words

Glossolalia

Years ago I heard the term Glossolalia. Biblically it means speaking in tongues – uttering incomprehensible syllables, usually as part of a religious experience. Although it has strong links with Christianity, it is also a practice used by shamans, the Oracle of Delphi and really bad actors 🙂 This got me thinking of all the […]

travel

Exotic House Sitting

I decided to write about this because I wanted to make sure that I didn’t lose the websites. So this is sort of a selfish reason for sharing, but it also looks like a lot of fun!! There are apparently a number of websites that link people together for the purpose of house sitting.  That

words

Nothing…..

OK today I keyed the word “nothing” into the title bar of my MAC desperately looking for something to write about (about which to write.) The results were proof that nothing really is something because… 1. Lots of sites came up on the topic of “nothing,” which shows that people are entertained, educated and/or diverted

reality

Not Exactly Fast Food…

Another FB post from Mental Floss made me laugh so hard I nearly cried. It’s a post about animals that are illegal on planes, however, some people just don’t get it. First there was the fellow who tried to take his pet turtle on a plane by hiding it in a hamburger bun. Slow food

words

Something….

Sometimes, when I need an idea, I key a word into my title bar to see what google produces. A while ago, I keyed in the word “today” and a few interesting topics surfaced. Today I keyed in the word “something.” Well, this website called “The Something Store” came up. The idea is that you

words

Ling-a-ling-ling

I was reading an article that was posted to my FB wall the other day on the use of the noun ending “ling” as in gosling. Apparently adding the “ling” ending to a phrase to create a noun, began as far back as old English with words such as, frumberdling – a teenager with peach

reality

Psychic Phenomenon

Lately I’ve been divining posts a lot. That is, I have been looking more and more at the links to other posts that I see at the bottom of the page. It happened again today. I don’t even remember the original post, but I was fascinated by a link to “6 Unusual Jobs That Pay

poetry

Bad Day

Somedays are better than others and on a bad day I often turn to poetry to put things in perspective or as a distraction. I do like the site Poetry 180. It always comes up in a poetry search, even when I am looking for a poem for a specific day and don’t necessarily want

reality, unicorns

Bullet Pudding and other games of chance

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,

Art, reality

100 years of T-Shirts

2013 has been declared the anniversary year of the T-shirt. Apparently in 1913 the US navy issued T-shirts, as undergarments, to its sailors and well things just evolved from there. An article in the Toronto Star this morning on the evolution of the T-Shirt describes how it has gone from white undergarment to celebrated overgarment

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