Today’s blogging prompt involves the number four in any form… four seasons, four cardinal directions, four suits in a deck of cards, four basic mathematical functions, four elements (earth, wind, air, and fire), and so forth. I thought about things that come in four and decided to talk about the four basic mathematical functions, as […]
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I did get a writing prompt in this morning’s email from Paul Taubman at the Ultimate Blogging Challenge. But for reasons that I can’t share yet, I’m going to put off that topic for about a week or so. You’re probably wondering… reasons that I can’t share yet? Exactly! I am going to make a
If I could only have a superpower… or two… Read More »
Yesterday evening, I got to have so much fun when I went to Orange Poppy Art Studio on Grand Island for a creative activity involving two things that I love: art and plants. It is always a delight to go into this studio, a small business run with great joy by its two owners, Bonnie
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I’m a day late for the end of the April A to Z blogging challenge, as there is no such thing as April 31st. But, hey, I finished in typical zig zag style, so it’s all good. I tried to be zealous in my approach to the challenge, to talk about how I have
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During the lockdown, when I couldn’t go anywhere, I still had books to take me to places both near and far and to different times, both in the past and the future. Some of the books, however, kept me grounded in our present times. They kept me focused on issues that face us as
It is hard to believe that one blogging challenge is about to end, and another one is about to start. But the fact that I am on the letter X tells me so. Every year, when I do the Blogging from A to Z challenge, I always scramble to find a word that starts with
Today, I had the opportunity to get blogging training, in advance of my next blogging challenge, the quarterly Ultimate Blogging Challenge. That is set to start on the first of May. The person running the training, Paul Taubman, has a website called Digital Maestro, and he is an expert in all things on line, which includes
W is for waka poetry Read More »
I was having a problem coming up with a word for the letter V. In fact, the problem was very vexing. I didn’t have a vision for V so I asked my sister, whose name just happens to be Vivian. She suggested the word “vivacious.” Interestingly enough Vivian and vivacious start with the same
V is for (Alice) Version 2.0 or maybe 3.1 Read More »
There are these memes on Facebook that I keep seeing, but I don’t share. They have these messages about what is useful and what isn’t. Or who is useful and who is just fluff, such as “We need truck drivers, but we don’t need politicians and movie stars.” It does seem to be unkind to
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Today, Grand Island celebrated both Earth Day and Arbor Day. This morning, people were out in every part of the island, picking up litter, either by themselves or in groups. Also, this morning, people could go to Veterans Park and pick up trees to plant in pots and, when big enough, in their yards. The
