Friday Blogplugs - 3/28

Hey
folks,

A very happy Friday from all of
us in Northern California. Hope the weather gods are looking on more
favorably at people in the East and Mid-West.

First off, thanks for your
interesting and varied responses to "opening up"
Magic Smoke.

The reason for opening up Magic
Smoke is not because we cannot spend a 1/2 hour or we are trying to
shirk our responsibility. Magic Smoke is part of the JLand
community, and we want to involve the community in it. This is also in
response to people who wrote to us saying that they wanted see greater
community participation on Magic Smoke. 

I also want to clarify
something. I
am still going to be around and will do my best to make this
successful. Also, for now, we will only be adding writers who have
something interesting to say or offer on Magic Smoke.

So, I would urge the naysayers
to give us a chance. If this does not work we will look at
alternatives.

With that, I would like
to invite the JLand community host their games, contests, trivia on
Magic Smoke. Also, if you feel like
contributing an entry on important days of the year, like Mother's day,
Father's day, Earth day, etc. please feel free to send us email at
journalseditor@aol.com.

Moving on to the task
du jour, let's see what we have for blogplugs.

* standsbyriver, a new AOL
Journaler(welcome), writes about her abusive childhood in this
entry and this
one. Beautifully written. Please stop by to say hello and bring a
strong heart.

* Robin picks
up some treasure
from
trash.

* Dawn
completes 3
years of blogging on AOL Journals.
Congratulations!

* Tawyna's
Wednesday
hero this week is the Soldiers' Angels Living Legends
Team.

* Ken urges
us to take the time to do a little research – do
not believe everything you read or hear. He also has another
entry where he writes about complacency
and how we should confront
it.

* Guido has
started a JLand group at AIM groups and invites
you to join. This is to facilitate quick communication via
email or the messageboard within the JLand community. If you have an
AIM/AOL screenname, you just have to click a button on that page to
join.

* Indigo
describes her
emotions as she watched her child's emergence from her
cocoon. Nicely
written.

* Lisa writes
that she is in lots
of pain and she is fighting the good fight. She laments that
writing about her health problems, have cost her friends. (Are you sure
they were friends to begin with?
:))

* Christopher
wants us to help our environment by joining the people who
will be turning
off their lights for 1 hour on March
29th.

* Marie
writes about resurrection.

* Sherry
wishes
everybody a good Easter and says the flood waters have receded and
things are drying out in her
town.

* Krissy hopes you enjoyed your
special time with loved ones celebrating
Easter. She has some Easter
cartoons for you and wants you to know that she is having
shoulder
problems limiting her ability to type. She also has answers
to a meme
started by Dawn.

* gifdude's
thoughts
on easter and he has a video
of ernie haase.

Contests &
Trivia!

* Weekly
sentence with Val. On brief hiatus. Will be back this
Saturday.

* Dawn has
new weekly feature called "The
Wednesday Word of the Week" where she will share a word with
us every week. The word this week is Meliorist. I
wish I could use that somewhere
:)


Lights, Camera and
Action!

* Krissy's
JLand Photo Shoot entries
for the subject
"sacred"

*
Marie's AOL
Community Photo Challenge, beginner
and advanced
winning entries
for the subject "Wearing of the
green".

* Marie is
now offering
2 variations of her Photo Challenge, one where the entries
are judged and one where it isn't.

*
Marie's AOL
Community Photo Challenge, judged
and fun 
entries
for the subject
"Aged".

* Martha has
started a photo challenge called "Friday
Photo Fun". Subject is Freaky Friday, Fun Friday, Famous,
Funky or just plain Friday
Favorite.

--

Thanks again for the blogplugs
this week. Don't forget to tag your best entries with
"blogplugs". If you want to be a Guest Editor or have some
interesting (or useful) blogplugs, send your submissions to
JournalsEditor@aol.com and we'll review
them.

~Vish

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