On this page the following entries were made in the “December, 2010” time-frame.
Archive for “December, 2010”
Happy New Year – Pay It Forward
I’ve noticed a number of 2010-summary type blog posts the past week. I felt a bit of peer pressure – should I do one? Then two tiny incidents happened today, and I felt a need to share. The Supermarket Queue Here in Denmark, supermarkets close early on December 31st. I went to the shop to [...]
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That’s Just Nuts! – Speaking Out About the Unspoken
A dear friend of mine shared a cute gimmick of a bag of peanuts stapled to a peanut-shaped card. The photo shows the front and back of this card, which is from a 2005 campaign by the Mood Disorders Association of Ontario, Canada. I think mental health is an invisible disability that gets too little [...]
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It was a dark and stormy night
In my technical writing circles, the name of Edward Bulwer-Lytton is well-known for a writing contest. The contest is to write a deliberately bad opening line for an awful novel, for example, something beginning with “It was a dark and stormy night…” Well, that’s the beginning of a line by Bulwer-Lytton. He may have been [...]
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A Tale of Bread
Nic Steenhout‘s photo of fresh-baked bread sent me more than 30 years back in time. I’ve always loved baking bread. I know I learned to bake bread when I was a teenager, but I have few recollections of those breads. I know some were sweet and most were incredibly flat and heavy despite being baked [...]
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