Just Ponderin' logo
     
  • Read
  • Stalk me
  • Sustainability
  • Dingle-isms
  • Contact me
search

read

  • view:
  • all posts
  • laugh a little
  • cry a little
  • think a little
  • wag a little
  • Article Thumbnail

    Think A Little

    … (shhh!) on the secret of close family and friends

    Acceptance. That’s it. Anything else gums up the works… probably not irreparably, but it can get pretty gummy. So, acceptance. I learned that a... Read More

    Tags: musings, family, friends, friendship

  • Article Thumbnail

    Laugh A Little

    … on journals and the phases of grief (for…journaling)

    The other day a friend said to me something I have heard many, many times in my life. She said, “Well, you are really... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, friends, comedy, humor, journaling

  • Article Thumbnail

    Laugh A Little

    … on a new irreverent thing. again.

    Beautiful right? Until you realize that First Born Mac and Number One Son Sam refer to that super tall evergreen tree as Isengard. Which... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, friends, comedy, humor, irreverence, thanksgiving, Christmas

  • Article Thumbnail

    Laugh A Little

    … on talkin’ the talk as we walk the walk

    Today I took a walk with a friend and there was talk along with it. I’m not gonna say ‘girl talk’ because I have... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, friends, girlfriends, comedy

  • Laugh A Little

    … on being a professional shepHerd(er)

    Okay, so sometimes when you become a professional photographer like I am (because, again, once someone asked if they could frame a photo from... Read More

    Tags: comedic writing, everyday life, friends, german shepherd, comedy, humor

  • Article Thumbnail

    Think A Little

    … on a morning farm

    Earlier this week, I visited friends at their New York farm. No, not New York City. I know, I know. When you are from... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, friends, gardens, comedy, poetry, humor, bedlam farm

  • Article Thumbnail

    Think A Little

    … on faith. and trust. and fairy dust.

     A little over five weeks ago, my friend had emergency open heart surgery. One day we were yakking on the phone about life, writing, and... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, friends, comedy, giving, Jon Katz

  • Article Thumbnail

    Cry A Little

    … on superheroes

    There’s a dog in my town. A good and silly boy. He belongs to a dear friend of mine. As a matter of fact, he... Read More

    Tags: musings, everyday life, friends

  • Article Thumbnail

    Think A Little

    … on mr. holland

    There is a house, across the cove from mine, on an island snuggled in the mid coast of Maine.  We, my nearly perfect husband... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, friends, maine

  • Article Thumbnail

    Laugh A Little

    … on best friends

    This is a shout out to all the ladies out there (Not all the single ladies, as that would require weird reversed jazz hands... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, family, friends, fiftieth birthday, girlfriends

  • Article Thumbnail

    Laugh A Little

    … on my fridge

    When we moved to the Disposable Shack in 2004, we were riding the wave of good economic times and not thinking too much about... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, everyday life, family, friends, home design

  • Laugh A Little

    … on coffee cups

    The other night we had a party. It was an all out hum dinger of a party too, and I hereby apologize to all... Read More

    Tags: musings, coffee cups, comedic writing, everyday life, family, friends

Dingle-ism graphic

Bathtub Mary

In Somerville, Massachusetts, where I spent the first five or six years of my life (it seems to be hotly debatable in my family), people often put statues of the Virgin Mary in their front yards. And she is ‘protected’ in a lovely arch of white.. which is often … and I am not kidding… a partially buried cast iron bathtub.

Read more Dingle-isms...

Join the bazillions of ponderers (okay, more like thousands (for real!)) by subscribing to the blog:

(I won’t share your address, I promise!)

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 3,929 other subscribers

WordPress blogger? You can follow here.

contact: lisadingle@justponderin.com

social:

  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • Instagram

©2021 just ponderin’