….I know that most of my posts lately have been about the severity of the winter. And it’s not just me. It has been very difficult for most of us north and east of the Mississippi. Everyone, it seems, has been hunkering down, pulling out the stops, as it were, and loading up on the […]
I am still blazing through my proposed reading list for the next few years, with a few dalliances along the way, of course. For example, I didn’t expect to get two Agatha Christie mysteries for Christmas, so I had to interrupt my reading of the classics to read Murder at the Vicarage. I was also
Because I don’t have filters on my blog, I get a number of comments from Anonymous. Many of them never actually post to the blog, but the feeds come through to my e-mail. I usually just ignore them or delete them. In fact, I’m not sure why I even bothered to open this one. The
Today it was -20ºC 8:00am. It’s now 9:21am and it’s still -20ºC. It’s going to be a cold one!! My daughter reminded me that the weather somewhere, like Thunder Bay, for example, where she has been in school, on and off for the last 18 months, is -40ºC. OK, there is a reason why I
I wasn’t going to write about the significance of 2014 in numerology, because it is a little hokey. However, I opened today’s paper and the headline was “2014 – The Year of the Idea.” In numerology 2014 is a 7, which means that it has strong intellectual associations, according to this site anyway. http://www.numerology.com/numerology-numbers/7 Here
For my last post for the year, I was going to do a collection of my favourites from 2013, but that would mean re-reading 364 posts. I also know that I would find errors to correct and syntax to improve, which could take days. Instead, I found a post from January 2013, that had a
…..Or the success of failure. I read this great article on creativity – 28 inspirational reminders for crazy creative people. Most of us know what most of them are, however, we often have to be reminded, as the article suggests. Here are the ones, I enjoyed most from the list – gotta love a list!! 1.
“Let him who is without words throw the first stone..” I think that I need to practise a little stoning – that is creating stones – small pieces of writing that concentrate on something coming in through the senses. Here is a fuller description – Small Stones. I know that the challenge doesn’t start until
OK, I can be a little dramatic sometimes. Actually the title refers to a site that is starting a challenge – Oh, yes, another one and it is also a writing challenge. The site “Writing Our Way Home” is holding what they call their small stones challenge. The link explains it in detail, but briefly,
…… We were invited to a few gatherings over the holidays. Not a lot, since both my husband and I are introverts, so extroverted “things” like parties, tend to be avoided. However, a neighbour and an old friend invited us to an open house last night. We knew that we could pop in for an
