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Saskatoon Berry Soup on Bannock ...makes Zantoon Trifle! an Invented Name One of the women at the Cree language lesson I attended - where I got to eat this amazingly delicious dessert - invented the word Zantoon as I was photographing the food. I explained the pics were for the blog, and that I was going... Continue Reading →
I was looking through Mom's massive collection of photo albums - gleaning them for prime photographs to make the photo board display you see here today - when I stumbled on a photo of myself. 5 years old, wearing the green ballet dress she made for me to dance as a flower in the end-of-year... Continue Reading →
Day 26 of the A-Z Blogging Challenge and the letter Z. Thanks for Zen. Check out the Zemanta fed articles. Come in for some Zen (yogijanan.wordpress.com) is about a performance art installation. ...and while we're on Z, a big THANK YOU to Zemanta! You do a great job! Related articles Gratitude for the "Stink of Zen"... Continue Reading →
Day 25 of the A-Z Blogging Challenge and the letter Y. 400-word ramble through my thoughts on YouTube advertising. YouTube! Where would we be without YouTube! On-demand, make/publish/choose-your-own-content television. Wow! What more could we ask for? The freedom to create and broadcast our own video content and watch, at our leisure, content created by others.... Continue Reading →
Day 24 of the A-Z Blogging Challenge and the letter X. Thanks for X The letter X always draws me up short in the A-Z blogging challenge. Today is no eXception. I did the Xylophone in my first A-Z...and today I have nothing for the letter X. My brain is X'd out in the X words... Continue Reading →
Day 23 of the A-Z Blogging Challenge and the letter W Thanks for WordPress and the WayBack Machine. WordPress.com hosts this blog, and many more! 64,681,942 at the time of writing! But WordPress is much more than wordpress.com and its blogging platform. It's also a popular Content Management System (CMS). So popular, lots of web developers... Continue Reading →
Day 22 of the A-Z Blogging Challenge and the letter V. Thanks for Victoria and Vancouver Island. Out cycling along the seafront today, I got off and walked awhile and chatted with a woman from Estonia. She was resting on a bench, her walking poles propped beside her. "What's the best place?" she asked. "The... Continue Reading →
Day 21 of the A-Z Blogging Challenge and the letter U. Thanks for the Ukulele and the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain The ukulele well-played has commanding simplicity and passion. I like Smells Like Teen Spirit, and this version. The song is imbibed with Nirvana and Kurt Cobain's raw energy; and the ukulele brings that out beautifully,... Continue Reading →
Day 20 of the A-Z Blogging Challenge and the letter T. Thanks for Timing I'm talking about music and metronomes, and all the players in a band being together and on time. What does that mean for the singer? It means the singer needs be on time with the band. Being on time... Continue Reading →
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