NaNoWriMo a.k.a. NaBloPoMo. Now that would be National Novel Writing Month which actually started out as National Blog Posting Month. November is a month of “mo’s” or is that Movember. Anyway an editorial in The Star today said that last year more that 250,000 people signed up on the NaNoWriMo website with the intent to […]
Today is a repost from another Remembrance Day… Remembrance Day is the one day of the year that I read “In Flanders Fields.” It is all about being connected, about paying back in some small, more like infinitesimal way, the great debt that we owe to those who did not make it back from the
I have been a little remiss in posting, many apologies…..I could say that I was adjusting to the time change….or I have a few things brewing that may surface shortly….or that I am just lazy….that would at least be honest…..anyway – it’s all of the above. But I have to post this picture of a
We went out yesterday for a small event on a short street in Toronto – Elm St. They were hosting a tasting and entertainment venue with “nibblies” from the many and varied restaurants on the street. They spiced up these treats with street performers, ice sculptures and of course a parade of the curious, ourselves
“Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigue, I have had my vision.” –Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927) And now for the best last lines – these are the crusts – first & last lines – you just need to add the filler 🙂 1. “I lingered round them, under that benign
In honour of NaBloPoMo – National Novel Writing Month – I found a site that has collected some of the “better” worse opening lines of a novel, after “It was a dark and stormy night….” Since 1982 the English department at San Jose State University has sponsored the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a whimsical literary competition
Yesterday there was an article in The Globe about a “Dreamachine.” This is a device that has been around in some form or other for over 50 years. Well, two Canadians from Ft. Erie and Niagara Falls, respectively – have decided to do a commercial run of about 650 machines that will be available on-line
Well, it’s still raining and it rained on Hallowe’en too. We didn’t have a lot of kids out and the ones that braved the steady pour looked very wet. This is so sad. Hallowe’en is one of the few holidays that kids from all backgrounds can enjoy together – they/we need a break!! On the
This is an extension of an earlier post that has had a few “clicks” lately. I was following someone who was using the letters of the alphabet to create posts using 3 words that begin with that letter. This post was for the letter “X.” I have extended the post with a fictional account of
Really I have it from a reliable internet source, that yesterday was National Magic day. Maybe the main magic of the day was that the storm, although fierce, was controlled and although lives were lost, many were saved. Many people prayed for each other and sent powerful messages of hope through the ether. We had
