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Still shining the spotlight on my blogging friend, silken, so I’d like to turn to her blog called Places to Go.  This is a unique sort of travel blog because silken doesn’t just talk about places she’s been, but also about places she hasn’t been, but would like to go.  I think that’s pretty clever, really!

Just look here what she says about Vienna, or here about Avebury.  You’ll find out about all sorts of places when you read through this blog.   I mean, I never even heard of the Museum of Hoaxes till I read about it on her blog.

Here, you can also find out about movies that talk about specific places, like what you see in her entry on an arctic tale.  (I think there’s a theme emerging — icebergs????)

Silken has a curious mind, one that would like to see and know more about this big world.  In this blog, that really shines through.

I’m continuing the process of turning the spotlight on my blogging friend, silken. She keeps a number of blogs, and I thought it would be fun to point you to them all.   When you first have a glance, you might think this one is a little different from the others I’ve spotlighted before in my posts.  And, really, you’d be right about that.

The blog at her spot called random activities is especially fun because it is kept not just by her, but by her son.  He posts some of his school assignments there. 

I’ve enjoyed his essays on The Human Brain (continued here, here, here, and here) and on basketball (again, continued here, here, here, and here).

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Isn’t amazing how all this technology can make the world seem a little smaller?

I’m continuing to turn the spotlight on one of my blogging buddies, silken.  In her blog A Few of My Favorite Things, you’ll find a series of top ten lists.  She talks about things she likes there.  She does get to do a lot of sponsored posts there, and I like her explanation of what is so good about blogging for money.

If you’d like to know more about silken, you’ll find all sorts of little details here, like her favorite things on stage, or what she likes about overseas travel.  You can even get some home remedies, like her throat coat.  It’s a really fun place to stop in and browse through.  Go on over and take a look.  And do tell silken that I said “hi” too.

   

There’s a blogger I’d like to turn a spotlight on for a little while.  Her name is silken, and she keeps a number of blogs.  I’m going to highlight all of them here over the next few post… at least all of them that I know of.

One of the fun ones she keeps is called Did You Know?  In this blog, you can find all sorts of little tidbits of information.  She comes up with all sorts of clever little things.

Take this one:  Did You Know What it Takes to be a Perfumer?   Or did you know that avacado oil is a good moisturizer?  That might not be something I would’ve ever asked, nor particularly wondered about.   But when she raises these things in her blog, I do find them interesting, and it gets my curiosity going. 

Or, maybe, street luging is something you’d like to know about?  If it isn’t something you’ve thought of before… has it got you curious now?

See, she covers it all!  Stop in and visit, and you can tell her I sent you.

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I am posting this that I put up at another of my blogs.  It highlights one of silken’s blogs, one kept by her daughter, and it has some posts that I think would be enjoyable to anyone who reads this site regularly… if anyone does that at all.

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Top Five Posts at Kidbits

5.  Favorite Series of Kids’ Books  (you’ll see, on this list, how much this blogger and I have in common…!)

4.  Top Ten Things About Going Back to School (and you know how I love my top ten, er… five, lists)

3.  A girl after my own heart!  She’s got a Death Acrostic on her site –  I love it!

2.  Reading a kid’s view of 9/11 and the World Trade Center is really a great thing, and so I like this post a lot

1.  Check here for ideas for Mother’s Day

 

I have been turning the spotlight on my blogging buddy, silken, at my other blog sites.  I’ve been talking about the excellent work she does in keeping up her little blogging empire that she has built up.  I’ll get around to highlighting all of them over here sometime, but I want to start with one that seems particularly relevant to this site. At her Rhyme Time blog, she posts cute rhymes, and they are often very entertaining.  I find myself getting a little laugh out of them all the time.

I keep 3 different blogs filled with rhymed poetry myself, as well as another full of acrostics, so I know that maintaining a fun, lighthearted poetry blog is not as easy as it sounds.  What seems to be play can get to be rather tough to maintain, some days.  But silken does it very well.  Whether writing about Fish Camp or about rainy days, you can see that silken is having a good time doing it. 

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And then I found before me a mighty task

When the reply “Look it up if you want to know”

Came to me, telling me where I should go

If I wanted to find out what the words meant

And, to be honest, I’m quite glad I was sent

Because knowing that one refers to oils and fats

And the other gets under your skin (and that’s 

Something of a pun, ain’t it cute?

And no, I’m not talking about the word’s root)

The dictionary is one of the most useful tools

For those of us who don’t like to look like fools