Amanda’s Weekly Zen is first and foremost a personal blog,
but that I can imagine you gathered from your first visit here. It is about the
adventures of three; Amanda, Norwood and Maverick the super pup. We have all
done so many different things and it will often be talked about on this blog.
Since our interests are so varied there are many topics covered here at Weekly
Zen. Although it is my intention to blog weekly (hence the weekly Zen) it is
sometimes daily and sometimes very infrequent. But the guarantee I can offer
all my readers is that, Weekly Zen will always be the place that we all come
back to.
So although this blog has been many different things since I
first started it in 2004 (knitting blog, book blog, photo blog, Disney World
blog, RV blog, running blog, yoga blog, sailing blog) it is currently a blog
about our travels (which just happen to be by sailboat, my yoga practice,
running and the books that I am reading. It is also about my husband Norwood
and our 9 year old furbaby Maverick. So here is a little more about each of us…
About Amanda
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| Amanda with the Skyway Bridge in the background in 2011 |
I am Amanda. Most of the posts on this blog will be written by me. The photography on this blog is also done by me (unless it is otherwise noted). I am originally from Colorado. I spent a great deal of my life focused on education (BA in Psychology, BA in English Literature, MA in English Literature, MS in Software Engineering and PhD in Texts and Technology) but last year my focused changed to our travels and other activities. I have become quite fond of yoga (which I have been practicing since January 2011) and running (which I have been doing since December 2009). I read a lot and have been known to write occasionally. I also have been interested in Zen Buddhism since about 1998 and have recently started to incorporate it into my blog (which has carried a name with Zen in the title since about 2006 even though I have neglected to blog on the topic). One of my hobbies is sewing and I have recently started making brocade yoga mat bags that I sell at local studios or online.
About Norwood:
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| Norwood and Maverick sailing in 2011 |
Norwood has an MBA and is working on an MS in Information
Technology. He is the travel guru in this family having seen so many more
places than I. He has also taken on a new role as captain on our very first
sailboat. He surfs, sails, kayaks, snowboards and is also an occasional
musician. From time to time you will see posts here from Norwood offering
advice on travel or alternative energies. Currently his main interests are
sailing and alternative energies.
About Maverick:
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| Maverick enjoying the view from his sailboat in 2011 |
Maverick is our nine year old border collie who becomes more
spoiled and grumpy each day. We found him five years ago at the Longmont Humane
Society. Although he is not fond of travel he has traveled with us by land and
now by sea. He is taking so well to sailboat life that you would think the dog
was born a water dog. He does things on the boat that are incredibly brave for
such a small guy that amaze us each day.
He is often the subject of home videos posted to You Tube and photographs on Flickr. To see them and find out more check out his very own about page.
Although this is a personal blog we do except submissions from the readers to share with our readers. To find out about what we will post here on Weekly Zen please read the Submission Guidelines page.
My Online Projects
You will find remnants of me online almost everywhere so here are my and my family’s current blog projects:
Amanda’s Weekly Zen (My web home)
Zerepa Designs (Online portfolio)
A Visual Zen (Flickr Account)
Climate Change Website Usability (a PhD Group Project)
Notes on Orality & Literacy: A reference for ENG 6800 students
Contact Me
The best way to reach me is through comments on this blog. I read all the comments that my readers leave and try to answer you back either via email or in a comment post. But if you do not want to leave a comment you can always Email Me.
Thanks for stopping by my "Weekly Zen" and actually wanting to know more about me and my family.
Have a Happy Day!
