reality

Live to 100

I was reading an article the other day in the newspaper by some one who had visited the site www.livingto100.com. Apparently, you can key in certain family or lifestyle characteristics and the site will estimate how long you have to live – just the cheeriest place on earth 🙂  Anyway, I have chosen not to […]

Art

Ozmopolitan

On Saturday I got to enjoy my Christmas present from my eldest son. He had bought tickets to see Andrew Lloyd Weber’s “The Wizard of Oz.” We went together with his partner.  I was thrilled. My husband isn’t a great fan of musicals so he may get tickets to a ballgame in May or June.

words

On the naming of parts…or something like that…

Here are some more ideas for naming children after cars or their parts 🙂 I just had to explore this idea of choosing names for children a little more.  Celebrities often select their stage names for effect – “Lady Gaga” is one. “Madonna” happens to use her own name and some people think that Englebert

words

Icicles and the things that drop from eaves

Eavesdropping is an interesting word and an interesting action.  At one point in history people were fined for listening in on the conversations of others, which happened when one stood very close to another’s home in the area where “things” dropped from the eaves. Historically, there was also a hole in the home, near the

words

A rose by any other name……

I am following the story of a young woman in Iceland who wants to legalize her name – her first name. Apparently in Iceland there is a list of approved names for both male and female children – 1,712 for males and 1,853 for females – this may be grounds for another post. I sense

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Thirteen

Since we are still hovering around the changing of the years, I thought that I would sneak this one in quickly before we are well into 2013 when everyone will be saying 13 – get over it! This is why 2013 is going to be a special year!!!! 1. 13 degrees is the distance the

gardening

Winter Gardens…

When we first set out to plant our inner city garden about 30 years ago, we decided that we wanted a garden for all seasons. Planting for Spring to Fall was easy, given that we already had a full sized Sugar Maple growing there. A winter garden would take some thought, as the garden was

poetry, words

Of Paradoxes, Ironies and Oxymora

In an earlier post I suggested that I would look up the origin of the word Oxymoron, because it contained the word “moron.” So hear’s the scoop!  “Oxy” comes from the Greek word for “sharp” and “moron” comes from the Greek word for “dull.” Put them together and you have “sharp/dull” or words of opposite

unicorns, words

A new beginning….

The other day I was reminded of a phrase I hadn’t used in a while – “In my end is my beginning and in my beginning is my end.” I happen to love oxymorons and I have just made a mental note to look up the origin of the word (another post) because it does

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Bells, whistles and gongs….

Tonight somewhere bells will ring, horns will blast, people will cheer and a new dawn will break!!! We will be collectively handed a blank page to start again. Already my husband and I are tentatively blocking parts of the new year into segments of who is going to be home and when, as far as

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