Search engine queries from the last two months. 1. What would happen if the Americans gained control of the Niagara Peninsula? They’d probably end up annexing the rest of Canada, too. The U.S. has 312 million citizens…Canada only has about 34 million. 2. Is a quiet husband better than a boisterous one? Yes. 3. How…
Author Archives: Lydia
The Sea Cucumber
you see there was this sea cucumber and normally they don’t talk but for the sake of the story… Last week someone typed that run-on sentence into a search engine and ended up here. I don’t know who you are. I probably never will. But this is what happened next: she did. What she didn’t have…
Suggestion Saturday: April 14, 2012
Here is this week’s list of blog posts, comics and other tidbits from my favourite corners of the web. A Man and His Hummingbird. Start with one injured baby hummingbird. Add a concerned human. Mix well. Serve immediately. How to Start a Fire. This is exactly what it sounds like. I don’t know why I found…
Wind Up That Yarn
Many years ago I read a fable about a boy who discovered he could fast-forward through life by pulling on the edge of a magical ball of yarn. School is boring? Let’s jump ahead to graduation. Can’t wait to have enough money to get married? Skip to the wedding. Tired of waking up with a…
Suggestion Saturday: April 7, 2012
Here is this week’s list of blog posts, videos and other tidbits from my favourite corners of the web. I’ll Protect You. Had a long week? Click here for a virtual hug. When Online Friends Aren’t the Same In Person. Funny! From Could Imposter Syndrome Learn from Sports? And while these tales of achievement and shining sources…
Wild Card Wednesday: How Far You Go In Life
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong…because sometime in your life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver
Three Questions About Earth Hour
This past Saturday millions of men, women and children turned off the lights to observe something called Earth Hour. I first heard about this phenomenon a few years ago. It’s a nobel idea but I have a few questions about how it works: 1) Why are we focusing on what individuals consume when most waste is created…
Suggestion Saturday: March 31, 2012
Here is this week’s list of blog posts, comics, twitter feeds, videos and other tidbits from my favourite corners of the web. I’ve never done this before on Suggestion Saturday but if you have a Twitter account go follow @vulgar_tongue. They tweet entries from the 1811 edition of Francis Grose’s Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, a directory…
Iraqi Woman Murdered in California
[Shaima] Alawadi, a mother of five, had been hospitalized since her 17-year-old daughter found her unconscious Wednesday in the family’s house in El Cajon, police Lt. Steve Shakowski said. The daughter, Fatima Al Himidi, told KUSI-TV her mother had been beaten on the head repeatedly with a tire iron, and that the note said “go back…
A Response to Picking Up the Best Bits
Olivia at Reading in the Bath recently had something interesting to say about her experiences with online childfree groups: So one of the things I’ve enjoyed about sticking around in a few different groups for a while and getting past all the (to me) slightly awkward ‘I like children…with sauce’ jokes, is that I’ve found…
