What’s the worst advice you’ve ever been given?
Looking back, there’s one heck of a lot of bad advice in life – and that’s only counting the pieces of advice we don’t have quite enough sense (or enough self-confidence?) to ignore at the time. Not even talking about fortune cookies, here, or the bright ideas your Facebook friends can come up with for you to do. (more…)
So you never got around to making those New Year's Resolutions? Nuhuh, me neither. But it's still not too late. -- we've got 364 days ahead yet, after all, so in the worst case we can get a jump on next year.
What catches me in the back of the throat, every year the same, is the sudden deep boom of the cannons' salute. Those big guns echo down the years and…
My sister-in-law, the mad daylily collector, was among 2000 who rocked our local Run for the Cure this past weekend, to help to raise funds for breast cancer research. She's…
Do you know about Alltop.com? It’s sort of a “digital magazine rack” serving up the “best of the best” news stories from across the Internet. Sounds impressive, no? All the cool kids hang out there — and now, it seems, you and I do too! (more…)
As those of you following the Canadian news (or my other River/Road post) may gather… we’ve had a spot of flooding, here in the St. John River valley of New Brunswick. And as I said yesterday,
When Nature gets nasty, know what we do around here?
We rush out and take pictures, of course.
Especially those of us who live up on high ground.
Here are the flood photos that He Who Hogs The Power Tools took yesterday and this afternoon, while I wandered about with the dog and chatted with other flood watchers:
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So, we're watching the river rise in the St. John River valley... feeling grateful for living up on very high ground... and the radio says this could be the worst…