Liebster Award
My blog has been awarded the Liebster Award by fellow blogger Violet Nesdoly, whose poetry I enjoy reading. She’s a novelist too. The deal with this award is to nominate other deserving blogs as well … Continue reading →
A big step from the Ice Breaker
The beginning of a new year is a good time to reflect on accomplishments and look forward to the next step—the next contest season and a speech for the International speech contest particularly. As I prepare to take a next … Continue reading →
Saturday Snapshots–Memories of a summer wedding
Our eldest daughter was married late August. Here are two photos from that day, one of me … Continue reading →
Learning from our grandmothers
We learn about who we are by exploring the history of our family. Storyteller Dan Yashinksy says in Suddenly There Were Footsteps that he is connected to his ancestors by stories his grandmother brought over from her native country. He … Continue reading →
Saturday Snapshot–Memories
A photo of my sister Mary and I, ready to walk to school. As you can see, we were dressed alike, right down to the … Continue reading →
Canadian Writers Who Are Christian–Turn over a new leaf
Today, the first day in 2013, a new year waiting for you. What are your hopes and dreams and plans? And who is included in those plans? This morning, I posted at Canadian Writers Who Are Christian. Go there and … Continue reading →
Page three of my autobiography
Yesterday I chose my own topic, to commemorate someone I knew. Today I’m going back to the WordPress Daily Prompt, The Early Years: Write page three of your autobiography. Photo: My one-room school was converted to apartments by the time I … Continue reading →
In memoriam for Darleen Clay
Instead of using the WordPress prompt today, I will pay respects to someone I know who died earlier this week. Darleen (on right) with Georgina Green ( photo used … Continue reading →
That Stings!
Daily Prompt: That Stings! Franz Kafka said, “We ought to read only books that bite and sting us.” What’s the last thing you read that bit and stung you? Recently, after my nineteen-year-old niece’s presentation about her trip to Ecuador with … Continue reading →
Immortalized in Stone
Today’s Challenge from WordPress December 27, 2012. Your personal sculptor is carving a person, thing or event from the last year of your life. What’s the statue of and what makes it so significant? Has Michelangelo come back to life … Continue reading →