Little-known Talents

We all have our little-known talents, the ones that we keep mostly to ourselves and never ever share, unless hard-pressed to tell. Sometimes these talents are unexpected gifts, and sometimes we work very hard at them. Today's the day to share those talents, tell the world, or at least the dozen or so readers of my blog.

My unexpected gift talent: curly hair. My hair was wavy until I had my sons. Now it's curly. In rainy weather, it's frizzy. The up-side is that my hair is never, ever flat.

My talent that took many years of practice: veggie stir-fry. I can chop and fry up a yummy set of veggies. Took years to develop good knife skills, and years longer to not over-season the mix. Today's lunch was a stir-fry in light olive oil of portabella mushrooms, yellow peppers, celery, and carrot, seasoned with lite soy sauce and ume plum vinegar, and finished with sliced garlic, sliced green olives, and fresh lime juice, all served over a bed of baby field greens.

First 250 Words Blogfest

My contribution to Elle Strauss' first 250 words blogfest...has been removed for revisions.  Thank you for your input, everyone!

Share a Talent--Life in a Day

Just sharing the wierdness that I contributed to the great YouTube social experiment, "Life in a Day."

The audio starts several seconds in. Yes, that's me talking without a script!

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?xl=xl_blazer&v=FfYw-20-nzo

If the link doesn't work, search YouTube for insightme86.

Share a Talent - more on songcrafting

This one is a crossover song that I wrote. A crossover song means that it crosses genres, in this case, Christian rock, and popular music.

If the link doesn't work, just search on insightme86 in YouTube.

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?client=mv-google&xl=xl_tsp&v=8fpKvvI6pjI

Share a Talent Saturday - song crafting

Today is my first Share a Talent Saturday! I'd like for this to be a forum where we share a poem or a link to a song or video. Keep it clean, please. This is a family-friendly blog.

To kick things off, I'm sharing a song that I co-wrote. Yes, that is me singing. Read the lyrics and sing along with me!

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=941992&content=music