I visited Jan's blog, Nexus. I loved her post about tidying up the back porch for spring/summer. Great looking recipe for bean soup, and lots of beautiful photographs woven through her posts.

Makes me long, just a little harder, for spring.

Check it out:

http://connectere.wordpress.com/ 

I visited Beth Lowe's lovely blog The Pine Meadow Pond Journal

then I trekked over to Cara Lopez Lee's blog for adventurous women Girls Trek too

I then enjoyed browsing Deborah Goldstein's very entertaining Peaches and Coconuts

How interesting that two of my newest friends on She Writes have blogs of a spiritual nature:

• Candy Fite's Be the Tree Yoga (she also maintains a delightful blog on her writing life -- C. F. Write)
• Katherine Jenkins's Lessons from the Monk I Married

I visited C.M. Villani's post: When it rains it pours http://ning.it/ikr4H4

It made me cry - in a good way.  I didn't realize I needed a hub so badly.  I think everyone should go for a hug and a smile!

Meryl Jaffe

http://departingthetext.blogspot.com

on the Shewriter blog hop, I came across this blog, which wins for title I most wish I'd thought of:

[Insert suitably snappy title here...]

:-)

I've been visiting lots of blogs but remiss about posting about them here. I did have such a lovely time visiting around on the group blog hop. Thinking of organizing same again, but maybe not till things settle down from new novel launch.

But today I visited Susan Orlean's Free Range at the New Yorker. Read about the original Borders which she and I must have been shopping in around the same time. I still have bookmark from when it was the only Borders anywhere.

:-)

laughing at this, Elizabeth! This is where I am at the moment, too.

I'm having technology issues, so I didn't get to read all that I wanted to, but... I got to check out fellow SheWriter's blog, My Sista's Voice.... fun read. :-)

Stacey