Thursday, October 29, 2009
How often can you help?
What a mess. It's happened again! What I'm talking about is this: across from me live an elderly couple in a small villa. Both retired, with three dogs and five cats, no other family there and doing pretty much nothing all day long, not even walking the dogs which sh.... in the house. But that's...
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A somewhat uneasy morning
Today is one of the few Turkish bank holidays, this one vaguely dedicated to youth, furthering youth etc, whatever that may mean in detail. Such holidays entail parades of semi-uniformed young people, marching along the streets to the sound of drums, waving immense Turkish flags and shouting...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Did you know..
I'm not particularly bright today, but my mind just stretches to tell you about an explanation for an expression one often uses and doesn't really know where it comes from. Did you know where "Graveyard shift" has its origins? According to one explanation, it dates back to the Middle Ages. People...
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Will the bubble burst?
Right now, I'm truly in writer's heaven. I told you recently, that I had submitted article ideas to five online magazines, two of which I have written before. What can I tell you? I got three assignments back. One is for a (for me) new magazine. The next is for gonomad. And the third is for my...
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Addition to previous post
Sinome and lusterlove both complained that the link did't work. Please just type in: www.abyssandapex.com/guidelines.html. That's the paying mag for short stories and poetry. Try it out, all you great poets out there.
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
A home for short stories and poetry
It's very difficult to find an online magazine which publishes short stories and poetry and even more rare to find one that actually pays. So, I was delighted when I happened upon this gem and thought: this goes on blogit, chop, chop. Here is the link. And they pay. Another one, which sadly doesn't...
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
Determination does pay off...
I'm tickled pink and of course, my blogit family is the first to know. I just go my first real assignment. Last week I felt a bit in a rut, writing for the same sites again and again and I was looking for new avenues. I went through a list of about 60 online travel magazines I had accumulated and...
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Friday, October 23, 2009
The benefits of ironing.
Has vogue now totally lost it? You may well ask, because those who follow me, know that I am the ultimate domestic she-devil, quite capable of boiling an egg...in cold water! What would I know about ironing? This, however, is a serious post, prompted by Pat_B's entry about a visit from Ms. Block -...
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
The seven sleepers
Here is another tale related to Ephesus. It's the story of the Seven Sleepers. They were seven young men who were persecuted at the times of Decius (around 250) and walled up in a cave on the slopes of the mountain where Mary's house is located. They fell asleep and..miraculously woke up, well and...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Modern Turkish art
The Ephesus museum has a small section downstairs, dedicated to modern Turkish painters. As far as I'm concerned, it shouldn't have! The most remarkable thing that can be said about that one room is that it is a huge let down after all the marvels and fantastic art of antiquity. I don't think that...
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