tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21078541.post-17486587192568093852008-04-06T18:49:00.000-07:002008-04-07T20:26:39.633-07:00<a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_v23A0zY6oh4/R_mBuwIn2iI/AAAAAAAAAP8/-eAMflaPBBM/s1600-h/51vBqoVG9FL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_v23A0zY6oh4/R_mBuwIn2iI/AAAAAAAAAP8/-eAMflaPBBM/s320/51vBqoVG9FL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186319086088870434" /></a><br />Well, not Mrs. Piggle Wiggle herself, but the <i>niece</i> of the author of Mrs.Piggle Wiggle has a new blog and I hope you will be sure to visit it right <a style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);" href="http://marilynnbeck.blogspot.com">here</a> ! It is written by the one and only Miss Marilyn Beck, who has been browsing about the bloggy world for a couple years now and after some trepidation, she has at last leaped in so I hope you will go and send her some Blogger love and leave her plenty of comments to urge her on!<br /><br />I have known Marilyn for about seven years ever since we first met while working together for three years at the Peace Corps office in LA. At the time, she was in charge of Human Resources and I would bug her with my receipts from hotels I was staying at while I traveled up and down the coast recruiting Peace Corps Volunteers! She approved all my silly "on the road" expenditures at my favorite inns up and down the California coastline and rarely gave me grief about it! <i>But</i> I could also see that she was somewhat not living the life she really wanted, that she was a creative beast being squished to bits in her little cubicle office. You should know that Marilyn is a Cheese Wizard and makes very tasty asparagus and is always reading great books, challenging me to think in ever expanding ways, and is not going to be able to keep up with me when we go running and hiking in Big Sur next month! Marilyn is one of my best friends in all the world and I am very happy to report that she is living a life these days much more in tune with what she really wants so please do go visit her and welcome her to blogging at long last! I am sooooo glad you are writing Marilyn!!!!<br /><br />P.S. Check out my new website <a style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);" href="http://www.alexandrasaperstein.com">here</a>! It's not finished yet but I'm working on it!Alex Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02109059018269508607noreply@blogger.com