Beyond FIRST LINES: A Blog Meme

Madame Brice over at Pajama Gardener tagged me a few days ago for this nifty meme. Following are the first lines of the first posts of each month for 2007. My lesson after collecting these: I’m a stodgy reporter at heart:

January: My girls are fascinated with the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They’re convinced that if Dr. King had never been born, their lives would be very different. (OK I cheated, but I love that second line.)

February: Black History Month is upon us and I can’t help but feel discouraged, and not just because we celebrate famous African Americans during the shortest month of the year and pretend that’s enough. (An annual gripe.)

March: Thanks again to Matt at Empathy for his March 5 post, “A Promise,” and for this terrific photo. (I steal post ideas from Matt all the time! He’s such a sweetheart.)

April: Lulu.com has just released the print version of From Hollywood Experts and Published Authors: Words of Wisdom for Starving Artists, a collection that includes two of my essays. (Blatant self-promotion; so sue me.)

May: This post and its title were suggested by BlogCatalog, a blog directory that’s spreading the word about a very worthy cause, DonorsChoose. (Love that site, too.)

June: No posts (Three kids and no school! Woohoo!)

July: The not-so-lazy days of summer have taken over, an extension of the crazy-busy days of late spring. (More like manic.)

August: I’ve been reading like a maniac (see?) this summer, storing up ideas and images and concepts I’ll explore once the kids head back to school and I have longer stretches of free time. (Yeah, right!)

September: I’ve tried to keep my list of links at right limited to resources that celebrate diversity or promote tolerance or otherwise offer helpful insights to BEYOND Understanding visitors. (Yawn!)

October: Carleen Brice over at Pajama Gardener has posted an interview with Kim Reid, a fellow Denver writer and author of the newly released No Place Safe. (Carleen and Kim: two terrific local authors I met this year. Now THAT’s worth noting.)

November: My first trip to Hawaii was indeed a fantastic get-away with my husband, and it was followed this past weekend with a trip to Chicago to see my youngest sister, Kristen, and her family. (Again, yawn. You have to admit the photos of my nephew were cute beyond belief, though. Not that I’m biased or anything. That’s him in the sporty Santa suit, btw.)

December: My daughter Lauren and I spent this past Thursday evening holiday shopping at a Global Girlfriend Open House near our home south of Denver. (Another cute photo saves the day!)

Here’s to much more entertaining leads as 2008 unfolds. And more cute photos. And more posts. And more writing time that’s got nothing to do with blogging. And a cleaner more organized house, more balanced healthy meals for my family, more baking, more gardening, more field trips with the kids, more…. You get what I mean!