In October 2011, I registered the domain name ayearofreadingtheworld.com and started this blog. I didn’t know it then, but the website would change my life. The original quest to read a book from every country in the world in a year turned out to be mind-blowing in ways I’d never anticipated: it reconfigured my imagination, […]
via A literary explorer’s guide to blogging — A year of reading the world
Angela Graham, a teacher, addresses the fears of parents who are new to homeschooling: “We are not perfect, and whatever school ends up looking like for your child the rest of this year, we don’t expect you to be perfect either.”
via Parents, Stop Freaking Out, Teachers Aren’t Perfect Either — Discover
Panda has been making licorice candy since 1927, and they have a classic website to match, where you can buy their products and read all about licorice on their blog.
A three-step technique for creating space, slowing down and enhancing creativity. “When one has much to put in them, a day has a thousand pockets.” – Nieztsche One of the challenges of living, working and socializing all from home during this Pandemic-induced lockdown is that the spatial structure of our days has been largely dissolved: […]
via How to expand subjective time during the lockdown. — Conscious Cookies
Interesting times, no? We live in interesting times. Oh ho ho the times they are interesting. By that, of course, I mean that I am very bored, but at the same time so anxious I am giving myself headaches. Pandemics are not fun! Staying in your house is not fun! Worrying that people are going […]
To recognize National Pet Day on April 11 we look at how some animal shelters are tackling the problems they are facing during COVID-19 by going online.
via National Pet Day: Shelter Animals Going Online — Discover
Wrestling star Hulk Hogan says God is using the coronavirus pandemic to tear down the idols people have created in their lives. According to FaithWire, Hogan, whose real name is Terry Gene Bollea, is asking people to use their free time to strengthen their relationship with Jesus. “God has taken away everything we worship,” he wrote […]
What Pegman Saw is a great writing prompt, unique as far as I’m aware in that it uses Google Street View as a starting point. The curators (Josh and Karen) suggest a venue each week but it’s up to the individual to choose a specific image to use as inspiration. Why not give it a […]
PHOTO PROMPT © Jeff Arnold The stomp of boots echoes up the narrow stairwell. Anton scrambles out of bed to the attic room door, rams the bolt home. His fingers describe a sigil in the air as he mutters a holding spell. It won’t stop them, but it might buy him time. On his desk, […]
Tasha had taken the cold journey from home in her stride. She examined every passersby closely: the women with their head scarves in shades of mud; the men’s faces hidden by Party caps, their hunched, overcoated shoulders. She watched the trams and buses jostle through the city, along Gorky Street. The child hardly spoke, her […]
via Jane Dougherty’s Words and pictures poetry challenge: The Whisperer — Word Shamble
