Welcome to the May 7, 2007 edition of THE THIRTEENER CARNIVAL. We’ve got some great reading for you today. If you would like to submit a post for next week’s carnival use the link to the right or the one at the end of the carnival. And if you would like to increase traffic to your blog, volunteer to host the carnival one week. It takes a little time to put it together, but it’s fun! Now, enjoy reading this week’s carnival entries.

Let’s get on with Thirteen Thirteeners
in no particular order

Thirteener # 1
Chicken Scratch shares her journey with connecting with her heritage after the loss of her mother. Deconstructing Ellas, Deconstructing Bloodlines.

How is it that now that Mama is gone that I feel disconnected from being Greek? My DNA remains the same but the intangible connection to my extended family - especially family that lives overseas or across Canada - has weakened.

Thirteener # 2
Write From Karen presents A Rough Ride posted at Write From Karen, saying, “Biking our guts out. *grin*” The boys getting grounded has some twists and turns but turns out to be a bonding experience for the family.

There are some pretty good life lessons in parenting in there as well.

Thirteener # 3
Jessica The Rock Chick presents Dirty Little Secrets posted at Life is RANTastic!.

Jessica gives us a good read about how surprising it might be when we judge a book by it’s cover. Things may not be what they appear and the dirty little secrets might not be kept by who we expect at all.

Thirteener # 4
Jill presents Mon cadavre exquis/ My sweet corpse posted at Jill the Acadian/Jill l’Acadienne.

This is a little game/poetry/story I post like two week ago on my other blog. Most of you know me for my TT on www.live-your-live-and-smile.blogspot.com. This other blog is more artistic and show up my roots.

So my sweet corpse is a story written by you, through comments … On your mark , get set go!

Thirteener # 5
Friday’s Child presents The Diary of a Tiny Baby posted at Friday’s Child. Friday’s Child posts the diary of a developing fetus. “This is also a post of last year’s but I think it is worth reading.”

Thirteener # 6
Dewey reviews the novel Einstein’s Dreams. Her review is at The Hidden Side of the Leaf. She calls the book more of a series of vignettes rather than a novel.

Each short chapter is a dream he has, on different nights, about time. Some of the concepts of time in the dreams have clear connections to relativity, but others are downright whimsical.

Thirteener # 7
Kristin presents The circus that is my town posted at Off the wall thoughts of a relatively sane person, saying, “A rant on why the town I live in isn’t moving forward.”

Kristin rants about the marketability of her town, but they chose to use these historical moments to market instead:

Needless to say, there are a lot of marketable points to MC that should be able to bring more business in. However, here is what the city uses to market itself: 1)the movie version of the musical The Music Man was filmed here. The man who wrote the musical, Meredith Willson, was born and raised in MC. The movie was filmed 50 some-odd years ago, and to be honest, I had never seen it until we moved out here. 2) In 1934, JD Dillinger robbed a bank in MC. I don’t know all the details surrounding this, but the historical information is all over the walls of the library. They are honestly contemplating a weekend festival to celebrate this event. Not sure how that would go down, but a witness to the robbery said recently in our newspaper, The Globe-Gazette, that he would support such a celebration.

Thirteener # 8
Planck’s Constant writes about a horrific death of a baby at the hands of her mother with Purple Ribbons in Bayonne. ‘Callous, stupid, and barbaric acts like this should not be happening in a civilized country.’

Thirteener # 9
Meg presents My Favorite Picture posted at Bad Homeschool Mom. A BEAUTIFUL picture and a touching post. Read it and I’m willing to bet that you will learn something.

The little boy in the photo above has the SZ form of Alpha 1. His little brother also has Alpha 1, but we don’t know which type, though we do know that so far he hasn’t been affected as seriously as Liam is *knock on wood*

It is wonderful and inspiring to read the writings of a person who knows and understands what really matters in life and how to ‘knock on wood’ even when things aren’t exactly like your would have chosen them to be.

Thirteener # 10
GP presents Nurturing Naturally posted at Fish Creek House - INNside Innkeeping, saying, “Whether it’s your business, your personal life, or your garden, nurturing is the key to nature”

From nurturing the horse that revitalizes and nurtures her to nurturing the plants that eventually grace her table and in return provide her with nutrition. GP enjoys and advises us on the cycles that are intrinsic in our relationships with nature.

Thirteener # 11
Kahri Lynn presents Our Peculiar Life: 100 Things about me posted at Our Peculiar Life. The title speaks for itself, an interesting list of who Kahri is! Thanks for sharing yourself with us Kahri!

Thirteener # 12
Amanda Harris presents Grammar and Punctuation posted at Make Money Online with The Blog World.

This is a blog full of really good advise on blogging. Here’s a gem she offers:

If you’re looking for a way to make your site a bit more popular, try reading it. I’ve noticed online that a lot of people don’t proof read their entries and they’re full of typos, spelling mistakes, grammar mistakes, and completely devoid of punctuation. No matter how good your design and content may be, if it can’t be read easily enough many people will simply give up.

While that seems obvious, I understand exactly what she is saying. I move on to another site if the writer makes me do all the work to understand the points being made. That’s just a taste of what Amanda offers. Read on ….

Thirteener # 13
Jenny presents Tips for getting little hands to help posted at the so called me. If you want to get some help in how to get your little ones to help out more around the house, you will want to read this!

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