Author name: Carol Tomany

words

A rose by any other name……

I am following the story of a young woman in Iceland who wants to legalize her name – her first name. Apparently in Iceland there is a list of approved names for both male and female children – 1,712 for males and 1,853 for females – this may be grounds for another post. I sense […]

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Thirteen

Since we are still hovering around the changing of the years, I thought that I would sneak this one in quickly before we are well into 2013 when everyone will be saying 13 – get over it! This is why 2013 is going to be a special year!!!! 1. 13 degrees is the distance the

gardening

Winter Gardens…

When we first set out to plant our inner city garden about 30 years ago, we decided that we wanted a garden for all seasons. Planting for Spring to Fall was easy, given that we already had a full sized Sugar Maple growing there. A winter garden would take some thought, as the garden was

poetry, words

Of Paradoxes, Ironies and Oxymora

In an earlier post I suggested that I would look up the origin of the word Oxymoron, because it contained the word “moron.” So hear’s the scoop!  “Oxy” comes from the Greek word for “sharp” and “moron” comes from the Greek word for “dull.” Put them together and you have “sharp/dull” or words of opposite

unicorns, words

A new beginning….

The other day I was reminded of a phrase I hadn’t used in a while – “In my end is my beginning and in my beginning is my end.” I happen to love oxymorons and I have just made a mental note to look up the origin of the word (another post) because it does

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Bells, whistles and gongs….

Tonight somewhere bells will ring, horns will blast, people will cheer and a new dawn will break!!! We will be collectively handed a blank page to start again. Already my husband and I are tentatively blocking parts of the new year into segments of who is going to be home and when, as far as

blogging

Fools rush in…..

Now that I have committed to posting a blog everyday for 2013, I decided that I really should become more involved in blogging communities – it’s a great way to avoid housework and/or anything else you may not feel like doing at that moment, or that day, month, year etc….!!! I joined a blog-a-day challenge

blogging

They’re at the post…..

……They’re off or will be in a few days.  I have just agreed to join a 365 day challenge in my photography and blog writing groups.  It is a challenge that will combine both groups because it is to take a picture a day and post it in the photo group, which anyone can join

blogging, photography

May the fourth and in between…

I plan to post on May 4th as in “May the fourth (force) be with you,” if I am spared!!  For several years now this picture or more correctly stencil has been on the postal storage box at the end of our driveway.  Obviously some graffiti artist crept by one night with a spray can

reality

Plumbers from the Realms of Glory…

….bring your pipes o’er all the earth….well, maybe just to our house.  Last night we enacted one of Murphy’s laws – “If anything is going to go wrong, it will go wrong at the worst possible time!! And so sometime about 1:00am the waste pipe from the bathroom sink just disintegrated!!! We can now look

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