Bagged and Tagged

My cousin, the Bag Lady, very thoughtfully added me to her list of taggees for a recent meme. I like being tagged. It makes me feel like I belong in the world.
The rules-- Dog bless ‘em -- are I am to tell seven random and/or interesting things about myself. Then I have to get five blog buddies to play, too, and link to their blogs. And I have to post the rules.

My seven random things:

1. I can read upside down. My best friend in Gr. 11 could do this and I was danged if I’d let her reading skills outstrip mine. It came in handy more than a decade later when I asked a Court Clerk to look up a charge against someone for me. The charge was laid under the Young Offenders Act so she was unable to answer my question, but she kept the hard copy file open and spread out on the counter for a very long time.

2. I was a journalist for about 20 years. I never received a death threat, sadly, but I was threatened with lawsuits many times over.

3. Andy Williams is my favorite singer.

4. I will do just about anything within –-and occasionally without—-reason for the sheer experience of it. I have smoked pot, snorted cocaine, and inhaled laughing gas. I have also mixed amphetamines and alcohol.

5. I broke my leg when I was three. Dad told me not to climb up on the fence gate so I scooted up the second his back was turned. I got all the way to the top, wondered why I wasn’t to climb on it, and then fell backward with the gate on top of me. The hinges weren’t attached to the posts yet. I wore a walking cast on my left leg for three weeks.

6. I like heights, but because of the above I was scared to come back down on a ladder for many years. I climbed down frontward, if at all. If it was less than 10 feet down I’d jump instead.


7. We raised hogs when I was young. I discovered that sows could be ridden, albeit briefly, and it was best to get out of the pen immediately afterward.

I tag: Polly Kahl at Recovery Reconnaisance, Thomma Lyn at Tennessee Text Wresting, Michael at Avatar Lore, and two freebies.

Bookcase Betrayal

I picked up this meme from Dawn at The Flightless Writer who got it from Michael at Avatar Lore.

According to the rules I have to provide a list of books that I have on my shelves to see if anyone can learn anything about me. It’s not just any book. It has to be them as I’ve paid for as opposed to been given, begged for, borrowed, or stolen.

I was going to be careful about what I selected, but frankly, that just plain defeats the fun.

Here’s my list:

1. The Bible and Flying Saucers – Barry H. Downing

2. Many Lives, Many Masters – Brian L. Weiss, M.D.

3. Coffee, Tea, or Me? – Trudy Baker and Rachel Jones

4. The Past Through Tomorrow – Robert A. Heinlein

5. Tama of the Light Country – Ray Cummings

6. Atlanta Nights – Travis Tea

7. Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendships and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present – Lillian Faderman

8. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal – Christopher Moore

9. The Psychic Mafia – M. Lamar Keene (as told to Allen Spraggett)

10. Eats, Shoots and Leaves – Lynne Truss

I tag anyone who wants to play.

Meanwhile, it’s unlikely I’ll post tomorrow as we’re off camping in the blue Canadian Rockies with friends for the weekend.

May I suggest (being shameless ‘n’ all) that you check out Prozac Palace? I did the eight random things about me meme there the other day.

Readers might be amused.