Around St Blog's: September 2003 Archives

Happy Birthday to Bella, who turned TWO on Monday!

have you checked out Summa Mamas yet? "One fun, one granola, one old..." (although the "old" mama seems to be in the market for a more um descriptive sobriquet....)

Chirp hatched a year ago this week.

I do hope dear Steven doesn't mind my shamelessly copying so many of his category titles, but he comes up with such good ones!

I especially like "Commonplace Book." Steven is only the third person I've ever heard use that phrase. I first encountered it in college, in a little article in Victoria magazine. A commonplace book is basically a personal book of favorite quotations. The magazine featured books that were true works of art, decorated and illustrated by their owners. That kind of intimidated me from starting my own -- I would keep putting it off for when I had time to copy each entry in perfect Italic calligraphy, with appropriate illustrations. Meanwhile, I just kept sticking copies of poems I liked into a file folder (a folder I recently discovered I'd lost! ARRRRGH!) I finally started a new book the other day (one entry so far.)

Many people are comparing blogs to commonplace books, and I certainly see the similarities. But the humble notebook still has its advantages as well.....