I am looking outside at bare tree branches – again. They are still taupe against a pale grey sky; nothing has changed in months. I am tempted to feel sad. No, I mustn’t give in to sadness. I ease back a little from the melancholy and think again. I realize that I haven’t read Billy […]
OK it’s 7:00am Sunday morning and the bars are open. This is not Mexico or some other exotic place where the bars never close. No, this is Toronto, where getting a license to stay open an extra hour or two on a Friday or Saturday night, if you are a pub owner, is right up
My blogs are works in progress. That is, I often re-read a post, which might be listed on my stats. page, as recently read by someone else. Invariably, I find an error, usually minor, in the spelling or the syntax, which I then correct. Today, someone read this post – Content Marketing Tools Can Be
There was an interesting post to my FB wall yesterday about knitting. Yes I am still involved in the knitting community and I do enjoy articles that add to its mystique!! The article from The Guardian, listed several little know facts about knitting and its uses, other than to make scarves, socks and sweaters!! There
….maybe just an empty net and a flukey missed shot. How many times have you succeeded in spite of the odds and how many times have you missed a wide open opportunity? These moments happened in Olympic proportions yesterday to the Canadian woman’s hockey team. Down 2-1 against the US, they pulled their goalie. At
…..the other day I was scratching around for a blog post. You know there wasn’t much out there that was being “ironical.” OK, it was bright and sunny, which might have deceived us into thinking that it was warmer. No, it was still around -12ºC, warming up to -7ºC as it clouded over. We did
I wrote a post the other day on doodling. I decided that I might be able to do more doodling and therefore reap the benefits, mentioned in the post, if I could doodle on my phone. So I opened the app store, keyed in “drawing” and came up with several free apps for the purpose.
Yesterday it was about -1ºC and the day before it was 0. I walked through the cemetery in the sun, listening to my iPhone. It was bliss!! In fact, I hadn’t listened to all of my music in over a year, because it was on an old MP3 player, which I just never remembered to
I was reading an article the other day on the positive effects of doodling. There is now a book out, by Sunni Brown, on how you can improve your “idle” drawings and reap the benefit of – 1. Improved focus. Yes, apparently drawing during lessons or at meetings keeps your mind from drifting off topic.
I realized this morning that I have become a gadget junkie. On the table in front of me is my Fitbit – charged, my point and shoot camera – charged, my MAC – charged and my iPhone – about to be charged!!! Oh God, I’ve become my father!! I knew that I was in trouble
