Barbara's Meanderings

I'm posting late for Postcard Friendship Friday and again this isn't really a postcard, but wouldn't it make a good one? I found this picture on my own story when it was posted on Moondance ezine. So I'm linking you to it. It's called "Out on a Ledge". You'll have to read it to see why they chose this illustration for that story.:)

Now for some great news!!! This blog has won an award. It's the "Makes My Heart Smile Award" given to me by my fellow blogger and new friend, Shirley from Luxury Haven. I'm very pleased and honored to have won this award given to her by Rosidah of Music of My Life also a member of the Women's Blogger Directory. It was very sweet of Shirley to give it to me and I thank her so much!!

There are rules to this award:

I'd love to give it to Shirley, but she already has it.:) I have read so many excellent blogs and here are the ones that make me smile. This is very difficult, because I like so many blogs for different reasons. Since I can only pick 10 I hope you all understand how I'd love to give it to almost everyone. But here goes:

Until the next time. I wish I could give it to everyone whose blog makes me smile. But please, if you got an award spread it around to your own favorites according to the rules.:)

I will post my poem for today in a separate post immediately following this one.

Here it is and this is a very short blog, because I have to sleep sometimes and I'm tired from everything today. Big thanks to Shirley from Luxury Haven who sent me a fantastic recipe for chicken. You must go there and get it.:)

Also, I will be interviewing Katie Hines on Thursday, April 9th and we will be discussing her new children's book, Guardian, which is coming out in June. Here is some of her information.

The prompt from Poetic Asides with Robert Brewer:

"Prompt #1: I want you to write a clean poem. Take this however you wish. Clean language, clean subject matter, or cleaning the dishes. Of course, some twisted few will automatically link "cleaning" with hired hitmen. That's okay, as long as your poem is somehow linked to clean."

Prompt #1 - Clean

The Meeting – Her Side

A statue come to life.
A clothed David alive in
Starbucks.
Tee shirt clinging to his
muscled chest

I held my breath
hoping he would glance
my way. And he did
Piercing blue eyes shot
like an arrow into my heart
Fascinating scenarios crept
into my head as I wished I were
unattached. Then I realized
I had stepped on his toe.
Glancing into that chiseled
face I saw a smile that
promised more.
copyright 2009 by Barbara Ehrentreu

Until the next time, Happy Passover to everyone who celebrates it. Thank you to my readers and hope that you will comment on this. Remember, there is another poem that I am not posting that I will let some people see if they ask. :)

Today I promised that I was going to highlight a new blog. It is very difficult, because there are so many fabulous blogs. As I mentioned I am a member of the women's blogger directory.

The blog I am highlighting today is Welcome to Shirley'sLuxury Haven. Shirley lives in Singapore and she updates us constantly on new and exciting things to do in that area. I wish I lived there, because she makes everything look so good!!! Today's post is about a new resort there, Sentosa. The photo shows a picture of this resort! Don't you want to get on a plane and go

there?

She tells us also about concerts and gives great recipes for asian food. I love the animated slide show she has of all the dishes she features. All you need to do is click on the food and you get a larger picture of the dish on her other webpage. There you can subscribe and make your own slides to show on the website using the slide show she has there. Very cool!!!

But the main reason I like this blog is that she talks about fashion as well and in one of her posts she concentrated on how to tell a fake handbag from a real one. This is a serious problem when there are so many counterfeit bags out there. I was impressed by the detail she went into to show us the real thing!

I also love the background color of her blog - pink, and I look forward to reading each post. She describes herself as someone who is: Passionate about food, crazy over shopping, eccentric about travel, is in a frenzy over Hello Kitty! and Cooking's my passion. You can see her profile picture on top says it all.:)

So Shirley, from Welcome to Shirley's Luxury Haven, I am highlighting your blog and look forward to reading more interesting and unusual posts.:)

Tomorrow's guest author is Tim Hooker who is the author of three books and

who is also the editor of his blog Sushi Tuesday. During the last couple of days I have gotten to know a little bit about Tim and I think you will enjoy this interview very much!

Tim is giving away a copy of his book, Rocket Man as a thank you to one lucky person who either comments or asks a question. The winner will be announced as soon as all comments are in to the post. We will be taking comments on this post through Friday night. So please stop by and leave a comment. You could be the winner!!!! In the meantime go and see Tim's blog, Sushi Tuesday and read his bio.

Until next time, I'm really looking forward to our second guest author blogger, Tim Hooker. Please join us and maybe you will win the book give away contest!! Thank you to all my readers. Your comments warm my heart!!:)