I was raised in a entrepreneurial family. They were never very successful, but they earned every penny they spent and were never accorded “benefits,” “pensions,” etc. We were lucky our teeth grew in “fairly straight,” because there was no money for cosmetics. We were lucky also that we didn’t require expensive meds, because there wasn’t a […]
A fellow blogger, Roy Ackerman commented on this post, so I decided to read it. Well it was endorsed by a reputable source 🙂 The post is a response to a challenge, so I am doing it myself and passing it on – 99 Things I love – 1. Photography 2. Poetry 3. Walking 4. Gadgets
I have always looked out of windows. In fact I wish I had a collection of all the places I have been and the pictures from those windows. There is something very simple and yet profound about recording the here and now, as you contemplate the world from your window on it. Mashable posted a
I was writing in an earlier post about an encounter in a cemetery the other day. It was a little freaky. It had nothing to do with ghosts and everything to do with an orange parka, go figure 🙂 I was, at that point, going to make an allusion to several characters in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Actually this has nothing to do with the book or going to jail, but it is about an encounter in a cemetery, that was a little peculiar. OK, I have posted before about how my Fit Bit was creating new and interesting situations for me. I often, now, walk at night for a few blocks
We had Saturday dinner planned. Our daughter was flying home from Thunder Bay, ON and we were going to send out for her favourite chicken – Churrasco from a restaurant nearby. Everything was in order. Then the gremlins started to get into the works. Her flight was delayed; she wouldn’t be getting in until 10:00pm,
Dec 21, 1913, apparently, is the first time a crossword puzzle appeared in print. It was created by a journalist, Arthur Wynne and published in the New York World. It was instantly popular and has grown exponentially over the last 100 years to the delight of enthusiast, such as, myself. I like all sorts of
I have started reading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I’m not sure why it has taken me so long to get around to reading it, maybe I was a long time recovering from Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte), which my students invariably called Withering Heights. I’m not sure, if this was a reference to the book
I use Blogger for my posts. I am not always happy with their quirky twists and turns; but I am also not prepared to move seven years of blogs over to another platform. I can’t believe that I have had this weblog since 2006. OK some years I just posted a few pieces, however, this
My Fit Bit is pushing me that extra “bit.” First you have to know that it’s -11º C in Toronto, but I managed to do my 5,500 steps around the cemetery today, albeit bundled to the nines and virtually alone, except for a few stalwart souls, who were braving the cold or who had to
