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5 on Friday - Set 161

Travis at  Trav's Thoughts  invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.
This week, Canada lost one of its most unifying forces - singer-songwriter  Stompin' Tom Connors .
Passing away at age 77, Stompin' Tom left us this letter which he released to the media:
"Hello friends,
I want all my fans, past, present, or future, to know that without you, there would not have been any Stompin' Tom.
It was a long hard bumpy road, b...

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5 on Friday - Set 160

Travis at  Trav's Thoughts  invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.
Last weekend's Oscars put me in the mood for the Bond theme, which led me to this week's collection of my favorite spy show/spy film themes.
1 -  James Bond Theme  - John Barry




2 - Spooks/MI-5 - Jennie Muskett




3 -  Zvezdochet/The Astrologer  - Aleksey Shelygin
This is the Russian spy series my husband a...

Thursday Thirteen - 268 - 13 Things About My Latest Adventures With My Bad Knee

1 – Anyone with a knee injury involving torn ligaments and cartilage has likely discovered over the years that it will make a return engagement from time to time. The photo above is from 2008, when I re-injured my bad knee and had to use my late Gram's cane to get around.

If anyone has seen me slowly making my way around with Gram's cane this week, you'll know that I'm in another season of re-injury. 

2 – The original injury happened twenty years ago. I was captain of a team doin...

5 on Friday Set 159

Travis at  Trav's Thoughts  invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.
Happy February Birthdays to these birthday girls!
1 -  There Are Worse Things I Could Do  - Stockard Channing - Grease soundtrack




2 - The Closer I Get to You - Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway




3 -  This Will Be  - Natalie Cole



4 - Vissi D'arte  - from Tosca composed by Puccini - ...

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The Next Big Thing Blog Hop

The Next Big Thing is a blog hop, where a published author or unpublished writer is given the opportunity to answer ten questions about their current WIP. They then tag four more writers, who will post about their respective WIPs the following week and pass this invitation on to four more writers to keep The Next Big Thing going.

In November 2012 I was tagged by sci-fi suspense author Charlene L. Roberts for the blog hop, but at that point I was just finishing up NaNoWriMo . So I thou...

5 on Friday - Set 158

Travis at  Trav's Thoughts  invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.
This week's set features songstresses who are also dancers.  
1 -  Try  - P!nk
This pas de deux is amazing. Truly.
Slight caution: it does include dance vocabulary that is very aggressive.




2 - Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush





3 -  Hung Up  - Madonna




4 - Hollaback Girl  - Gwen Stefani




5 - ...

Thursday Thirteen - 266 - 13 Ways to Say I Love You All Year Long

Happy Valentine's Day!

Here are thirteen ways to say 'I love you' after the flowers and heart-shaped chocolates:

1 – Call your honey from work, then say, "I'm going to keep calling you every half hour to say 'I love you.'"

Then make sure you call in a half hour. 

2 – Try new things together. Remember when you first met, and everything was fresh and exciting? Change it up and you'll feel that breath of fresh air. 

3 – Does your partner love Japanese horror flicks? Do you lo...

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