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Emergency Opposum Update!
We gots one in our driveway tonight! Why, here's the varmint now: Actually, there are two of them that I saw, one big and one smaller. We surprised them and they trundled under our shed! I hereby rename our shed… -
8 Interesting Things I Learned in School This Year: Part V, Modern
6. Gertrude Stein, the famous modern author, said that no matter how hard she tried, she could not combine random words in such a way that no one could find meaning in them. The human mind is so ingenious. Nonetheles… -
Ladybug Season
Went out for a walk this afternoon and took a picture of one of the thousands of ladybugs inhabiting a hedge up the street. This is an Asian ladybug, but that is not its fault. It's still beautiful. -
8 Interesting Things I Learned in School This Year, Part IV: Canada
5. The frontier in Canadian literature has always been the north, rather than the west as for Americans. Canadians often write about transformative or disastrous forays into the wilderness. Here’s an intriguingly … -
8 Interesting Things I Learned in School This Year: Part III, Victorian
4. Matthew Arnold, a Victorian poet and literary critic, is to blame for everything you ever studied in English class, not to mention the way you studied it (did it ever seem to you that it was like worshipping a mi… -
8 Interesting Things I Learned in School This Year, Part II: The Renaissance
3. There’s no such thing as a “definitive” version of a play by Shakespeare. He didn’t seem to care about books – he just wanted to see his plays onstage. For centuries, editors have been deciding for their readers h… -
8 Interesting Things I Learned in School This Year
Sometimes I feel a tad isolated in my dogged pursuit of a university degree as an older student. I started a new blogring, Mature Students of the World Unite!, and in honour of it I decided to reflect on my wide-rang… -
Watch a bald eagle on her nest
Click here to check out this bald eagle momma (and sometimes it's the daddy) on two eggs. Apparently they will hatch in the next day or two. Check out the forum too, it has great snapshots. I am so amazed at the wo… -
Spring flowers in the rain
Courtesy of my garden, smell the cool fresh aroma of new leaves and flowers just opening up on a rainy day. *inhale slowly* *exhale slowly, with big silly smile* -
Today's photo survey
This little survey is going the rounds, but I thought I’d list only one thing under each category – that way I can illustrate. A thing to do before I die: Revisit Aix-en-Provence, France, where I studied in 1987-88 … -
Wishful thoughts for early spring
Here it's only just the time for daffodils, and only willows are showing tiny green leaves.... I wish spring would hurry up. While I complete my degree, I am living on the 9th floor of a lovely apartment building with… -
ANYTHING to hang out with Oscar Wilde!
CuriousGeorgina's Reason for Travelling Back in Time:To make fun of the upper-class with Oscar WildeTake this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com Where would you go? My actual top three choices: Battle of Hastings, to yell "look o… -
50-word short story entry
Debutante Denouement The slim young woman sidesteps silkily through the celebration, champagne bubbles winking from flute in gloved hand, floats on chic heels, apart, to a sunset balcony, where with fateful fizz he … -
Webcam Wub
How many people exchange their daily dose of spousal support and appreciation in this way? Well, it can work... sort of.... for a while........ but I can't wait to get home! -
My New Life
Yes, it's been a year since I posted. I think this summer I'll become active again. But what a year it has been! I have gotten married. That was a fun, light-hearted, elegant occasion planned in only six weeks. My th…
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