This post has a title because that is the convention, and it is in the form of a question which puts me in jeopardy of looming apology. You see, it is possible that this blog, New Media Martini has a horde of fans in the environs of Dayton, although possibly, like me, no one knows the meaning or exactitude of the word “horde” and joins me in abusing and misusing it frequently to the merriment and disdain of the linguistically superior.
Worse, the forgoing sentence took me right off the track of the purpose of this post which perhaps uncharacteristically has one.
It is to tell you about Molly Campbell, who copiously admits to living in Dayton along with her husband who is rumored to be quite elderly or less so. Molly is a humor writer and earns that designation frequently and in good spirits despite of her latitudinal and longitudinal preferences here stated.
She writes the popular blog, Life With the Campbells.
In addition to being a writer quite amusing to her readers, Molly is generous with her good cheer and her praise. I know because I have been the frequent and deserving recipient of both.
All of us who toil in the stratusphere of the blogosphere know that writing a blog is a burdensome joy. For some of us, just doing so is all that we dare accomplish. But not Molly and not her old man. Her husband. They, Molly and the Aged One, have identified and popularized techniques for living life in a certain way. A gentle way. A slow way. A way that promotes a certain kind of cool.
I applaud them sincerely and, and hasten to add that part of the reason I do so is that I so enjoy the sound of applause which is accustomed to being near my welcoming ears.
For you see, the Campbells seem to be on the forefront of creating a new Movement that requires very little movement and even less clothing. Yes, it is a Movement that requires being quite still. The Movement could be called many things but I shall leave the naming of The Movement to others less creative who should have the opportunity nonetheless.
Please read their idea, fresh as anything from Dayton, Ohio, and tell me what you think, here below.
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Actually, it is the COXES from Salina, Kansas, who are not moving much…we actually got central air conditioning in lieu of a divorce three years ago. Kay, this is wonderful, but the accordion man is getting REALLY puffed up, and I am afraid I will have to take him down a few notches! Thanks for the wonderful mention of the great Dayton, Ohio! molly
Darling, please keep in mind that I am the one who is adorable and modest! I have conquered that pursuit with such panache that it requires you to abandon such traits and seek excellence in other things. Yes, the Coxes, the Coxes–but it is the Campbells who popularized the Movement that requires none. <3 you, Molly.
Thanks for bringing your friends here.
Molly is a social media whirlwind of good cheer and generosity. She might be still in Dayton but she is a typhoon of energy on the internet!
Ann, thanks for pointing that out and thanks for coming by. Little do you know, since it is a secret, but I have a Dayton secret involving a Dayton past.
Not only do I totally enjoy “Life With the Campbells”, I actually know them. O Aged One is really quite cute with a beautiful complexion with roses in his cheeks and could perhaps be quite cool if he didn’t go on so about his accordion. The bloger, Molly, I met after trading emails for months and months (before her blog) and decided to visit her after a very uncomfortable operation on her nose to remove skin cancer (I add that only so you know she didn’t have a vanity nose job.) So, sight unseen, I arrived at their doorstep to amuse and cheer her up because, as she said, she looked too terrible to go out. We are now fast friends which is a good thing because their daughter and my son are getting married next June.
We worship vanity here and have nothing against a vanity nose job despite being highly unnecessary for celebrated natural lovelies like Molly and me.
Sheryl, I detect since I am able to detect such things without reason or ability a willingness on your part to provide Molly ongoing with material for her very amusing blog.
Hey Molly and Charlie,
You are not aged or living in such a “gentle way”. You are involved in the community. You know what is “going on”. You have great senses of humor. You promote the welfare of others. Just ask my 95 year old mother-in- law! Give yourselves much deserved credit!
Thanks, Marlene Carlile
Marlene, important your role in giving Molly and Charlie the “big head” shall not be overlooked and is a significant contribution to the physics of their quest to become really, really, still.
Still…
Kay……what is YOUR Dayton secret/past???
Charlie, apparently my blondness is sadly convincing of a non-existing carelessness regarding disclosure of my non-sordid and non-repudiated yet non-revealed secret about my over-stated association with the city and non-city environs of Dayton, Ohio in the eighties which is a hint and why I invited Donna Summer to this blog just yesterday and in the future.
As we say when we wish to be trite here as if we ever wish such things as triteness upon ourselves and others, “the past shall remain so, unkindly,” which qualifies as an “almost trite,” which makes it a “trite fail.”