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July 5, 2010
*Monday July 5/10
Erupting Aurora – Eyjafjallajökull Eruptioin, originally uploaded by orvaratli.
The photographer was hoping to get a picture of an erupting volcano. Disappointment turned to appreciation when instead the aurora appeared. I had some disappointing news today; it was not disastrous. But my heart fell anyway and I was filled with doubt. So my task today, in this heatwave (34C or 93F), is to look for the aurora.
Filed under: A Monday Moment, Nature & Science Tagged: Iceland aurora
July 1, 2010
June 30, 2010
*Graduation
This was my first child yesterday:
M 2003, click to enlarge
And today:
M and friends, grade 6 graduation, soft focus
In April 1999, I'd just come back from Europe to the news that the referral for our first baby was on the way. I had to go to New York for an interview with A&E the day the courier was to deliver the information. I called home every hour. "Did it come yet?" No, A told me. Finally I called for the last time that day, in the airport while waiting for my plane to take me home. "Did...
June 28, 2010
*The Quickening Maze
Within the first few pages of The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds, I sighed with pleasure because I could tell that I was in the hands of a writer who knew what he was doing. I could feel the competence, the control of language, structure and story from the start and it never flagged.
This is a novel about the people associated with a private insane asylum in 1840's England: Dr. Matthew Allen, the director of the asylum, Hannah, his teenage daughter, the famous nature poet John Clare, who is a...
*It's Never Too Late
Myrrha Stanford-Smith, an 82 year old writer, is seeing her first novel published. Not only that…it's a three book deal!
The Brighton-born writer secured herself a deal with publisher Honno, for a trilogy based around her swashbuckling Elizabethan hero Nick Talbot.
The adventure reignites, in fictional form, the rivalry between William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.
Ms Stanford-Smith said of the deal: "I was gobsmacked. I had to put the phone down and ring them back as I was so taken...
G20: What the News Left Out
For my friends in the U.S., UK, Australia, New Zealand, China, South Africa, Europe, and Brampton:
H/T The Vanity Press
That happened where I walk along Queen Street to pick up fabric and sewing machine needles, beads and silver chain. I'll be there on Wednesday with my children, having a mother-daughters' date.
On Saturday night, when we were out for an ice cream, we saw smoke in the distance and talked about the peaceful protesters and how the issues are not being reported, how the thousands ...
*Monday June 28/10
20050708_0060_SL300R_Aya_in_Neimenggu_China, originally uploaded by *Leiss.
Filed under: A Monday Moment, Art & Photography Tagged: camel shadow
June 27, 2010
*Consider Your Skin
This site gives information and safety ratings for cosmetics and personal care products. You can search a product or category, and if you click on "hazard score" the results are in order from safest to most risky, the lower the number the better.
Results are surprising. I have dumped my sun screen and bought zinc oxide based sun screen instead. I also was surprised at ratings for lip balm, which isn't as much of an issue in summer but is in winter when my kids, who lick their lips, use it...
June 24, 2010
*Sunset from Space
Sunset from International Space Station (click to enlarge)
Filed under: Nature & Science Tagged: space station
*A Celebration of Women Writers
If you're not familiar with this website, you need to check it out. It is a comprehensive digital library of women's writing which is freely available (copyright expired) as well as links to current women authors. For example, I'm listed on this page. But what is so exciting about this site are the ebooks. You can browse or search by name, country, ethnicity, or time period.
It is exciting because women's voices are so often lost or dismissed and here they are, gathered into one place...
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