Originally posted on tangerine drawings:
Five years as a pastry chef and I never learned how to poach an egg properly. It never came up. I liked crispy-fried eggs for my breakfast, when I wasn’t eating croissants at work. And then I landed in a new place, a mixture of happenstance and good friends, and…
Originally posted on Toortsie, Kameel en Bokbaaivygie se blog:
Hoekom is my naam Kameel? Vir die dood eenvoudige rede dat ‘n kameel my idee van humor is. Daardie gesig, die hooghartige houding, en dik wimpers laat my innerlik glimlag. Wat sal ek nie gee vir sulke wimpers nie…. sug. Ken het by ons kerk in…
Originally posted on Pacific Paratrooper:
USMC on Tarawa Atoll Gradually, those buried on Betio in the Tarawa atoll are being identified and returned home. Pacific Paratrooper is including this story as a tribute to them. Edwin Glasberg, 93, has lived an extraordinary life and is known as a WWII hero for a number of reasons.…
Originally posted on Toni Andrukaitis:
“Never stop dreaming, never stop believing, never give up, never stop trying, and never stop learning.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart ***************** Pretty much every local artist and future artist in the McKinney area has taken a class with Maribeth Jagger. Not only is she an amazing…
Originally posted on HappymessHappiness:
I just want to pull away from people once in a while…
Originally posted on lisa lennon (official):
Sarcasm can be defined as a ”sharp, bitter, or cutting expression or remark, or a bitter jibe or taunt.” Its distinctive quality is that it is more effective when spoken, as compared to write, because of vocal inflections that can give it greater emphasis. The first record of the…
By Alyssa When thinking of starting a homestead, it can be temping to go overboard and implement every idea you can think of. Before you know it, your homestead can be set up in a way that keeps you imprisoned to it because therea re so many chores to keep up with that you couldn’t […]
Boston’s Beacon Hill used to be 58 feet higher than it is today—back in the early 19th century, the hill was excavated to provide huge amounts of fill for the shoreline and bodies of water such as Mill Pond. The excavation of Beacon Hill and the subsequent “massive filling” increased Boston’s land mass by 150 […]
Originally posted on Sketches from Berlin:
It’s 12:00 p.m. in Berlin, and I’ve got the windows of my flat open to the garden and can hear the sparrows in the trees and the church bells tolling in the distance. Mark Twain used to complain about the sound of church bells, but I’ve always liked it.…
Originally posted on kiwissoar:
This lovely little Church of St Oswalds at Westmere, just north of Whanganui, is designed by Frederick De Jersey Clere. Building started in 1914 and was finally completed in 1929. (I have to wonder if the building was held back by the event of the First World War). It is surrounded…
