EIGHT Things Tuesday: November

hibiscus in the snow

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I’m addicted: Dr. Who

I’ll come clean; I am an unmitigated, unapologetic and very nearly rabid Dr. Who fan. Well, a Dr. Who TEN fan, to be specific.
Really, wrap David Tennant in a box and send him to me.
In this clip, the last anything from the BBC series until the Christmas special, Drs. Who Ten and Five (Peter [...]

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FreeRice.com: Gather, all ye word whores

Seriously, go check this site out.
Last night, I received a link for Freerice.com, a site put together by the man who created (in 1999) the Hungersite.com and Poverty.com. In conjunction with the United Nations’ World Food Programme, this site has started attracting the attention of word lovers all over the globe. As an English [...]

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Black and white stripes: Oy, my eyes!

For whatever reason, my eyes are decidedly unhappy when I am confronted with black and white stripes, and the narrower they are, the worse I feel.

Probably the most accurate description of my reaction to this visual barrage is nausea and an immediate impulse to avert my eyes. So that said, for the life of me, [...]

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Mind Games: Twins and optical illusions

Check out this video!
Now, I can certainly understand the appeal of using a practically perfect stunt double to mess with other people’s heads - done it myself - but this takes twin games to an entirely different level.

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The color of my soul

What color are you?
orange
You are Happy, warm, cool, and very bold.

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Hey, I’m orange! A color I never wear - I just don’t have the skin tones for it - this cute (grammatically abysmal) little personality test ( I could also find out what sort of dog I am, were I [...]

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George’s Day: The Bar Mitzvah

George (*not his real name) became Bar Mitzvah over the weekend, amidst a meticulously planned and joy-filled three-day event. At the Friday-night service at the tiny congregation in Massachusetts, the core family sat and enjoyed a children’s service led by a dynamic and lovely female Rabbi, accompanied, on guitar, the cantorial soloist (a lawyer [...]

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Ten Things Tuesday: Expressions

The English we speak here in North America is replete with some expressions nearly divorced from their original meanings. I have always been fascinated by the words and colorful phrases we use and I may make this a regular feature. For the purposes of this list, I have chosen ten of my favorites:
1. [...]

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Spider in the car!

Something that looked almost identical to this little creepo crawled its last moments in this life in my car. A moment of silence, please.
My daughters had just piled into our purple SUV when Boo noticed, with some aspersion, a black arachnid on the passenger-side window.
Thinking, “OOh, I know how to deal with this!! [...]

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Happy 42nd Anniversary, Mom and Dad!

On a chill and blustery November 11th, in 1965, my parents were wed in Montreal. She, a native of Amsterdam, and he, a second-generation Montrealer, had met 10 months before at a party to which neither one had been invited; she was 27, he 33.
Before she was due to meet my father for their [...]

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