Wendi and I had the chance to attend our first blogging conference, aptly titled The Bloggy Conference. Bloggers, particularly those who operate within the politics space, have been criticized as basically being people writing in their pajamas in their parents' living rooms or basements. That stereotype certainly was not on display at #BloggyCon16, which was held at the conference center at Cedar Point, not too shabby. I'd like to share five insights from the conference: 1. The Bloggy … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2016
Bloggy Conference Here I Come!
I started my blog over a year ago, but from the beginning my husband Bobby has been all in with me on it. That includes encouraging me to attend a blogging conference. He heard about the Bloggy Conference last fall (which was going to be at Cedar Point), and when tickets first went on sale, he bought them. So, since January we have had this weekend planned. We booked our hotel room at Hotel Breakers and then went about our blogging business. Now we are here and I am so excited. While I … [Read more...]
Osaka: Where Playing with Food is Acceptable
We probably have all been told at least once in our lives to stop playing with our food. I think parents get this phrase passed down from generation to generation. However, the old adage does not apply when your food becomes part of the entertainment. This would be the case if you visit Osaka Asian Restaurant. My husband, Bobby, and I went to the restaurant one Sunday after church this past summer. We met my sister, Randi, and her husband, Shaun there. We were joined by another family of … [Read more...]
Spending Part of the Day at the ‘Night of the Museum’
If this blog is about anything, it is about fun trips, tasty eats and good movies. My husband Bobby and I have started to look for ways we can visit movie locations, and the latest one is "Night of the Museum." The movie, starring Ben Stiller and some museum exhibits, was filmed, in part, in the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, across the street from Central Park and down the street from the building featured in "Ghostbusters." What I really liked about this movie is that … [Read more...]
The Memorials that Help Us Remember 9/11
The first and only time I saw the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center was in 1989, when I rode with my parents as they drove to JFK International Airport. Our purpose for the trip was to drop my sister, Sonni, and her husband, Grady off with their three children, Ashley, Justin and Stefan so they could fly to Madrid, Spain. Grady was being deployed there for his duty as an airman in the United States Air Force. We had never been to New York City and decided a way to kill some time with … [Read more...]