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Suppose you were to dig a hole straight through the Earth from Amman
While surfing on the web today, I found an interesting way to whittle away 10 minutes of my time from today’s post from Buzzfeed entitled Find Out Where You’d Be If You Dug Straight Through The Earth. I found out that there would be no more surfing on the web, more like a lot of sailing on [...]
Break out the violin, a napowrimo triolet
Today is the second day of NaPoWriMo, which makes me, as usual, a day late and a dollar short. I got my prompt from the NaPoWriMo blog and will include it here as well. Today’s poem will be a triolet. A triolet has eight lines. The first, fourth, and seventh lines are identical. The second [...]
Old Fashioned Doughnuts
My grandfather, Bernard, aka Bud, made these donuts every year on his birthday. He was a farmer and not afraid to get his hands dirty. My grandmother, however, did not like sharing her kitchen with a man and made him do the frying in the basement with the boiler and the firewood. My birthday was [...]
Tag, I’m it.
. . . My dear friend, Momma Bean of http://a-tale-of-three-beans.blogspot.com/, first buttered me up with a birthday poem, then tagged me with a get to know you better questionnaire. It’s a good way to make sure I do it, Momma. So here goes: 1. If you blog anonymously, are you happy doing this? If you [...]
A Birthday Limerick for Cari
Is today a special day? Very. It marks the birthday of Cari. If your wish be my command, May your day go as planned. Happy Birthday from your limerick fairy!
Out of the Doldrums
No, I haven’t been sailing anywhere near the “equatorial calms” and my life has seemed anything but calm. With the little one now in school, I thought that this would be MY year to do what I like as I liked but it hasn’t quite gone that way. I started driving the kids to and [...]
Kaak, the Jordanian Breakfast of Champions
A major perk of driving the kids to school is the opportunity to get fresh, and I mean FRESH, bread for my breakfast and sometimes sandwiches for the kids’ lunches. What better way than to pull over and have it made for you. My favorite place to stop is at the second circle [...]
Friday Morning Drive in Jordan. . .
. . . should not involve traffic. I left five minutes before nine to take my kids to football (soccer) and basketball games this past Friday. My weekday drive takes longer especially at the second circle and sometimes the third circle. I did not expect any roadblocks. I should have considered myself tipped off when [...]
