I am obviously running a bit behind these days. Last week I missed Tell A Story Day and this week I missed Look For Circles Day, Nov 2. The site Hollidayinsights.com listed it as an actual day to celebrate, so I didn’t make it up!! Now I know that there are people who happen to […]
I’m cheating. I don’t have an idea for a blog today, so I have popped along to Five-minute Fridays for their post topic. Again the idea is that you give yourself five minutes to write without editing and just enjoy the process!! Their topic today is “grace.” Here goes: I often say, as many have,
Some how I missed the fact that October 27 was National Tell A Story Day. It is celebrated more in England and Scotland than in North America, but it sounds like a wonderful day. I’m not very good at making up stories. That being said, I am always making up stories about people I see in
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
I enjoyed Tabitha Southey’s column the other day in the Globe and Mail – Beavers don’t Kill People. It was a humorous take on the efforts to curb the use of guns in the US. Her idea was – suppose you looked at something as sacred in Canada, as the right to bear arms is,
….Today is Friday the 13th. Unfortunately, I didn’t find anything very interesting in my various searches for this day. There was information about the usual events and superstitions, but I couldn’t find anything that I could really identify with (with which I could really identify.) It was weird. You know, here you have a day
I mentioned in an earlier post that there was a story behind the paper clip, well, one paper clip in particular. It was a giant red paper clip which Kyle McDonald used to trade up to a house in Saskatchewan. Here is the story from Wikipedia. MacDonald made his first trade, a red paper clip
Every once in a while an image or a sound creeps into my thoughts from a place far away. The other day, I heard a faint cry. I was outside; I couldn’t see anyone and the sound was not repeated. Slowly, though, a scene unfolded in my mind, where the sound echoed again. It was
I’ve said before, I love lists. Well, Robyn Gallimore of Red Bird Knits posted to my FB wall the site Listchallenges.com. It’s a place where you can compare what you have done, read etc. with their lists. The main headings are Movies, Books, Food and Other – this just about covers it! For example they
I was in blog nadir again this morning. The only “thing” that came close to an idea for a post was whether or not postmen (people) get attached to their routes. You now, they deliver mail to houses and maybe start to wonder what sort of people live there. They try to puzzle out personalities
