I know that Sunday isn’t the best time to post but I’m too happy to care. There is sun and blue sky today, and there was sun and blue sky yesterday. I skated with my family this morning and I walked with A yesterday, just the two of us, hand in hand, for 3 hours. […]
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A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Site Meter
I must be the last blogger on earth to know about site meter and to install it. I learned about it from Emily’s blog. So just just in case there is someone else out there unfamiliar with it, I want to pass along the favour. Site meter tracks visitors to your blog or website. WordPress […]
A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Sunshine and Gratitude
For the view outside my window, golden leaves against a blue sky, I’m grateful, and for the squirrel that skitters across the flat roof to visit, though he won’t sit for a photo, too. For ice skating with A, hand in hand this morning, for my older daughter’s wrist in my hand as I pulled […]
A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: More Inspiration
This falls into the never too late department. Fauja Singh ran his first marathon at age 89. He began running when he was 80 to cope with family losses. His background isn’t in athletics: he was a farmer. Coming here from England, this Sunday, he hopes to set a world record for the books in […]
350 or bust: An Unconventional Performance
The New Hot 5, a New Orleans-style jazz band, plays on a small hill in France to an unusual, but attentive, audience: Have a great Saturday!
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: New Blog!
Writers have so many ways of procrastinating. But this one is constructive and has a higher purpose…seriously. I was inspired by the bookclub Slaves of Golconda. When I was asked to suggest a few books for our next reading, I thought it would be fun and interesting to come up with a list of recent, […]
A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: today’s smile: top cat
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Continue readingThings Are Good: Gamers Solve AIDS Enzyme Puzzle
If you thought playing games was just for fun, well Foldit is a game that has people solve problems for science. That itself is pretty neat, but what pushes this one over the edge is that Foldit has brought some great results and fast!
Developed in 2008 by the University of Washington, it is a fun-for-purpose […]
A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Low Tech and High Tech
Today there was construction on my street and I have a cold. The combination of noise and brain fog meant no work. Instead I listened to music and sewed in the most low tech way, with a needle and thread. I am not a great sewer but I enjoy it greatly. There is something peaceful […]
A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: First Reading of Web of Angels
This was on my desk when I arrived home yesterday. I’d spent most of the day at the first McLaughlin Literary Festival in Oshawa, all of my wired energy drained by the time I got home. And then this, made by my younger daughter, and pointed out to me by my older daughter. It was […]
The Skwib: Fun, fun, fun
Nudity Probable from the irregulars on Vimeo.
Alltop always walks into a room butt-first.
A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: today’s awwww…baby tigers
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Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: epic rap: dr. seuss vs shakespeare
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Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: today’s smile
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Continue readingThings Are Good: A Game That Protects Nature
A new FAcebook game has been launched that allows you to help the planet while you play. It’s called MyConservationPark and it’s made by Good World Games.
MyConservationPark is a socially conscious Facebook game that places you in charge of building and managing a protected wildlife reserve. Create and sustain a livable habitat for your […]
Things Are Good: Good Bikes on the Streets of Toronto
The Good Bike project is bringing colour to the streets of Toronto. Bright neon bicycles are celebrating aspects of Toronto, they really are eye-catching.
Over the past few weeks, more than 30 brightly painted bicycles, a few featuring baskets of potted plants, have popped up all over the city—orange at Queen and Dovercourt, blue at Dundas […]
Things Are Good: A Really Good Ad Campaign
People For Good wants to remind you to do good things everyday. Throughout Canada mysterious ads have appeared promoting People For Good and it turns out it’s a few marketers who wanted to take a break from selling things and wanted to sell good ideas.
People For Good’s website is filled with small very easy […]
A Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: A Hike to the Secret Passage
Last Friday and Saturday morning, before higher temperatures required me to do nothing but lie on the couch and read, A and I got up at 6:00 am to hike. We walked eastward along the railroad tracks to Carruthers’ Woods, from there to an abandoned railway track, down to the Brick Works, and along the […]
Things Are Good: Craft Brewers Revive Local Economies
A bunch of towns in the USA have had to close their manufacturing plants as free trade and the global economy transplant jobs elsewhere. This has left a lot of people unemployed and a lot of warehouse and manufacturing space open. The surplus of space has given a great opportunity to craft brewers whose sales […]
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Cakes and Ale: A Review
I read Cakes and Ale by Somerset Maugham for the Slaves of Golconda bookclub. Written in 1930, it is narrated by the midlist writer William Ashenden. As a young man in the 1890′s, Ashenden knew the British literary icon, Edward Driffield (ostensibly based on Thomas Hardy, which Maugham denied). At that time Driffield was a […]