Seedy Saturdays have nothing to do with weekend decay 🙂 They are actually days when people get together to exchange seeds from their respective gardens. With all this genetic engineering going on, it’s a way of preserving heirloom varieties and keeping Monsanto’s laboratories out of the flower beds of the nation. I have never considered […]
August 17 is national “is” day. Ironically, today I was looking for a blog topic and I keyed in the phrase “to be” in google. I was hoping to find something meaningful and, you know, “deep” as in “I think; therefore I am” or “I thought; therefore I was” – No, that was yesterday, so
I felt that I just had to explore this idea of parlour games more thoroughly – you’ll notice that I didn’t use the word exhaustively, though many of these sound exhausting, if not downright dangerous!! A quick google search brought me to this site which is btw another great source of insane blog topics. Anyway,
…..try writing any of these great works!! Mental floss posted an article today about 10 pieces that were really hard to write. They really are quite a fascinating study in the difficulties and/or challenges that some writers face. Here they are with comments. 1. Gadsby by Ernest Vincent Wright. This author created a challenge for
….always a Boojum. I must apologize for not finishing the story of the intruder that my sister found sleeping on her couch one night. I thought that I had forgotten what had happened and in fact, in talking to my sister, I realized that what had actually happened was a “Boojum” – a drifting off
Someone posted to my FB wall a story about a family in BC who had come home to find a naked man cooking breakfast in their kitchen. He had apparently showered, shaved etc, and in fact had done everything, but gotten dressed and was about to make himself a meal, when the owners arrived home!!
When my kids were in school there were always fund raising projects and everyone contributed. One of these fund-raisers was a magazine campaign, where you subscribed to 4 or 5 magazines and renewed them each year. Since Mental Floss, subject of my last two posts, and Utne Reader were on the list, I ordered them.
Again I have to thank the crazy people I interact with (with whom I interact) on FB for this post. Fiona Ellis, knitwear designer extraordinaire, posted this note about a curio that can be purchased at Restoration Hardware. They are German Carnival noses and they have been reduced, in price that is, not size, from
I had decided to head out to the North Face outlet which is/was about 20mins from the house to buy the few remaining items that we needed for the trip. The thought of the deal or the find prompted the two youngest to “hop on board.” We set out for the outlet via the back
Yesterday, I posted about the healing power of music and linked to an old folk song that I had never heard before – The Broom of the Cowdenknowes. I decided to do a little more research on the song and the plant called Scotch Broom. Broom comes in many varieties and grows almost everywhere. In
