Month: December 2009

No Entry Fee Nature Poetry Contest

Although this deadline isn’t until the end of April 2010, put it on your calendar! With no fee to enter and cash prizes you have four months to polish your nature poems.

Live on Good Soup and Words

“I live on good soup, not on fine words.” Moliere Many cultures start the new year by eating lentils or black eye peas, symbols of prosperity and good luck. Here’s my recipe for a Greek style lentil soup to start your new year out right. Two books are on my reading list this week:  Wabi… Continue reading Live on Good Soup and Words

The New Year is Almost Here!

“The Old Year has gone.  Let the dead past bury its own dead.  The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time.  All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!”  Edward Payson Powell New Year’s Day is definitely one of my favorite days, a new year means new opportunities and… Continue reading The New Year is Almost Here!

Need More Brain Cells?

Now you can just buy them… Thanks to Yvonne for pointing me in this direction! Aren’t they cute? I found out yesterday I passed my Progress Review for school with my 18 page science paper on feeding and walking the muse. This is my very condensed article on what I learned, most likely I’ll be… Continue reading Need More Brain Cells?

Music in Nature

Yesterday morning I sent in a entry for Poetic Shutterbug’s Music in Nature’s Contest, this morning I was very pleased to read that I won an honorable mention. Read the winning poems here. Thanks to Joanne for the fun contest!

Breast Cancer Awareness

Now that this video has had over 4,000,000 hits, the company that makes the pink gloves is donating money for women who can’t afford mammograms. Good job Portland St. Vincent Hospital! Down Generation Pink Vinyl Powder-Free Exam Gloves