Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Back to School… the starchy-smelling shirt is out of the plastic bag… the cardboard is out from under the collar and the (really cool) clear plastic thing on the front of the collar has been dislodged… all but the one ‘mandatory-to-miss-until-the-shirt-is-pulled-over-the-head’ pins have been removed… top 2 and bottom one button un-buttoned… it’s back to school season.

(yeah, a bit of a long windup for a simple bloghop Post*)

My best summertime memory this year was…

( Conjuring faded memories of 3rd grade Teachers… their crisp white (whatever you people call those pleated/fluffy-fronted shirts)… and semi-clingy skirts with those shoes that are high heel but not really… arc-welded into a future blog writers impressionable, pre-adolescent mind), the Three (plus One) Bloggorini:  Janine and Kate and Stephanie and…. and  that one,  of the FTSF ask us to complete another sentence.

The best memory is of the first of the Wakefield Doctrine Video Brunches. Although, technically, the first (of these video conference calls) was more of a midnight snack… I remember it like it was a few weeks ago. Lizzy and Michelle and Cyndi made an appearance on my devices… really! first they were on my tablet, then my phone and then my computer… if it wasn’t that the Doctrine and DownSprings were involved, it would’ve been pretty damn scary.  …anyway, that’s the first thing that comes into my mind when I look at the fragment this Friday.

… a very close runner-up to ‘best summertime memory’, was getting to know the people involved in Considerer’s blog-hop, the Ten Things of Thankful (aka TToT). She broke most of the rules and created something that takes blogging into the real world. Despite the fact that the old guard were saying, “Post on a weekend? what are you stupid?  Nobody blogs on weekends!! I never waste a Post on a Saturday or Sunday” we proved them  wrong-wrong (and) wrong.
The TToT runs Saturday to the end of Sunday night (’cause Jak sometimes gets in late) and there is a crowd there all through the weekend.  What our blog-hop has is that much-sought-after-rarely-acheived sense of community… and there is an on-going conversation.  You know how you read through Posts and see a Comment thread and you laugh and want to jump into the conversation?  it not only happens a lot… but some people (not singling anyone named Christine or Dyanne out or anything)… there is a sense of ‘it’s the weekend…stop by the TToT on Saturday morning…check in later in the afternoon…like that.  A virtual open house every weekend.   ya really oughta stop by… even you-know-who shows up!  then you know you better be at the top of your game!

* ain’t no simple blog hop Posts when two conditions obtain: a) the writer hails from the quiet Village of Ychromia… the land of gentle thoughts and just the teensy-est touch of competition (hey, baby it’s in my…. genes!  ya get  it?  ha ha ha) and 2) one of the hosts is She-whose-name-shall-not-be-spoken-unless-one-is-way-cranked-on-something….