It’s about 9:30am and I’m having tea and toast for breakfast, while reading The Cremation of Sam McGee. I have a beautifully illustrated version with paintings by Ted Harrison and an introduction by Pierre Berton. It’s a keeper. However I am not sure that it’s breakfast reading. Yes, it’s getting cold out there, but it […]
……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
Five Minute Friday’s word for 5 minutes of writing today is “together.” So here goes – There are days when I don’t feel that together. You know, you are in one place, but your mind is miles away. Maybe it’s in the past re-visiting a moment there or maybe it’s in the future, realizing an
The weather these days has been more like November than October, so I decided to wear my winter coat. Now I get attached to things and a warm coat that works – which means…… 1. It has lots of pockets. 2. It fits. 3. It’s long enough to cover those parts of the legs that
……Sometimes my posts only come together when the stars align. Today I was reading a post by a popular blogger, who is also a published author, Stephen King. No not that Stephen King. The Stephen King that I am referring to is a.k.a. TOSK – The Other Stephen King. Anyway, Stephen writes Fantasy and wrote
In an earlier post I talked about Kickstarter.com and mentioned a project that a designer, I know, is hoping to get off the ground. Today, I decided to take a look at some of the other projects on the site. I hadn’t gone very far when I saw FlyKly. Just to put things in perspective, my
Have you heard of Kickstarter.com? I hadn’t until yesterday. It is a site that garners funding for art and other creative projects. I found out about it because a knitting designer that I have known for years wanted to publish her video on stranded knitting, however, she didn’t have the funds to do it. Enter
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,
