My Year in Petticoats

Happy New Year and Happy Birthday, my Band of Wild Petticoats! January 4th will mark exactly one year of petticoat rustling and peeking at the underthings of literature. And, oh my! It has been quite a year... One of the best things about the year has been sharing life, literature, and art on this blog. The Band of Wild Petticoats now has over 50 posts and has generated over 11,700 views--that's a lot of petticoat rustling! On the Eve of the New Year, before we all eat our grapes and bid farewell to 2013, I thought it would be fun to look back and see what we've been up to...

The 5 most popular posts of the blog so far, according to my stats, were:

#1 The Head The Heart The Hand: Amund Dietzel

#2 The Reason Behind the Risk

#3 Let 'Er Buck

#4 The Importance of Being Stylish

#5 Lost and Found Art: Reviving the Pictorial Webster

And some of my favorite moments from the year were:

#1 Rustling petticoats across the United States and abroad. 

My journey to Maranhão, Brazil

My journey to the Midwest

Small journeys in Colorado

Finding the meaning of Home

#2 Becoming a Master (code for: getting my wizard's robes).

The preparation

The commencement 

  #3 Natural disasters and the End Times. 

Colorado rains

Reading the apocalypse 

#4 Some poems, some prose

                      

                        Cross-dressing in Golden Age Spanish fiction

Soulfood and blues in the poetry of Kevin Young

                        

Cowpuncher Poets

The short fiction of Harry Crews

#5 Some song, some dance, some nice ideas

Neo Fantasy Music

The Pirate of Love

Regular People Dancing

                      

The artwork of Ana Serrano

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Here's to rustling for another year! May you have a very happy New Year filled with art, books, songs and petticoats. Until next year--keep rustling! 

Let's Stay Connected!

Let's Stay Connected!

I have some great news to announce: you are now able to follow Band of Wild Petticoats on Bloglovin'!! Simply click on the icon at the top of the righthand column to add it to the list of blogs you follow.

In other news, I have been thinking about some new features to add to the blog- so look for some wonderful new weekly traditions to start popping up soon. Have a wonderful rest of your weekend!

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Band of Wild Petticoats: Ruffling skirts and flipping pages since 2013.

Welcome to Band of Wild Petticoats, a blog dedicated to the art and craft of using words. It is my hope that over time this blog will become a place to revel in the rugged beauty of the English language, the lyricism of Romance languages, and wild petticoats.

But first, allow me to introduce myself.
<-- Hey look--there's me!

My name is Taiko and I live in the Rocky Mountains with my one true love and our dog (my other one true love). In these old mountains, it is easy to surround oneself with myth and storytelling. I look for stories everywhere, which has led to a fascination with this landscape, vintage hats, rare books, and secret recipes.

The only credentials I can claim as I set out to author this blog are the desire to broaden my reading tastes and hopefully improve my writing. I intend to review poetry, short fiction, and novels from all over the world (especially the English-, Spanish-, and Portuguese-speaking realms).

I hope that you will find ideas here that inspire you to read and write... and I am most hopeful that you will join the Band of Wild Petticoats by commenting on the posts, emailing me, or sharing what you find here!

Cheers,
Taiko