My computer doesn’t like the electricity here; it hums and vibrates when it’s plugged in, and feels like a live thing under my fingertips. I hope it doesn’t explode before I leave for home! There are no building codes or permits for anything in Bali. If you want to build a house, you just build … More Bali – 4
The living room and the forest Thursday, July 16th, 5:30 a.m. The Bali you see in advertisements, hear about, and imagine, is not the Bali that exists away from the hotels that line the beaches. Beautiful, but….. the real Bali is a third world country, a tropical country, and beautiful. We took a trek along … More Bali – 2
Wednesday, July 15th, 4:30 a.m. (a 13 hour time difference from my home…) My cousin Dawn and I went to a number of shops in Gianyar and Ubud on errands yesterday, my first day in Bali. Gianyar and Ubud are cities to the east and west of her home in Tegallinggah. Ubud is a big … More Bali time
It has been quite a long hiatus from WordPress. I missed writing here, though I have kept up with my usual round of blogs whether I commented when I visited you or not. I have really been limiting my time on the computer the past few weeks. Wrapping up the end of the school year … More Summer, the 4th, and what’s new!
Lists are the way I normally accomplish things that need to get… accomplished! I have been unable to make a list for the past two weeks because I knew reading it would put me over the edge. This blog is misnamed; it should be So Many Chores, So Little Time. Books? Who has time to … More How my life went to the dogs
This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green, Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes, Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between Where the wood fumes up and the watery, flickering rushes. D. H. Lawrence
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! What a lucky day! I have been bemoaning the fact that I lost all of the photos my daughter and I took on our trip to Ireland last summer. We still had the pictures my son took, but he is not as trigger happy as I am. I was searching through … More the luck of the irish!
Gargoyle on Books by Walter S. Arnold, Sculptor / Stone Carver, Chicago IL 2002 I did a rat-a-tat-tat on my knee. Crossed my legs the other way. Did a rat-a-tat-tat on the other knee. Didn’t help. Wiggled my foot, making circles with it. Helped a little. It was a five-minute drive, and it felt like … More the agent from the black lagoon……
I am known here by my alter ego, at least in name: Qugrainne. This is a shortened, yahoo style handle, which comes from the name Gráinne Ní Mháille. Gráinne is also know as the pirate queen of Connaught – and her Anglicized name of Grace O’Malley. Gráinne was born in 1530 in Ireland, of course. … More the irish pirate queen, Gráinne Ní Mháille
The Write on Wednesday prompt, How do you find positive things to write about in these troubled times? Do you think the written word has the power to effect positive change? What came first, the robin or the egg? What came first, the use of language that produced the larger brain capacity, or the larger … More the power of the written word
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