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

    … on ambient people

    A few weeks ago, I ran across an internet meme/comic that went something like this: A woman bursts into a room, clearly ecstatic, and... Read More

    Tags: musings, just ponderin', COVID-19, isolation, breakfast sounds, favorite sounds, spring peepers

  • Article Thumbnail

    Think A Little

    … on serendhoppity

    A few weeks ago, I got a call from a very important Niece who happens to be the Mom of two very important Practice... Read More

    Tags: easter bunny, easter candy hunting, musings, family, Easter, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', maine blogger, maine photographer, what's important

  • Article Thumbnail

    Think A Little

    … on gatherings (floral and faunal)

    This morning I went outside to perform my very first garden chore of the season. I dug into the Potting-slash-Writing Room tool drawer, selecting... Read More

    Tags: covid, post quarantine, musings, maine, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', spring, maine blogger, maine photographer, hellebore, quarantine

  • Article Thumbnail

    Think A Little

    … on kindnesses with tresses

    It all started with a man bun. Well, to be fair, it started pre man bun. Half-Kid Jack¹ had graduated college (yay!), gotten a... Read More

    Tags: a good day, musings, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', man bun, hair donation, locks of love, wigs for kids, pantene beautiful lengths

  • Article Thumbnail

    Think A Little

    … on not waiting for the tripod

    The other night the snow was still falling and landing softly on all the other flakes that had already bedded down. I’d been looking... Read More

    Tags: barn, musings, maine, photography, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', snow, winter in maine, winter in new england

  • Article Thumbnail

    Think A Little

    … on a decade of service

    Today is HRH The Princess Bunny Blaze’s tenth birthday. I was not there on the day of her birth. But I was there, three... Read More

    Tags: winter in maine, old dog, musings, german shepherd, maine, photography, old dogs, just ponderin'

  • Article Thumbnail

    Think A Little

    … on boat and people stories

    Right now and about an hour’s drive northeast of here, in the not-quite freezing waters of the Atlantic, pieces of a special wooden boat... Read More

    Tags: maine photographer, the apprenticeshop, lobster boat, wooden boats, boat building, musings, just ponderin', maine blogger

  • Article Thumbnail

    Think A Little

    … on quiet glee

    Fresh scone… raspberry jam… clotted cream. Free formed pottery plate, crystalized glaze, warm and deep… knife shared with friends and family often, over many... Read More

    Tags: maine photographer, snow day, scones, musings, just ponderin', winter in maine, maine blogger

  • Article Thumbnail

    Cry A Little

    … on the who outside the bathroom door

    Late this morning, I was in the bathroom with, I’m ashamed to say, my phone, when I saw the screen light up with a... Read More

    Tags: parenting, just ponderin', adult children, maine blogger, mothers and daughters, lisa dingle, mothers and sons, musings, family, secrets to happiness

  • Article Thumbnail

    Think A Little

    … on who transcended who

    In the midst of a holiday season that sprinkled warmth and joy with pandemical particulates in each of our peripheral visions… A text. Two... Read More

    Tags: secrets to happiness, just ponderin', maine birds, maine blogger, snowy owl, musings, maine, photography

  • Article Thumbnail

    Laugh A Little

    … on helping(ish) miss judy

    So. Those of you who have been reading for a while might remember my summer neighbor, Miss Judy, especially from a post I called,... Read More

    Tags: musings, just ponderin', secrets of happiness, maine christmas, christmastime

  • Article Thumbnail

    Think A Little

    … on yours, mine, and ours

    I have said (well, typed), more than once on these pages, that no one – not me or you or that guy over there... Read More

    Tags: musings, photography, secrets to happiness, maine blogger, maine photography, justponderin', 2020, sonder, John Koenig

  • ←
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • …
  • 45
  • 46
  • 47
  • →
Dingle-ism graphic

Should People

You know them. They know how things “should” be. What you “should” say, and do and wear and eat and and and and and (and they give me a hive).

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 3,958 other subscribers

WordPress blogger? You can follow here.

contact: lisadingle@justponderin.com

social:

  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • Instagram

©2023 just ponderin’