I wish it were that simple. One of the problems with writing every day and every other day, the year before, is that you end up covering a lot of topics of general interest, a good number of obscure topics, since there are fewer of them, and if your area of “intense” interest (knitting) happens […]
What to do when there is nothing else to do. Well, I often resort to Found Poetry. It’s an idle way of taking a preset arrangement of words and either re-arranging them or keeping them in the same order but putting in the “significant pauses” that make the words “poetry” or thoughtful comments on life.
When my kids were in school there were always fund raising projects and everyone contributed. One of these fund-raisers was a magazine campaign, where you subscribed to 4 or 5 magazines and renewed them each year. Since Mental Floss, subject of my last two posts, and Utne Reader were on the list, I ordered them.
Yesterday I posted about an article from the website Mental Floss. I decided to “like” them on FB and subsequently receive their regular posts. Well, since yesterday, I have received 4 posts in 24 hours. That’s one post every 6 hours. Topics were as follows: 1. Twenty Facts About Your Favourite Liquors – this could turn
I like the website Mental Floss. Actually I used to subscribe to their magazine. It is somehow linked to Mensa – the organization for people with IQs over 150 – not me! They actually have some pretty cool T-Shirts. So when a friend of mine posted an article from their site I couldn’t help but
……have a ball. Well what I really mean to say is, make “melon balls.” I have said before that I am a gadget “groupie.” I especially like kitchen gadgets and I have written before about my cherry pitter, and my mill for grinding nuts. I even have a philosophical treatise on sieves – nothing gets
Have you every considered that you may actually be the embodiment of another entity? Well, I never have until the other day….. Roy Akerman, a blogger who is active in several of the same blogging groups that I am and in fact started the Monday Thursday Blog group shared a post from Frugal Science on writing.
I read an article this morning in the Globe and Mail on photography by staff correspondent, Ian Brown. Ironically it was in the “Focus” section of the paper and it was entitled “Six Billion Photos and Nothing to See.” The author was one of three renown photographers who were judges of The Banff Mountain Film and
I always like to record my first impressions of something new, because so often we assimilate and what seemed so different once, too often becomes commonplace. It’s fun to look back. Roman Ruins 1. I was surprised by the number of people I saw smoking. More young people than middle aged were smoking and more
Both nights that we ate out in Florence, we ate at the sidewalk restaurant, Za Za. It is perched on a corner of the square which houses the huge glass-roofed food market. This market, in turn, is surrounded by the umbrella-ed stalls of merchants of every description. Firenza must be the leather capital of the
