tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post6372514577060432204..comments2024-03-29T06:18:44.326-04:00Comments on Jungle Red Writers: Just Begin by Barbara O'NealJungle Red Writershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16646429819267618412noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-48619314580584899662014-03-06T04:50:47.538-05:002014-03-06T04:50:47.538-05:00Linda,
I dream about the neat cubbyholes and shi...Linda, <br /><br />I dream about the neat cubbyholes and shiny floors. Will never happen, but for some reason I keep hoping!<br /><br />Love the poem.Maureen Harringtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499876353651763590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-92073457011087292072014-03-06T04:48:06.059-05:002014-03-06T04:48:06.059-05:00OK. That wasn't life-changing. I just felt bet...OK. That wasn't life-changing. I just felt better about myself.Maureen Harringtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499876353651763590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-5128635317269965972014-03-05T22:54:57.651-05:002014-03-05T22:54:57.651-05:00So the blogging magazine is a magazine? The old fa...So the blogging magazine is a magazine? The old fashioned kind?<br /><br />Life changing was posting photos on my Facebook page and having people ask me to sell them prints.<br />Maureen Harringtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499876353651763590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-741235186227428822014-03-05T18:39:18.005-05:002014-03-05T18:39:18.005-05:00Welcome, Barbara! Your new book sounds fabulous. C...Welcome, Barbara! Your new book sounds fabulous. Can't wait to read it. I love the story of how you got the idea for it.<br /><br />I'm a sucker for beautiful magazines and blogs, so I have to ration myself on them. When I get depressed, though, I go to the bookstore and grab all the house porn mags and just dream of having that well-organized, gorgeous perfection. Then I don't look at them again for a year or so because those mags can be deadly to anyone who hasn't got money. I wrote a poem about that.<br /><br />CLASS WAR IN THE MAGAZINES<br /><br />I trace fingers across the polished wood<br />and linen upholstery. The sun breathes<br />through extra-large extra windows,<br />reflects from lime walls,<br />and gathers into the lemons piled <br />in a great glass bowl.<br />Everywhere is order, precise and clean.<br />I breathe deeply, taking in<br />the relaxed, careful scent of money.<br />My eyes focus on the shiny floors<br />and neat cubbyholes,<br />bountiful arrangements of fresh<br />roses, lilies, peonies, and dahlias<br />in glass and ceramic vases<br />in every corner on every surface.<br />The smell of money is light and flowers.<br /><br />The toilet still running in the background,<br />I try to clean the broken tiles at the kitchen sink<br />and cover worn floors with handmade rugs.<br />The windows, cloudy with years, <br />permanently encased <br />in painted-over screens,<br />strain the light to a thin drizzle.<br />The smell of reality is something small<br />that died somewhere inside.<br />Linda Rodriguezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11913741596693442469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-56261584415075072722014-03-05T18:37:51.828-05:002014-03-05T18:37:51.828-05:00Sorry to be so slow answering...middle of the day ...Sorry to be so slow answering...middle of the day errands took ages! <br /><br />Kay, how lovely to hear that you've read AYCDB twice! I want to give you a big hug for that. <br /><br />Lots of Vanity Fair readers here. <br /><br />Deb, I visited a lavender farm in Oregon for research. Pure HEAVEN! It was not only beautiful and smelled fantastic, but I took about a thousand photos. Barbara O'Nealhttp://barbaraoneal.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-16307879405428393232014-03-05T18:11:06.098-05:002014-03-05T18:11:06.098-05:00A heads up to all who google the magazine Barbara ...A heads up to all who google the magazine Barbara mentioned. Some of us, including me, called it Artful Blogger, but if you look at the picture of the magazine Barbara posted, it is Artful Blogging. Both names actually come up as magazines, but it is Artful Blogging that we want if we want the one to which Barbara refers.Kathy Reelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17004247271452356577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-24240868560933938092014-03-05T17:25:46.947-05:002014-03-05T17:25:46.947-05:00I'd never think about a book about bloggers! ...I'd never think about a book about bloggers! It sounds really good, though. Thank you for sharing with us, Barbara.<br /><br />I'm in the midst of deciding to run for the State Legislature. Let me tell you, it's already turned my life upside down. One week left to jump in or not.Marianne in Mainenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-23064432357465679382014-03-05T17:15:14.111-05:002014-03-05T17:15:14.111-05:00I used to enjoy the August Redbook every year. It ...I used to enjoy the August Redbook every year. It was their short story issue. And Cosmo used to have fiction too, as did Good Housekeeping. Now I take Southern Living and Smithsonian. The boys read Guns and Ammo. I read so darn many books I don't have time for magazines. I recycle my Texas Highways to my parents; they send the Texas Monthly to me. So I guess I'm not too bad off.Pat Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-76576494383499612512014-03-05T16:26:02.148-05:002014-03-05T16:26:02.148-05:00I used to be a total fan of Town and Country. then...I used to be a total fan of Town and Country. then, a few years ago, I fell for all those teasing bargains they send through the mail and took out several woman's mags... then stopped when I caught on they were all the same!!!!! Thelma in Manhattan, a HUGE Fan of You J Rs.... Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-71811033552603673482014-03-05T13:41:49.365-05:002014-03-05T13:41:49.365-05:00PS Oh, Barbara, I got so carried away with lavende...PS Oh, Barbara, I got so carried away with lavender and magazines I forgot to answer the main question.<br /><br />Yes, I did something that was completely crazy and it ended up changing my life in ways I could never have imagined.<br /><br />I wrote a novel.Debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11519514786198185277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-91128980830199296922014-03-05T13:40:36.806-05:002014-03-05T13:40:36.806-05:00Hi there, Barbara and welcome! Your book sounds te...Hi there, Barbara and welcome! Your book sounds terrific. I admit I'm often wary of glossy magazines and their siren song of perfection, but the idea of someone who has her life turned upside-down by blogging -- that sounds like fun! Also, lavender.... Sigh....Susan Elia MacNealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00349842866995778987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-11413591221339034872014-03-05T13:39:25.574-05:002014-03-05T13:39:25.574-05:00Barbara, I loved this piece! (Must buy book!!!) An...Barbara, I loved this piece! (Must buy book!!!) And I had no idea there was a magazine called Artful Blogger. I'm going to look for it. I've discovered a blog recently that I love called Back to Her Roots. Cassie, the blogger, sounds like she would fit right into your story.<br /><br />And lavender. Ah. I adore it. I visited the Norfolk Lavender Farm in England once--a life time experience.<br /><br />I love magazines, too. I only subscribe to two, otherwise I'd be buried in them, but do occasionally give in to impulse at the supermarket, and love going to big bookstores where they carry the UK home magazines. Great story ideas there!Debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11519514786198185277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-9402222818518292822014-03-05T13:38:17.065-05:002014-03-05T13:38:17.065-05:00I don't know what happened to my long post I h...I don't know what happened to my long post I had typed out. The one that showed up is Debs' book coming out in September, and the only way I see that showing up is that I transferred it on my Reading 2014 list from March to September for new books coming out. Oh, well. I will try a shorter version of what I had typed.<br /><br />Barbara, I loved the reminders of magazines when I was growing up--Redbook, McCall's, Life, Ladies' Home Journal, and Reader's Digest. I still have some of the old Life ones. I, also, have a few women's magazines from the 1930's that my mother had saved. Very interesting. My magazine reading at home has lessened over the years, but I have had subscriptions to Southern Living, Oprah, Mental Floss, National Geographic, and This Old House. I do love to buy magazines when I travel on planes, visiting the news shops and picking up a Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, and People (for my lack of taste, gossip pick--lol).<br /><br />Blogging is something I've come to enjoy, and I have a reading blog called The Reading Room. It has been the impetus for me to start attending more national book events where I have met so many of my favorite authors, like the Jungle Reds. I need to pick the brains of Mark and Kristopher on increasing followers and kicking my blog up a notch. <br /><br />So, thanks for a great post, Barbara, and I am putting your book on my wish list immediately. I want to get to know those women you talk about.<br />Kathy Reelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17004247271452356577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-25934187383250851032014-03-05T13:24:03.505-05:002014-03-05T13:24:03.505-05:00To Dwell in Darkness by Deborah Crombie (March 25t...To Dwell in Darkness by Deborah Crombie (March 25th, 2014) Kathy Reelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17004247271452356577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-82689078039880110162014-03-05T12:33:29.100-05:002014-03-05T12:33:29.100-05:00okay okay I am having a fan girl moment here.
Bar...okay okay I am having a fan girl moment here.<br /><br />Barbara, I am a huge fan (you knew that). And I have read every word you have written and always want more. I have read an ARC (twice already) of "The All You Can Dream Buffet" and loved it to the moon and back. thank you for writing such lovely books.<br /><br />My magazine? Vanity Fair. Kaye Wilkinson Barley - Meanderings and Museshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07486129009717476920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-6498553104460965642014-03-05T10:51:33.966-05:002014-03-05T10:51:33.966-05:00What a fascinating blog today. I have to go out a...What a fascinating blog today. I have to go out and get something of yours to read, Barbara, right now!<br /><br />My grandmother always had Reader's Digest and I couldn't wait to get my hands on it (free online subscription when I bought a book recently). We had Redbook and Family Circle and Woman's Day and National Geographic occasionally.<br /><br />I love magazines but limit myself to a couple of different subscriptions a year and onsies for the rest. They don't stack up so much that way and I can experiment with whatever catches my eye.Grandma Cootiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10709540756822695170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-21524725798206115112014-03-05T10:20:32.039-05:002014-03-05T10:20:32.039-05:00I adore magazines! And troll new ones all the time...I adore magazines! And troll new ones all the time for ideas. So nice to see you here, Barbara! Can't wait to read the Buffet.Nancy Martinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-20934730160739343222014-03-05T10:12:42.820-05:002014-03-05T10:12:42.820-05:00Kim, here is my terrible secret: my local recyclin...Kim, here is my terrible secret: my local recycling company pays points every month, and I use them all to buy more magazine subscriptions! I do so love Bon Appetit, and will mourn Gourmet forever and ever. <br /><br />I sometimes don't get to them all, but well....there's the recycling bin, right? Shameful, I know, but I do find them so comforting. Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17948775380902570315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-7912386867080903102014-03-05T10:11:30.930-05:002014-03-05T10:11:30.930-05:00I wanted to be a magazine person. But I'd subs...I <b>wanted</b> to be a magazine person. But I'd subscribe, end up with piles of magazines I never read (because something else was always screaming for my attention), so I gave up the dream. But my grandparents had Readers Digest, and Redbook, and National Geographic, so I remember spending hours looking at all the pictures and daydreaming.<br /><br />Have I ever turned my life upside down in a good way? Hmm. Have to think about that.Liz Millironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04919409969263609919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-3267485665946431232014-03-05T10:10:18.390-05:002014-03-05T10:10:18.390-05:00Thanks for the warm welcome, everyone! I'm su...Thanks for the warm welcome, everyone! I'm such a fan of Jungle Red that it's a big treat to be invited to blog here. <br /><br />Hank it is funny--a magazine about blogging. And I laugh when I read the stories and look at the photos at how much simpler it would be to just go online. But I wouldn't find the same ones. <br /><br />And isn't ensorcelled a wonderful word? Thanks to Hallie and Jack. Barbara O'Nealhttp://barbaraoneal.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-92127203253636308242014-03-05T09:49:35.531-05:002014-03-05T09:49:35.531-05:00There's a blogging MAGAZINE?? What they won...There's a blogging MAGAZINE?? What they won't think of next...<br /><br />My magazine story--when I used to visit my grandma Minnie, she had Readers Digests. This is like--1962. She also had a typewriter, and I really wanted to learn to type. So I copied the vocabulary words out of RD to practice typing. Talk about life-changing!<br /><br /><br />The book sounds wonderful..hurray <br />Hank Phillippi Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17420701704169428286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-5808891541470316612014-03-05T09:44:40.587-05:002014-03-05T09:44:40.587-05:00Hi Barbara,
What wonderful inspiration for a novel...Hi Barbara,<br />What wonderful inspiration for a novel. It's such a unique phenomenon in today's world. And it's true: talent can find its way these days through blogging. I'm so eager to read your book. Best of luck with it! <br />Kim<br />PS I am SO addicted to magazines that I only allow myself 2 a year: this year it is Bon Appetit and Vanity Fair. Otherwise, I would spend all of my time looking at glossy pages.Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15354719566758459929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-28451523105898009122014-03-05T09:43:37.710-05:002014-03-05T09:43:37.710-05:00I grew up with LIFE and THE SATURDAY EVENING POST,...I grew up with LIFE and THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, and now read VANITY FAIR, O, THE NEW YORKER, and NEW YORK magazine. Love so many things about magazines! <br /><br />Weren't the REDBOOK fiction pieces fun? <br /><br />Now we have blogs and I think they are super -- especially JRW. The opportunity to be introduced to someone like Barbara O'Neal. And her books.<br /><br />As I say very often. Thank you.Denise Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02790883493798517829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-85643396416049258442014-03-05T09:25:09.052-05:002014-03-05T09:25:09.052-05:00Gosh, several things!
First, you had me at "...Gosh, several things!<br /><br />First, you had me at "ensorcelled" -- a new word! <br /><br />Your story made me think of Caitlin Shetterly, the woman whose blog about how she and he husband took a big leap, pulling up stakes and moving to Los Angeles, only to have to move back to Maine a year later with a baby and an empty bank account, turned into the bestseller "Made for You and Me." Talk about pulling victory from the jaws of defeat.<br /><br />Love the premise of your book, especially multi-generational stories of women. <br />Hallie Ephronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04759439029582054503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-40112018380581188882014-03-05T09:19:03.212-05:002014-03-05T09:19:03.212-05:00By the way, one of my ambitions is to own a lavend...By the way, one of my ambitions is to own a lavender farm! I have a patch that is going very well, but this year I hope to kick things up a few notches, since I've now learned how to propagate my own. Karen in Ohionoreply@blogger.com