This image from Wordle.net represents a speech from Obama on schools. You can use the site to make word clouds from text that you provide. The site explains: “The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes....
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I love this post from friend Grimsaburger.
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Love Ray LaMontagne, as you know. Just discovered this cover he made of Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy. Of course, the original bears repeating.
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…that’s good enough for me. This holiday, my little girl and I are baking and selling cookies to benefit pediatric cancer research. A Band of Parents of children battling cancer put together this website on how to host a bake sale for the cause. I’ve blogged before about this family and the mom is a...
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I have a weekend gig as a photographer. Lately, I’ve been taking photos of families for their holiday cards. Here, in no particular order, are links to this year’s holiday photo card offerings. All of these options allow you to upload your jpeg into a fabulous card design. The links should take you directly to...
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This essay, The Give and Take of Grief, by Michael Newland featured this week on This I Believe is so powerful, I had to steady myself against a wall when I heard it. With phrases like, “He looked at me, like a dolphin surfacing to look at a fisherman, and then re-submerged when the team...
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This post from 3191 is exactly what I’ve been thinking about doing as a holiday card for us. I love the outside looking in. I’ve been trying to photograph our family from the outside the cottage looking in for a while now. I’m waiting for perfect autumn light. I think this appeals to me (and...
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I loved this story on NPR’s Friday Morning Edition. Imagine loving what you do in your 80′s. These movie critics call themselves Reel Geezers, post reviews on Youtube and have some suggestions in the story link above for movies to add to the netflix cue or movie rental wishlist.
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My house is sleeping. I have on my favorite headphones and Ray LaMontagne is singing about trouble and wild horses, being saved and asking how come. I’m thinking back on the week and trying to figure out how to put it into categories and alphabetized files. There are so many things I can’t write about...
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I saw this photo from [b]ecker today and it makes me want to go to Antigua where this sign lives…or at least print a poster for my office.
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