msmeta’s musings on the meaning of life at middle age — and beyond.
I, msmeta, am a middle-aged, middle-class, middle-brow writer, reader, wife and mother languishing in a dusty corner of the Great American West. I have spent several years lurking online, but I'm ready to join the conversation. I just hope I have something to say. I'm particularly interested in issues facing women at midlife. Look for posts on books, American culture, middle age, thrift shops, shoes, family, politics, religion and maybe even the occasional rant if I'm irritated enough.
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Unmitigated, who is always good for something interesting, has introduced me to Wordle, which generates “word clouds” from any text that you provide. And so here is my latest:
I had no idea I used the word “just” so much. I need to quit qualifying my ideas. Verrrrrrry interesting.
December 17, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Thanks, that’s fun, though it took a while to work out what I needed to install.
I think it must weigh recent posts heavily. Dead is one of my biggest words, and Remembrance, though I think I only wrote about these once (once is a big word too!)
December 19, 2008 at 11:40 am
I did it but couldn’t figure out how to import it to my blog. D’oh….
December 22, 2008 at 10:59 am
Jane, I have a little Mac application called Grab that allows me to steal, er, borrow, er, GRAB any image. I can then modify it in PhotoShop for any of my nefarious purposes.