A Perfect Ten – 2019

Widdershins's avatarWiddershins Worlds

Here we go … as I mentioned in my last post, I’m doing a review of all my posts that published on or around the 27th of September going back over the last ten years.

Turns out I wasn’t very prolific last year and the closest to the date was this bit of absolute (video) cyootness, and what was probably the first of a string of ‘Have you ever’s’.

Here is the original … and because the link’s still live, I’m going to repost the video.

Having a bit of a read of other posts around this date, I see that I was focused on getting The Wunder-Lustersunderway, and how we would be able to balance traveling in our little trailer and not lose our sense of personal space, that both of us value very highly. Underneath it all was the urgency to respond to the…

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Why Authors Should Read Reviews

P. H. Solomon's avatarStory Empire

Good morning, everyone, PH with you here today, wishing you a wonderful day. I don’t know how many times something serendipitous happens with you and then you gain a better perspective or find a better way to do something but it happens to me often. Recently, I came across an inconsequential blog post and, as I read it, I realized something very helpful.

man sitting on bench reading a book. Bench surrounded by tall grasses, sun shining, portion of lake visible in backgroundMany of us authors spend a lot of time seeking out reviews. After all, a review can be very helpful to readers and validate our books. A glowing four or five star review can also make your day we. Reviews can also be hard to generate but they are gold when received. Personally, I should probably do more to seek them from bloggers than I have. It’s something else to work at in my spare time, spare time being twist of words for me these days.

However…

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Shall Joy wear what Grief has fashioned?

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Have you ever heard of the economic term, the Don’t Care Gap?

What is it? Well, suppose you have two companies, Evilgreed Inc and Flightsofangels.org. They both make T-shirts, but Evilgreed makes them in Bangladesh using child labour at $2 a month. Flightsofangels also manufactures their T-shirts in Bangladesh but only employs workers over eighteen and pays them a decent living wage. Now, you’re in Kmart shopping for a T-shirt, and you notice that one brand is priced at five dollars a pop and the other at thirty-five. The Don’t Care Gap is therefore thirty dollars – in other words, the difference between producing a product to the highest ethical specifications and producing a product to the cheapest specifications. (Here’s an exact cost comparison)

Why is this called the Don’t Care Gap? Because it quantifies exactly how much those involved in the production process – company, shareholders…

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The Small Dog gets Busted

Sue Vincent's avatarSue Vincent's Daily Echo

I may be in the doghouse
‘Cause, “Your face gives you away,”
I’ve not a clue what she might mean…
I’d just gone out to play!

“Don’t come the innocent with me,
I know what you’ve been at…”
I wondered how, from in the house,
She’d seen me chase the cat…

“Have you been digging, girlie?”
That’s unfair, how did she know?
I thought if I could plant something
Then maybe it would grow…

I wondered if she’d noticed
That I’d trampled on her rose?
“I know what you’ve been doing…
I can see it on your nose.”

Continue reading at The Small Dog’s Blog

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Green Onion Garlic Rice

Graham Stewart's avatarHow I Cook — by Graham Stewart

EC3D2219-56B7-45D0-B3C6-369CB0C7D4B0Pork riblets are on the menu for supper tonight and normally we would just have plain white rice with them. I thought since we weren’t changing the sauce for the riblets I would play with the rice. I have lots of green onions in the fridge so they play nice with rice, garlic just because we like garlic. Rice we really like to have, actually we eat as much rice as potatoes. Thing is the stove top method of making rice hates me. Making rice for me on the stove top is a hit and mostly miss thing. It usually turned out to wet or stuck to the bottom of the pot. We tried the minute rice thing but didn’t like how that tasted. Luckily I found a recipe that worked perfectly for me. A few years ago I got a rice cooker for Christmas but found a problem with…

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Black Widow’s Best Moments

Gemma's avatarBook Beach Bunny

Scarlett Johanssen in Black Widow

If we weren’t currently living in the twilight zone at the time this is published I should have been sitting in a movie theater finally, finally watching the Black Widow movie… and wondering how long until they break Russian Daddy Hopper out of prison already.

Natasha Romanoff has been an important part of the MCU over the years and the movie is long over due but until then I thought I’d compile her Best Moments!

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