Bluestocking: April 2010

07 April 2010

HamsterWheel.com: Where You'll Find Colleen's Wordsmithing These Digital Days

This Bluestocking Blog celebrated a one-year anniversary recently, tho' I'm directing most of my efforts now to other avenues. I'll still post here from time to time, but

please drop by the following sites for a visit. I'd love to hear from you, so please do leave a comment, question, concern or even just an emoticon. =)

Just click on any of the colored links to travel to my main digital domains.

• MY NEW COMPANY:

Friday Jones Publishing. This beautiful site includes a lot of background information about my novels, some beautiful William Morris/Arts & Crafts images, a hearty blog, photographs of stained glass, and bios of my collaborators--the Friday Jones Players.

• MY FIRST NOVEL: Friday Jones Publishing will release my first novel, GLASS HALO, which has its own website: GlassHaloNovel.com in addition to information found on FridayJonesPublishing.com. We're working like Friday dogs to get the novel on the press this month.

• MY EXAMINER.COM PAGE: I'm also semi-buried in my Denver Flower & Gardening Examiner page for Examiner.com where you'll find almost 500 green-thumb bluestocking posts and some gorgeous photography of my gardens and gardens I encounter in my travels or on assignments. This page includes flower-inspired fashion, practical tips, literary quotes, updates on events, and more.

• FACEBOOK: I went kicking and screaming into Facebook, dragged in by my young staff. Now I'm hooked. I post pretty much daily both on my own personal page--Colleen Smith--and on the Friday Jones Publishing fan page. The Friday Jones Publishing Facebook page includes posts about books, dogs, stained glass and more.

• THE DENVER POST: I'm writing books features (Click here for my story on Elizabeth Gilbert, author or EAT, PRAY, LOVE) for The Sunday Denver Post and gardening pieces for the Grow section in The Denver Post on Fridays. (Click here for my most recent feature on Henry Moore's sculpture at Denver Botanic Gardens.) If you're not in Denver, you might Google denverpost.com or just search "Denver Post by Colleen Smith." I've contributed to the Post for 15 years, but not all my articles are digitally archived.

• I'm also writing music reviews for Reverb, The Denver Post's music blog. (Click here for my review of Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers.)

• TWITTER: I even Tweet! I used to be wagyourtale--the registered trademark of Friday Jones Publishing. But now you can follow me at FJPublishing.

• Or look me up on LinkedIn!

And now you know why I call my life HamsterWheel.com.

Thanks for reading. And for writing: I'd love to hear from you.

BLUESTOCKING BLOG: COLORFUL POSTS ON A SPECTRUM OF TOPICS

Welcome to BLUESTOCKING BLOG, where you'll find colorful posts on a wide variety of topics: yoga (Iyengar, Bikram, and Baron Baptiste Power Vinyasa), books, music, alpine skiing, gardening, food, memoir, design, nature, art and architecture, travel, ecojustice, and good news of general interest. I'll post everything from in-the-moment musings to articles and essays I've published in the mainstream media. I'm eager to join the blogosphere; and I hope you will take a moment to sign up as a Bluesox Reader or join the conversation by leaving a comment. Thank you for visiting.
Fare thee well!

Bluestocking Departments

COLORADO COLLEEN = Drawing from a series titled "The Nature of...," which I wrote for a couple of years, these posts comment on wildlife, weather, landscapes, minerals, plants; and also skiing in the state of Colorado in the U.S.A.

THE WRITTEN WORD = Interviews with authors, book recommendations, book art, poetry, literary quotes.

TREBLE CLEF = Concert reviews, tributes to recording artists, song lyrics, upcoming concerts, mathematical music of the spheres—all within a vast, eclectic musical palette.

NAMASTE’ = I’m in my 16th year of practicing hatha yoga. I began with 11-12 years of Iyengar yoga, and even taught for a couple of years, though I was not certified. I’m in my 5th year as a Bikram and Baron Baptiste Power Vinyasa practitioner. I’ve completed two 30-day challenges (30 classes in 30 days); and in 2007, my yoga school named me Yogini of the Month—I was one of only two women who were so designated.

THE ARTS = Artist profiles, exhibitions, galleries, films. (I’ve written about art most of my career.)

WANDERLUST = Travel memoir, tips, (I have a couple of fairly well stamped passports, but in recent years, I’ve been getting around the United States.)

AND ECOJUSTICE FOR ALL = Environmental information, prophets, and products.

FURTHER EVIDENCE OF THE RENAISSANCE AFOOT = Upbeat, positive, quirky, quintessential tidbits—the softer side of hard news.

WELL BEING = Personal experience and recommendations of Osteopathy, Chinese medicine, integrative and alternative medicine and modalities.

IN MEMORIAM = Tributes to family, friends, artists who have passed over.

GARDEN GATE = I'm the Denver Flower and Gardening examiner at Examiner.com.

YUM = Food memoir, recipes, restaurant tips. (One of my first writing jobs in Denver, in the mid-80s, was doing restaurant reviews for TravelHost Magazine.)

BUNGALOW = Drawing from a series titled "Creature Comforts," which I wrote for a couple of years, these posts address design, homemaking, Craftsman style.

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07 April 2010

HamsterWheel.com: Where You'll Find Colleen's Wordsmithing These Digital Days

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