I’m writing. Are you?
On January 4th, I accepted Jeff Goins’ challenge to write 500 words a day for each day of January 2014. I thought, Why not? And so I signed on, planning to use the challenge to work on a project left … Continue reading →
Patterns in winter
Have you ever really looked at the patterns made in snow, the ones made by nature. In one photo, I used auto-correct in my computer program to show the patterns better. (A different program may yield another result.) The rest … Continue reading →
500 words a day for January
Blogger and writer Jeff Goins challenged followers and readers to write 500 words a day for the month of January. I thought, I can do it. It’s fewer words than NaNoWriMo. It can be blogging, another writing project, but not … Continue reading →
Patterns in the snow
Early this morning I took some photos before the plough would come along, before the busyness of the day would trample the clean snow underfoot. By our side door, a drift stretching right to the backyard I used auto-enhance to … Continue reading →
I’ll go this way, you go that
It seems that someone or something likes to take a shortcut, even in winter. Perhaps I should say especially in winter with the temperatures into the minus double digits. Mature trees took a beating in the latest ice storm just … Continue reading →
Canadian Lutheran World Relief prepares its second shipment of sweaters
If you’ve been reading my blog through the fall, you will remember my post Sweaters For Syria. The project has met with favourable response and then some. Today we received a message from our pastor with an update from Canadian … Continue reading →
Canadian Writers Who are Christian–Lessons of the Year 2013
On December 18 I blogged over at Canadian Writers Who Are Christian, as I do each month. This being my last post for Canadian Writers blog in 2013, I wrote about lessons from this year in business and in life. … Continue reading →
Almost New Years–What are your goals for 2014?
We’re in the winter season in Canada. Time for walking in snow, but carefully on ice, of which we’ve had a lot already. It’s time for winter sports such as skating, toboganning and skiing. In the middle of winter on … Continue reading →
Stories Aloud–January 10th
January 10th 2014, open storytelling hosted by Baden Storytellers’ Guild at The Button Factory in Waterloo. Begins at 8 pm and goes until 10:30. Bring $5 and your own mug for hot apple cider and then settle in for stories. … Continue reading →
One Small Child–Ali Matthews
Christmas Day may be over, services celebrating the birth of Jesus, but are there not 12 days of Christmas? After the baby was born, shepherds would still have been telling others about the baby. The angels gone back to heaven, … Continue reading →