……in the name of literacy. I just shared on FB an article by Neil Gaiman which was published in The Guardian. It’s an essay on the importance of libraries and reading, especially Fiction. I think I may have to rethink my attitude to Fiction. Somehow over the years, I have preferred true stories to Fiction […]
Sometimes, I have to see “something” several times before a pattern emerges and I get an idea for a post. Recently, I have had two feeds to my FB wall, one from highexistence.com and another from wordporn, both defining the word, Hiraeth (he-writhe). In Welsh it means homesickness. However, in a broader sense, it also means
As I have said before, I am a sucker for a challenge and this is one I couldn’t resist. Before I go any further, let me link you to the site that started it all, A-Z. Challenging, though this maybe, to write a post with each successive sentence beginning with the next letter of the
This post was the result of a conversation at dinner last night. Somehow, we got to talking about Yogi Berra. We mentioned a few of his more famous quotations and I said, that I bet, if I looked up some more, I could write a post on them. Well here goes… 1. “It ain’t over,
The other day I posted that I needed to connect to a few more twitter platforms. I like, but don’t need, the app by which my plants can remind me to water them. I just have to take one look at their drooping leaves. This is not rocket science!! No, the connection that I really
We went away for a few days last month and invariably visited some small towns in the area around Algonquin Park. When we were in Huntsville, we happened to walk past this cafe. I know that often if you grow up with a name or a place, it usually doesn’t strike you as odd. However,
The celtic feast of Samhain is Oct 31. It’s a time when the veil between our world and the nether world, the world of spirits, is very thin. I have written about Samhain before. It is a time of mourning, a time of connecting with those who have gone before us and a time of
Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 We all know that language changes over time. Words come into a lexicon because of new inventions or processes and other words leave, becoming obsolete, as objects and customs disappear. Word usage also changes to facilitate pronunciation or to move from an irregular to a regular formation. For example we rarely, if
I laughed the first time I read the letters TLDR, which mean “too long, didn’t read.” It’s a text or twitter phrase, which not so politely tells you your communication was too long. Alas, we live in an abbreviated world. We like short quick blasts of information, preferably of the more exciting kind – dare
Yesterday I posted about the first six of the twelve Archangels with the proviso that I usually don’t post blogs of a religious nature, however, I do make an exception for angels. Here is my post, for what it’s worth, on the last 6 of the archangels listed on the site beliefnet.com. After all, you
