
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Thoroughly enjoyed your blog Linda. I was looking for information on a butterfly I had found, and your link popped up in Google. I look forward to coming back often.
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I have rescued you from the SPAM filter Denise. I’m glad you discovered me by Googling for info on a butterfly. I hope you found the info on your butterfly too! Back in 2010 I made a butterfly garden in the backyard and it was fun to create and I got several types of local butterflies and enjoyed it. Then we had the first Polar Vortex in early 2014 and it wiped out my butterfly bushes and my perennial garden which I had planted in 1985. I was discouraged and did not replant. I think I have had the last butterfly posts of the season recently because we are even colder weather than Virginia (except this weekend … it will be like Summer) and I think our butterflies have gone South.
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Hello— I just read your comment re “WHW.” Thank you for reaching out. Feel free to message me, Info@seasonsofparenting.com.
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You’re welcome – at first I had just Googled and found your site, then plugged in my site to reply via WordPress. I did not get an answer to my last e-mail either. I have noted your address and will let you know if I hear anything. – Linda
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Thank you. Yes, please do. I will too. (I did contact WP and they wouldn’t share anything. )
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This is Mary Rook’s e-mail address from her site … I don’t know if the comments which she would have made on our sites would still show up and display her e-mail address since her site has been deleted. Maybe you want to try sending an e-mail. I did not get a failed mail when I used this address below: thewhitehairedweaver@gmail.com
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Linda, thanks for posting such an open about page. I love it when people are honest about their names and what they do or did do. It makes people real. I’m so glad that I’ve met you, and I look forward to getting better acquainted in 2021. 🙂
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Thank you Marsha – I wanted to be honest. I have used my own name, but don’t have a current picture and I kind of like that picture I do use, as it matches the header image on the blog. I often use old photos of me through the years … scanning them in back in 2017 was a bit tedious, but I’ve had fun adding those sometimes vintage shots to different blog posts along the way. I’m glad to have met you too Marsha – I’m sure we’ll be interacting more in 2021.
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Hi Linda, I get frustrated when I don’t know someone’s name and I can’t find it anywhere on their blog, don’t you? For hobby bloggers, the whole experience of blogging is connecting on a personal basis. Names and stories are what separate us from scammers and marketers. I understand when new bloggers are nervous about using their real names, and there is a concern for people finding out too much about us. I think we all need to be vigilant with our personal information, but there are other ways to do that. However, pictures are another matter. I love Bitmoji, and some people use it exclusively. I think it adds flavor and personality to our posts over other emoticons. I enjoy taking pictures, once every 20,000 or so, there is a good one of me I can use. 🙂
Have a great New Year, Linda. Check out #WQWWC tomorrow, if you are in the mood for writing a post this week. The subject will be New Beginnings.
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I do hate it and have asked two bloggers within the last few months what their names were … they kept commenting on my posts and there was nowhere on their respective blogs that I could find their names. I do talk about myself a lot in that my blog is mostly about where I go on my walks, and I stray to some family stuff from back in the day and use old pictures then. Also, my blog is carried in the local newspaper (in their online Community Blogging page), so I am mindful of that as well. I will look again at that portion of your site, but I have kept up with doing a Wordless Wednesday post since March and am going to try to keep doing it as long as I can. Starting next week, I only intend to post twice a week, likely Monday and Wednesday. It kills me to do that as I do enjoy writing and pairing up the photos, but I am constantly behind here so I’m going to do less posts for a while. I have all the photos to sort thru and amazingly, I took another 100 or so more photos last weekend and yesterday. I may never catch up!
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Linda, lovely to meet you in this wonderful community of WP! I love your blog title and its aims and look forward to perusing your posts!
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Thank you Annika – it was nice meeting you as well courtesy of Yvette’s interview. I am glad you like the blog title. When I was creating my blog, I wondered if I would have enough to sustain a blog just about walking, so I gave myself a little “wiggle room” to add in some other topics from time to time.
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Hi Linda! I tried to find a contact email for you on your page but couldn’t locate it (truthfully, I don’t have one either) but wondering if you would be interested in being featured on my blogger spotlight series. If so, please email me for more info. 🙂 If not, no hard feelings! 🙂
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Feel free to delete that comment since it’s just me trying to get in touch 🙂
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Thank you again Jen.
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Hi Jen – I don’t have a contact email on my blog. I feel better knowing you don’t have one either as I figured I was the only one. 🙂 I need to learn how to do it and I believe it was because it needs a plug-in and I’ve not done any plug-ins on my blog. Yes, I would be interested in being featured in your blogger spotlight series. I did one for Yvette Prior at Prior House, who does interviews with fellow bloggers and it was fun. I have sent a message to you at your e-mail address. Thank you for asking me.
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Hi
I visited your site. I read you biography. We’ll do you doing. Beautiful written you blog. Nice experience have to you. I like you post.
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Thank you for visiting and reading my biography Rajkkhoja. I never got to use my degree, but I am having fun with this blog, writing posts, taking lots of photos and interacting with nice people like you.
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Most welcome to you! 👍
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