Nadine Feldman, Author

celebrating strong female characters and whatever else strikes my fancy

The Zen Corner

Blog Recommendation of the Week

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I would like to thank Tina Fariss Barbour of Bringing Along OCD for nominating me for the Sunshine Blogger Award. Thanks, Tina! I had hoped to post the required elements this week (answering some questions and recommending other blogs for the award), but I have run out of time. So, for this week anyway, I will stick with the usual Thursday format by recommending one blog. I will try to get my act together for next week.

This week, I’m offering one of my favorites. I’ve recommended it before, but Zencherry’s The Zen Corner has upped her game in the humor department. Plus, (hopefully) I have a few more readers than when I last recommended it. Some things bear repeating!

Maureen Hovermale, the Zencherry herself, can find the silliness in everyday life, and her posts often make me laugh out loud. There is a consistent quality in her posts that make me look forward to them day after day. If I had an Erma Bombeck award to give, I would give it to Zencherry.

So, have a laugh!  Have a great weekend, and I’ll see you next week!

Blog Thursday: The Zen Corner

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I would like to take a moment to say RIP to Steve Jobs. 56 is just too young, too close to my own age. Being married to a software developer, I live in a house filled with geeky toys, many of them from Apple. I would be embarrassed, quite frankly, to list them all here, but this place looks like a small Apple store. So Steve, thanks for your ingenuity and vision. You will be missed.

Steve loved his work and reminded people to find work that they love as well. I’m fortunate to have done so as well, and even better, I am getting to know other women writers who share my passion for the written word. Since this is Thursday, I am thrilled to share another online friend with the rest of you!

Since we’re lightening up in October, I’m looking for blogs that don’t take themselves so seriously. Yes, I know that I can get pretty serious here at A Woman’s Nest, but I’m up for fun, too! Thankfully, I like to surround myself with funny people, which means I often take the “straight man” role. But who would Tommy Smothers be without brother Dick? Or am I dating myself again?

This week, I thought I would share the blog with the lofty and soothing name of  The Zen Corner. Not to worry, though, there’s plenty to chuckle about here. I bumped into Zen Corner blogger Zencherry on Libboo, a website where writers can collaborate with each other. We were both selected by another fellow writer, Liz Shaw, to take a look at a short story that Liz has been working on. We exchanged a few messages on the site, and I checked out her blog. I enjoy it so much that I want to share it with all of you guys!

Whether writing book reviews, posts about bad hair, or tales of life with cats, Zencherry puts quality time into her craft, and her blog posts make me smile. She offers intelligent, literate humor, and whenever I see a new blog in my e-mail inbox, I’m excited about what she has to say.

By the way, if you check the “about” page, she has a link to more of her writing on Libboo. I have not finished reading the book she has posted there, so I can’t officially endorse it, but if her blog is any indication, the book will be good, too.

Have a great day! I hope you’ll visit tomorrow for the next chapter of The Foreign Language of Friends.