Natasha Deen's Blog, page 33

Well said, Dustin Hoffman

Way to make my day!

Got this from one of the Edmonton librarians:Thanks so much Natasha!The teen writing camp is always a big hit and the kids and parents are so appreciative of the time you spend with them.

Added to my list of things I didn’t know…

one doctor’s unusual solution to get funding for his pioneering work on baby incubators in the 1920s.

Just my opinion…

but I feel like the country that gave the world maple syrup, hockey, William Shatner shouldn’t also be the country who gave the world the largest dating site for cheating spouses. Oh, Canada. Sigh.

The whole thing has felt like an episode from one of my favourite crime dramas. A seedy company. Their clients outed, but the larger questions of vigilantism, privacy, and the sliding subjectivity of morality hanging over the sensational news updates like a shadow…

Sigh…

Starting the Day, Right

The best-worst thing about being a writer is that–short of deadlines imposed by publishers–is that it’s a business of one. Which means, trying to find motivation and energy to write and spend 8 hours a day sitting in front of a computer can be a difficult thing to do.
One of the things I’ve come to learn is that (for me) the productivity of my day depends on how I start it. If I start the day with a mix of early-morning-easy and moderate activity, it seems to energize me to sit through edits,...

Nice Quotes

“I say, ‘Get me some poets as managers.’ Poets are our original systems thinkers. They contemplate the world in which we live and feel obligated to interpret, and give expression to it in a way that makes the reader understand how that world runs. Poets, those unheralded systems thinkers, are our true digital thinkers. It is from their midst that I believe we will draw tomorrow’s new business leaders.”
–Sidney Harman, CEO Multimillionaire of a stereo components company” “Being a professiona...

Lessons from my fence

My life is blessed for many reasons, one of which is the house I live in. I’m one of the lucky people whose backyard borders a patch of land the city has chosen not to develop. A quick walk out my back gate and I have a lovely park for my dogs. On early mornings, I have the gentle rustle of trees to keep me company as I have my first cop of tea.

The downside has been the same as the upside: the trees. Over the course of two decades, they have grown, lush, full, gorgeous…and leaned on the fenc...

Love it!

Thank you cards that verge on slightly creepy always make me giggle!!

Great clip from interview

The Rev. John Black, of the Campbell Chapel AME Church in Bluffton, S.C., talks to NPR’s Arun Rath about grief, forgiveness and rebirth:

BLACK: Well, I think we’re at the point now of moving forward, so I’m going to start a sermon series on Sunday dealing with the symbol of the eagle. And the first sermon, of course, will be the eagle in the storm. It will be the beginning of calling us to our higher level of being, you know? We have two natures, and I want to call us to our eagle nature and...