I am just winding up a weekend at the Fern Resort near Orillia ON. It’s a delightful place with great accommodation, excellent food and wonderful company. A group of us helped organize a knitting retreat – 3 days of teaching, eating and FUN. Here are some pictures. Lyn looking lovely as always Jennifer looking lovely […]
This is a fascinating topic. I love structure, especially in areas where there is often very little structure, such as the arts. Although I like free verse, I also really admire poets who can work within the “rules” of structured poetry, such as, the Haiku, or certain rhyme schemes. Caro Ness, in one of my
The word of the day, the other day, was “placate” – to appease or try to please. Well, obviously we, up here in the North, have not been living properly or something, because the “gods” are not happy with us. Therefore, they are withholding Spring. We need to placate them, some how. Human sacrifice used
A lot of people don’t necessarily want to be famous, they just want to be unique – you know a little different from the crowd. Here is how you can do it – 1. Learn to play the Hydrocrystalophone. That’s right. There are only about 5 or 6 people in the world who can play
I read a post the other day that talked about the importance of “titles.” Not the regal kind – “sir – such and such” or “dame – whatever.” They were talking about the titles that you give your posts and how important that is in attracting blog traffic etc…etc…etc. I can generally do the hooks
I read in the paper the other day about a woman who had to be rescued by helicopter from a ledge on one of the the hiking trails near Sedona. She had been on the ledge for about 30 hours, before a crew got to her. She was lucky. She might never have been found,
April is National Poetry Month. Fortunately Stephen King from the V7N blogging group posted the other day about National Tartan Day and that reminded me that there were a few sites that list these dedicated days, weeks and/or months. This is a big help to bloggers, who run out of steam..er..words from time to time.
There are a lot of cliches that people use for the concept of “covering their downside.” It tends to be a financial/stock market term, which means that you spread your investments over a broad spectrum, so that if one “goes down” there are others that will hopefully come to fruition and you won’t be totally
…… a Nom de Plum…. another personality…… or three!! I was just reading about Archy and Mehitabel, created by Don Marquis, who was at one time the editor of the New York Evening Sun. In 1916, to help with the task of writing a daily column, Marquis created several charcters – Archy, a cockroach, Mehitabel an
I am sitting here at my kitchen table and thinking that I really need to do a blog post in the next 12 hours and what should I write about, that isn’t a video – I’ve done a lot of those lately – but is still “significant” so as not to waste a reader’s time,
