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Liebster Award – have you been nominated?

I have been nominated for a blogging award, The Liebster, by a star blogger Muriel Jacques. This is indeed an honour! The procedure is as follows: 1. Answer the 11 questions asked by Muriel. 2. Nominate 11 new bloggers. 3. Create 11 questions for them to answer.. So here goes – Muriel’s question and then […]

poetry

The Business of Poetry

Yesterday in the Toronto Star (newspaper) there was a small article about an upcoming poetry competition. Now I brake for poetry!! So I stopped and read the rules: 1. The poems must be taken from the words and topics published in the paper. 2. The competition starts in November. 3. Poems should be no longer

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Death By Soap Dish II

The other day I posted about my “problem” finding an inexpensive soap dish for our new shower wall. I finally caved in and decided to drive out to this store that was listed as having the only $5.00 soap dish in the world, that one could screw into a shower wall. It was miles away

Art, Toronto

Nuit Blanche Huit, Deux

Yesterday I posted about the all night Art party that Toronto has hosted for the last 8 years, Nuit Blanche. I had taken a few more pictures, so this post will be more of an album of the evening. I’m still behind a few posts in my blog-a-day challenge for 2013. I hope that you

Art, Toronto

Nuit Blanche Huit

Last Saturday was Toronto’s 8th Nuit Blanche, an amazing all night Art event. From 7:00pm to 7:00am huge crowds fill the downtown areas of the city to view an incredible array of art installations. My husband and I have gone out every year, rain or shine. This time, the weather was almost balmy, with just

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Death by Soap Dish….maybe

I am slowly mending the pieces of my life that decided to fall apart this month. OK it is Fall, but do we have to take it literally!! First, we managed to get a contractor to install a new shower in the bathroom, after the old one started leaking. Two weeks without a shower is,

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Hot Deal

Yesterday, I wrote about how the cosmos was ganging up on me and starting to slowly dismantle all the bits and bobs that help me glue my life together, like dinner!! How could I keep everything from falling apart, if I couldn’t cook a hot meal from time to time. You see, my stove quit

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Home on the Range….

I wasn’t aware that there was some secret date upon which the cosmos decrees that your life should fall apart, or at least the pieces that make your life enjoyable such as: 1. Showers – Some time in late August our bathroom shower decided to fall apart – tiles fell off the wall, shower heads

poetry, words

What in the Samhain….?

The celtic feast of Samhain is Oct 31. It’s a time when the veil between our world and the nether world, the world of spirits, is very thin. I have written about Samhain before. It is a time of mourning, a time of connecting with those who have gone before us and a time of

words

T9 and the Next Generation

Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 We all know that language changes over time. Words come into a lexicon because of new inventions or processes and other words leave, becoming obsolete, as objects and customs disappear. Word usage also changes to facilitate pronunciation or to move from an irregular to a regular formation. For example we rarely, if

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