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,
In going back to YouTube to double check something in their cat video, I found this expanded video on how IKEA actually made the film. If you love cats, you’ll like this one. I love cats, but I also like explanations of how things came to be. I like to explore the thinking behind an
A fellow blogger in one of my Blogging groups Patricia Wycoff, posed a challenge within a challenge. Someone is to suggest a topic and then all of us write on that topic. Patricia offered to go first and suggested writing about “a place that was other than what you thought it was going to be.”
Someone posted this video to my FB wall the other day and I couldn’t resist watching it. The intro was, “IKEA unleashes 100 house cats into their Wembly store.” OK, so I immediately thought – Saturday afternoon and all of a sudden the chaos in the check out line is turned into a frenzied melee
I had an idea…or more importantly, I didn’t have an idea and so I was hunting around for a topic for another post. I had taken this picture a few days ago and I thought that I might do a post on the theme of “just hanging out.” Lonely Flamingo You know the crazy things
I enjoyed a post the other day by author Karen Dales. She has written several books and was commenting, in her blog, on our limited vocabulary – 3,000 words. Apparently the average North American uses only about 3,000 words, as a working vocabulary. This is sad. I guess we can blame laziness or a shift
