Five Star Friday's Edition #76
Friday, October 23, 2009 Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.
— Mordecai Richler
That Mordecai, always so sunny!
Today's Five Star Friday is brought to you by awesomeness. I would tell you more, but I don't want to ruin the surprise.
Happy Friday!
Two entries from Attack of the Redneck Mommy:
"I Don't Just Touch Myself"
and
"Life and Death"
"Girls’ Guide to Being a Courteous Human Being When Sharing a Community Bathroom" from Another Hot Mess
"Down Syndrome Awareness -- 31 for 21 -- Career Choices for People With Down Syndrome: A Dose of Reality" from Take a Walk On the Happy Side
"Friday Flashback — A Post That Once Was" from Honea Express
"Firsts" from Slouching Past 40
"Of Things Past" from Flotsam
A few entries regarding My Bottle's Up vs. the TSA:
"Why the @mybottlesup Story Really Chaps My Ass" from Suburban Oblivion
and
"A Little Advice for Nicole White, the TSA and Anyone Traveling With Kids" from elliott.org
and
"The FCC, TSA, @MyBottlesUp and Why Bloggers Can't Be Trusted" from Paul O'Flaherty
"Troubled Kids-Troubled Adults: The Only One Who Spoke Truth Yesterday Was 6 year Old Falcon - The Balloon Boy" by Davey D at Southern Shift
"These People Are Serious" from 1,000 Dog-Eared Pages
"40 Days & 40 Nights" from The Other Boufs
"The New York Times and Stephanie Saul: Infertility! Twins! Danger!" from Stirrup Queens
"Based On a True Story" from Wendi Aarons
"Dreams" from Redneck Diva
"Not Sure If This Post Makes Sense. Hope It Doesn't Sound Selfish." from Miz S
Trigger warning — this is a story of domestic violence:
"Jett" from Violence Unsilenced
"Katy Perry Is the Insect Avatar of Our Collective Unconscious" by the Palinode at MamaPop
Two entries from OrdinaryArt:
"In Defiance of Gravity"
and
"Your Body, Mine"
"Guest Post: From My Mom, About My Other Mom" at The Psychobabble
"Catching a Shadow" by cIII at DadCentric
"Molasses, Again" from Spin Me I Pulsate
"R-E-S-P-E-C-T" from A Common Grey Spider
"I Grow Old, I Grow Old" from cribchronicles.com
A Halloween series from Frog and Toad Are Still Friends:
"Because Halloween Is Coming", "Halloween Story 2", "Halloween #3", "Halloween #4", "Halloween #5", "Halloween #6", "Halloween #7", "Halloween #8", and "Halloween #9"
Please come back and share good writing with us over the coming week to be featured on the next Five Star Friday. If you have read a really good piece on someone else's weblog, submit it by Thursday at midnight CST to have it featured on Five Star Friday.
And because you are a fan of finding good new writing on the internet:
Reader Comments (7)
Hey! Look at that! Thanks so much for listing my Halloween posts.
Some great posts this week! One more plug for Cribchronicles -- it's epic.
Off topic, but I love the line you put in your (short) feeds, that a visit to you is a donation to a worthy cause.
Magpie, I just put that in today. I've wanted to do a little more for a long time, and I thought that donating some of the ad revenue from my websites was a great way to start. I'm glad you like it!
Awesome. That's it. Just awesome.
Thanks for the link. I'm humbled. I can't wait to read these other great entries.
Thank you very much for the feature. The writing of that sort of terrified me, and I've been overwhelmed with the graciousness and kindness that has been dealt to me.
Blessings!