Today was the first afternoon that felt like summer. What a perfect time to resurface this recipe for a lime freeze!
(And also a perfect time to lounge around drinking said lime freeze. Just saying.)
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Posts Tagged ‘#365Ways’
A Summer’s Day
Posted in Food and..., tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, hot!, Thoughts on May 19, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Stop Worrying
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, confidence, creativity, Thoughts, Writers, writing on May 18, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
— David Foster Wallace
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Legend Reads Legend
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, alice-munro, Fiction, goals, inspiration, short stories, the greats, Writers, writing on May 17, 2024| Leave a Comment »
You may have seen that Canadian author and Nobel laureate Alice Munro passed away this week. A prolific titan of the short story genre, she published her first story in 1950 and continued to produce award-winning work in the many decades since. When asked how she got started in short stories, she said it was because that’s all she had time for.
She certainly made it work.
Here, award-winning Canadian author Margaret Atwood reads Dance of the Happy Shades by Alice Munro.
In this exclusive recording, The Handmaid’s Tale author reads the eponymous short story from the late Munro’s first collection in 1968.
If you’d like to read more of Munro’s work, here are 25 Alice Munro Stories You Can Read Online Right Now.
Enjoy!
“A story is not like a road to follow … it’s more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last time. It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.”
― Alice Munro, Selected Stories
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Better than Ever
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, Motivation, Thoughts, Writers, writing on May 16, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.”
— Ken Venturi
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An Astronaut’s Closet
Posted in Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, astronauts, NASA, space, space exploration on May 15, 2024| Leave a Comment »
What’s in an astronaut’s closet? (And seriously, how do scratch your face in one of those things?)
All this and more answers to your space-suit-related questions below!
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Up From the Depths of Time
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, batty Brits, creativity, inspiration, mudlarking, Thoughts on May 14, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Once upon a time, children, before mass production and digital copies and backups and cloud synching, it was possible to wipe a thing from the world completely.
Or maybe not? Here’s a fun story about business feuds and artistic obsession!
Remnants of a Legendary Typeface Have Been Rescued From the River Thames
The depths of the river Thames in London hold many unexpected stories, gleaned from the recovery of prehistoric tools, Roman pottery, medieval jewelry, and much more besides. Yet the tale of the lost (and since recovered) Doves typeface is surely one of the most peculiar.
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Happy 114th!
Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, birthdays, family, memories, Thoughts on May 13, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Happy birthday, Grandpa! Some of my previous birthday posts:
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.”
— Carl W. Buehner
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Happy Mothers’ Day, Moms!
Posted in Holidays, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, Thoughts on May 12, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Your Choice
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, creativity, quoteandaprettypicture, Thoughts, Writers, writing on May 11, 2024| Leave a Comment »
The point is, if you want to be happy, let go of your wants. If you want to be effective, harness them.
— Hank Green
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Rereading
Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, reading, Thoughts on May 10, 2024| Leave a Comment »
I reread a lot of books. (For example, I’m currently rereading Thursday Murder Club series. The trick is to wait just long enough to forget, but not so long that you don’t remember;)
Sometimes I also like to reread my blog posts. Not for my own perspective, that usually hasn’t changed, but for the interesting things I’ve shared but may have forgotten.
It’s also why I like the Random Post option. I never know what might pop up!
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