March winner: Cookies for quotes

Ye ol' BINGO roller choose Janie B. as the winner for March of the homemade chocolate-chip cookies for her submission to the Quotable Grandmas page. Yay, Janie! Contact me to claim your prize and give me your mailing address for shipping you the goodies.

If you didn't win this time, don't despair -- there's always a chance next month. Details on entering can be found by clicking the Quotable Grandmas tab at the top of this page.

REMINDER: Cookies going once ... twice ...

Just a quick reminder that today, March 31, is the last day you can enter for a chance to win a dozen or so homemade chocolate chip cookies. All you have to do to enter is submit a quote for the Quotable Grandmas feature.

So if your grandma, your mom (if she's a grandmother), your favorite fictional grandma or a grandma you read about in the news said something inspirational or awe-inspiring, send it my way. Be sure to include the name of the grandma and your source (if it's a quote you found via media of any sort), and be sure to send it by midnight tonight.

I'll draw the winner tomorrow and get to baking the cookies for shipping the winner's way.

Can't think of one to send today? There's always the April contest. Just keep an ear out for quotable quips from grandmothers then zap it to me any time so I can add it to the ever-growing list.

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming ...

Friday Haiku Contest winner - and farewell

I like to move my furniture around on a regular basis. I can handle the layout of a room and its accoutrements for only so long, then it's time to switch things up, take away this and add that. Each time the overhaul is done, Jim and I sit back and exclaim, "Oh, this is so much better. Why didn't we do this in the first place?"

Six months later we'd be shuffling furniture again, finding an even better layout.

Well, it's been six months since I started the Friday Haiku Contest. I enjoyed doing it. I loved your haikus. I learned a lot about my readers through their haikus ... and met some new readers. A successful six months.

But now it's time for something new, something different, something I hope will make my readers sit back and say, "Oh, this is so much better. Why didn't Lisa do this in the first place?"

Before I get to that 'something new,' I'd like to name everyone who submitted a haiku in last week's contest a winner ... and award yet another goofy antique-store tchotchke to each of them.

Ann, Debbie, Keith and Kate, here are your prizes:

Ann gets "A Round Tuit" so she'll be equipped next time she's tempted to say she'll do something when she gets around to it.

Kate gets an antique postcard to add to her collection.

Keith gets a cash register because his haikus are always money.

Debbie gets a star because she's a rising star and this will remind her when she's not feeling so bright.

 Congratulations, guys! And thank you for being dedicated haiku writers! It's been fun, thanks to YOU! Contact me to claim your prizes.

Now for the all-new Grandma's Briefs feature. If you look up at the top of this page, I just added a "Quotable Grandmas" tab. Clicking there will bring you directly to my new page, where I'll be regularly adding quotes from grandmas. I like quotes, collect them in all sorts of ways, and here is where I'll share the inspirational, sappy, possibly even shocking quotes from grandmas, well known and otherwise.

But I'd like you to add to my list, too -- and am willing to bribe reward you for doing so. I encourage everyone to send me quotes from grandmas, whether it's something your grandma used to say, a quote you read in a magazine or heard on the news, or an interesting line or two from a book or a movie. If it's by a grandma, I want to hear it. Just send me the quote, the name of the grandma, and your source for the quote and I'll add it to the Quotable Grandmas list (with kudos to you for sharing). Submit as many as you want, as often as you want.

And your reward for doing so? Each month I'll randomly choose a submission and the person who submitted it will receive a 'grandma's dozen' (that's 14 ... one more than you get in a baker's dozen) of my yummy homemade chocolate chip cookies, baked fresh and on their way to you within 24 hours of them coming out of the oven!

So check out the Quotable Grandmas feature and submit your own. New quotes will be added to the list as they come in, and the name of the submitter will be included with the quote.

And now, on to our regularly scheduled programming ...

Today's question:

What's your favorite kind of cookie and where do you get it?

My answer: To be honest, I'm not that fond of cookies. Everyone who tries them loves my chocolate chip ones, and I do enjoy eating the dough while I make them, but I can't think of any cookies that are to die for. Maybe I've just not tasted one that delectable yet.