blogging, travel

Alien Hand Syndrome

Well it’s “hump day” and my lunch for today has been cancelled so I am a little disorganized having to re-group. As a result, this is a short post. Phantom cheque I am always fascinated by “alien body parts,” mainly hands and feet. I wrote the other day of being drawn to a post about […]

Food

“Can she make a cherry pie, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?”

This delightful children’s song has been rolling around in my head all day. Every few years my cherry tree yields enough cherries for the squirrels, the birds, the blight and us. Surprise, surprise, this is one of those years. So now I have to get out there and pick some cherries. I have always said

Food, Toronto

A new Language……

……Brewerese!!! It was a lovely day yesterday and since enough members of the family were going down to support the “Pride” parade, my husband and I decided to go to Harbourfront to see if the tall ships were still there. Alas, they weren’t, however, there was a lot happening and we opted to stay for

Food, words

Cocktail Challenge……

……..or how the government entices us to drink more than we probably should!!! I live in Ontario (Canada), where 99% of all alcohol sales (except “run of the mill” beer sales) are controlled by the provincial government under the governing body known as The Liquor Control Board of Ontario or the LCBO. The LCBO has

blogging

Lighten up!!!!

I decided I needed to perk things up a little and since my daughter had mentioned a website “Glowcity” (I actually mistakenly called it “Glowworld” in my last post.) I decided to pop over and see what they had that was enlightening!! 1. They had lots of regulation “glow in the dark” sports balls for most

reality

Just Hit Refresh

I wish it were that simple. One of the problems with writing every day and every other day, the year before, is that you end up covering a lot of topics of general interest, a good number of obscure topics, since there are fewer of them, and if your area of “intense” interest (knitting) happens

poetry

Found Poetry

What to do when there is nothing else to do. Well, I often resort to Found Poetry. It’s an idle way of taking a preset arrangement of words and either re-arranging them or keeping them in the same order but putting in the “significant pauses” that make the words “poetry” or thoughtful comments on life.

unicorns

Utne Reader

When my kids were in school there were always fund raising projects and everyone contributed. One of these fund-raisers was a magazine campaign, where you subscribed to 4 or 5 magazines and renewed them each year. Since Mental Floss, subject of my last two posts, and Utne Reader were on the list, I ordered them.

blogging

Flossed Neurons and Blog Ideas!!

Yesterday I posted about an article from the website Mental Floss. I decided to “like” them on FB and subsequently receive their regular posts. Well, since yesterday, I have received 4 posts in 24 hours. That’s one post every 6 hours. Topics were as follows: 1. Twenty Facts About Your Favourite Liquors – this could turn

words

Mental Floss

I like the website Mental Floss. Actually I used to subscribe to their magazine. It is somehow linked to Mensa – the organization for people with IQs over 150 – not me! They actually have some pretty cool T-Shirts. So when a friend of mine posted an article from their site I couldn’t help but

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