Nadine Feldman, Author

celebrating strong female characters and whatever else strikes my fancy

Zen Cherry

Today It’s All About Other Bloggers!

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This morning we’re off to beautiful Victoria, B.C., where I hope we will have tea at the Empress! Yum! We will drive to Port Angeles and take the ferry over. It will be a lovely break from all the house hunting (we may have found another one, but I won’t say more for now). In the meantime, it’s Thursday, so it’s my usual day to applaud other bloggers. Today, though, as part of accepting the recent blog award from Jodi Aman, I won’t just pick one! Nope, today I get the pleasure of mentioning several of my favorites. I’ve mentioned some of these before, but they bear repeating.

By the way, Jodi not only has a great blog, but has also shared a wonderful list of bloggers. I recommend that you take a peek at Heal Now and Forever if you haven’t yet!

Without further ado, here are some, though not all, of my faves:

Zencherry – The Zen Corner – For making me laugh and recalling the warmth and spirit of Erma Bombeck.

Over 50 and Happy  – Nina Knox is such a joy, always positive and filled with effervescent life.

Totsymae – Totsymae has one of the most intriguing and original voices in the blogosphere today. She’s also one heck of an artist.

Presence of Magic – When you’re feeling down or discouraged, come here for a gentle, angelic lift.

From Agoraphobia to Zen – Marilyn Mendoza shares her honest struggle of living with agoraphobia. As someone who lives with an anxiety disorder, too, I relate to her struggles and applaud her triumphs.

GrrlGuide – Thought-provoking, interesting, meaty blog posts.

Writing and Living – Richard Hughes is not only a fine writer, but is a supporter and cheerleader for other writers as well. It’s been a pleasure to get to know his work these past few months.

Renovating Rita – A woman of resilience, intelligence, and grace. I can’t believe I haven’t mentioned her blog here before — sorry, Rita, a mention of you is way overdue!

Thus Spake the Hermudgeon – You’ll love the Hermudgeon as much as I do. She’s warm and generous, and has maintained her sense of humor despite a challenging cancer battle.

That’s more than seven, but I could just keep going. To my blogger friends, if you’re not listed here today, I’ll be back next week with more recommendations! Have a great weekend!

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.