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Oh, my heart. This poem. twitter.com/POETSorg/statu…

@PoetFionaTLam @moving_poems @ecojustice_ca Congrats, Fiona!!

Words to live by. twitter.com/jasonpmyers/st…

This is one of the first poems I really loved. twitter.com/TomSnarsky/sta…

@PoetFionaTLam @EmilyCarrU @ArtLitLab Congrats!!!

One of my favourites… twitter.com/adrian_matejka…

Shout out to @robmclennanblog who makes poets feel seen and heard! twitter.com/garybarwin/sta…

Watermark for Isaac We watch the sun fall behind the chipped blue and white of the mountains. Nose up against the glass, you ask: Is this the same light as this morning? As frost prisms into fern on the window, I tell you how the noonlight is as soft…

The Night Heron Barks: Sitting Foxtrot with Comb & Watermark

Sprunny I can’t believe the people I used to believe, how ardently I searched for heartbeats beneath the snow, wrens pecking on drums, it’s just another way to talk about weather— —what you call affection? only palms crossed with silver. Bezique and…

Wild Roof Journal: La Arribada: A Disambiguation

Another great @FrontierPoetry contest: Nature &amp; Place twitter.com/FrontierPoetry…

Such a lovely and funny tribute. twitter.com/tcberman/statu…

@PoetFionaTLam @VanWritersFest @CityofVancouver @VanCultureBC @VPL @ParkBoard Love this! ❤️❤️❤️

@DearKestrel The English Patient and In the Skin of a lion by Michael Ondaatje — I still reread passages!

“And death is no parenthesis” — I never tire of hearing this poem by e.e.  cummings twitter.com/slowdownshow/s…

Thrilled to be joining @FrontierPoetry as a reader! twitter.com/FrontierPoetry…

This is awesome! twitter.com/CPhillipsPoet/…

Such an honour to have won this year. I am absolutely thrilled! twitter.com/pulpliterature…

@PoetFionaTLam @kevinspenst @TWSSFU @cat_writes_604 Thank you! 🙏🙏

Wonderful!! twitter.com/PaisleyRekdal/…

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Case studies I wrote regarding sustainability innovations at ECOM.

You’re in The Womb,’ says the woolly-hatted manager of The Dreaming, as he shows me into a room with a rosy, cosy 1970s vibe. I could have been in The Mush-Room, The Mystic, The Wanderer or The Moon. In the bathroom, I find the ‘vagina shower’ — pink…

An exclusive peek inside Charlotte Church's wacky Welsh retreat

Wheee! Do you remember freewheeling fearlessly downhill on your bike as a child? And the sweaty slog back to the top so you could do it all again? E-biking in northern Italy’s Trebbia Valley is just like that but without the lung-squeezing climb,…

Hiking, e-biking, rock climbing - why a multi-activity break in Italy could change your life

Launched in 2010, DCT technology, unique to Honda Motorcycles, has evolved into one of the most advanced power transmissions on 2 wheels today. With a choice of Manual and Automatic modes at your fingertips, you’ll never lose that exhilarating…

Rethink DCT: Honda’s revolutionary Dual Clutch Transmission

It felt unbelievable, didn’t it, on Monday night, when peace reigned around the world for those six golden hours that our social media fell silent.
At first, when there were no pinging WhatsApp notifications, I kept restarting my phone and rebooting…

The Facebook outage was exactly the social media reset we all need

Josa Keyes
Aug 4·8 min read
‘Count on your hand 5 things that can fly,’ says Willa Douglas.
The children scatter across the lawn — once a boggy field, now drained and brought into Willa’s magical garden. There’s a stream, a pond, bushes, thickets,…

Rewild your child — Wild for Words: the garden school where English comes alive

The adoption support fund
The adoption support fund (ASF) provides funds to local authorities (LAs) and regional adoption agencies (RAAs) to pay for essential therapeutic services for eligible adoptive and special guardianship order (SGO)…

Adoption support fund (ASF)

Josa Keyes
Aug 10, 2020·9 min read
Going crazy in the confines of my ‘hood, I’d been home alone pretty much since 11 March 2020. I had to break out, do something different and kick myself in the pants.
I’m lucky to be able to work to full capacity…

Confessions of a bootcamp virgin

Alex Innes was born with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) but the genetic eye condition never cramped his spirit. At 27, in 2016, he had eye surgery to improve his sight. Instead, in a rare complication, his usable vision plummeted from 84% to 7%.
Josa…

What it’s like to go blind in your twenties

Josa Keyes
Jan 18, 2020·6 min read
I wasted time and money as I couldn’t find anything clear online about how to reclaim my maiden name. So here’s a simple guide based on my own experience.
Josa Keyes wearing the pink antique fancy dress, in which…

How to reclaim your maiden name after divorce in the UK

Josa Keyes

The Gloria Bell film trailer says it all. Gloria, played by the luminous Julianne Moore, is in the throes of a mid-life awakening. Twelve years after divorce she’s done with being lonely, dealing with dismissive adult children and a boring…

At the age of 57, I went on 36 dates with different men in 12 months - here's what happened next

After a fraught, frantic and fabulous first three quarters of 2016, I discovered Tanya Goodin’s Time to Log Off digital retreats - just what I needed to calm down before winter.
There could be no hesitation. Tanya, a striking and determined blonde,…

Tanya Made Me Go To Digital Detox

I stood in the resin-scented darkroom trying to avoid getting cyanide on my bare feet and craning forward to understand 19th-century photography. Mark Luscombe-Whyte slipped a photographic plate into a chemical-filled fixer box, and the image…

Mark Luscombe-White, Julia Margaret Cameron and me

Middle Piccadilly... it conjures up a rumble of taxis and buses, the flash of electronic billboards and Eros poised on one toe, but that is far from the rural bliss to be found at this profoundly peaceful Dorset retreat.
Tucked away down a lane - you…

The 'Spa' for People Who Don't Like Spas

Summer 2014 has been for me a succession of attempts to overcome my fear of heights, ably assisted by my kind, patient 13-year-old son. It has also been the UK's most fabulous staycation summer for years, and I don't blame David Cameron for taking a…

Mr Cameron Holidays in Cornwall - And So Do We...

Under a fragrant ylang ylang tree, with New Orleans-style jazz tootling in my ears, I tried to make sense of the Southern Hemisphere's constellations, wonderfully bright overhead. There is very little light pollution to disturb your view on a…

Mauritius Mon Amour

A new piece of research suggested that people would rather have an electric shock than be left alone to think. So, I decided to see how I fared on the 'being alone with yourself' front, and took myself out quite deliberately, for an evening of pure,…

How to Take Yourself Out

Two crested grebes, with sly, sliding eyes, prick up the feathers on their heads and launch into a pecking, waterborne dance of what? Mating? Rivalry? I could not tell. An angry moorhen abandons its ambition to salvage an old flannel to bounce a…

Step Back in Time - A Weekend in Geneva

Where do you go when you are a single mum with a lively 13-year-old son? It is not easy as everything holidaywise is set up for more conventional families. You need somewhere safe for the young to feel free, when there aren't two of you to keep an…

Winter Sun for Single Mums in Egypt

'I want to buy THAT one,' the little boy declared, as he trotted past pointing a small determined finger at the Aston Martin. His father, hurrying in his three-year-old's wake, panted out: 'He didn't say that when he passed a Porsche just now'. A…

The Aston Martin Rapide S - The Drive of My Life

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Are we all just trying to mother ourselves? There is a calmness to the morning as I tie my laces and venture onto the well-worn rubble track. Autumn fog lies still upon the flats, unflustered by the pace of which I undertake the day — hurried, as…

Addiction and the Mother Wound: What’s the Connection?

Most women don’t look like the mums sitting on the front of Mother’s Day cards. Today, Mamamia celebrates all kinds of mums. For more stories about the reality of motherhood, check out Mamamia’s Mother’s Day hub page. This post deals with domestic…

'I don’t know how to be a good mum because I haven’t seen it myself.'

By Kathy Parker February 27, 2022 — 5.00am , register or subscribe to save articles for later. It’s the final week in January, one of the last days of summer holidays, the last I will spend at the beach with my children before a new school year…

I posted a bikini selfie. What happened next shocked me

Hear me now. Using my voice amongst a growing chorus of voices that will not be silenced. I wonder if Grace Tame knew the magnitude of these words when she spoke them this time last year during her Australian of the Year acceptance speech. I wonder…

Dear Grace Tame: From one survivor to another, thank you.

This post discusses eating disorders, body dysmorphia, and exercise addiction and might be triggering for some readers. Diet Culture: A rigid set of expectations about valuing thinness and attractiveness over physical health and emotional wellbeing.…

'I didn't think diet culture affected me. Then I was told I couldn't exercise.'

I wake this morning once again to grey skies and gale-force winds and groan. I struggle to want to get out of bed. I struggle with this more often than I admit these days - having to be an adult; to be responsible for others. I wonder if it’s…

'I was the child with unwashed clothes': What it's like growing up with an alcoholic parent.

Our time will come, right? These words I wrote to a friend last week who, like me, has four children and who — also like me — has given the best part of her last two decades to raise said children. We were chatting about restless feet, eager to get…

'I thought having kids in my 20s would make my 40s easier. I was wrong.'

“Trauma does not discriminate. Nor does it end when the abuse does.” - Grace Tame, Australian Of The Year 2021. It’s the day after Australia Day; the first day back of the school year. I kiss my children goodbye and wave them out the door. Make…

"For six years, I kept silent." Grace Tame has given me the courage to share my own story.

By Kathy Parker May 27, 2020 — 12.00am , register or subscribe to save articles for later. 38 View all comments The first time I gave much thought to conspiracy theories was in my early 20s. It was during Bible study; back in the days when I was a…

Why am I drawn to conspiracy theories? I have a theory

By Kathy Parker October 13, 2019 — 12.00am , register or subscribe to save articles for later. 1 View all comments It’s late afternoon and I ride my bike; country roads, dirt roads, lonely places. Twenty kilometres turns into 30, then 45. It’s less…

As a victim of rape, here’s how you can make me feel human again

When all of my friends were 18 and clubbing every night, I was getting married. When they were 21 and starting their careers, I was having my first child. A few generations ago, marrying young and having a family straight away was the done thing. For…

Eight benefits of having a family in your twenties.

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Spring is in the air. The first day I could actually sit outside & read :)

Spring is in the air. The first day I could actually sit outside &amp; read :) https://t.co/F15kn3YlMh

Street life, Lisbon. https://t.co/WQLN4pVufX

Surprising to see an anxious clown. Mostly they seem to be funny or scarey.

Surprising to see an anxious clown. Mostly they seem to be funny or scarey. https://t.co/xMwtC4V8bj

The calm & peace of Lake Champlain, Vermont.

The calm &amp; peace of Lake Champlain, Vermont. https://t.co/0pGPbtjGIr

A folio of street photogrpahy from London & New York.

The Street

BACK TO NATURE, An interview for Lenscratch By Olaf WilloughbyJanuary 13, 2020 ©Stig Marlon Weston, Trunk from Grove. Exhibition installation of “Grove” showing sets of medium sized “Trunk” prints. ‘In every walk in nature, one receives more than he…

Stig Marlon Weston

The Restless Spirit by Olaf Willoughby. An interview conducted for Lenscratch. Jo Sandman’s photography, hovering delicately between material and spiritual versions of the human form, is both innovative and imaginative. In this post, we explore her…

Jo Sandman

Includes social media posts , multiple image styles.

Three photographers on three continents triple exposing 35mm film. Educational, intriguing & above all fun.

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Bowing to political reality, Central Texas High head football coach Wally Aweless announced he has reassigned longtime assistant coach Hank Staubach to the junior varsity and hired 33-year-old local education critic/concerned parent Karen Sniffy to…

Parents Are Freed to Call the Shots

Howard Spanogle had an odd giggle, and he giggled at odd things. During a conversation, he’d rev up, and his voice would climb from 65 to 75 to 85 decibels plus one full octave, and then he’d giggle, and I wouldn’t have a clue what he was talking or…

Span The Man

CINDIE BROOKS’ infant daughter, Michelle, cried for the better part of her first three years of life. A longtime Tarrytown resident, Brooks had no idea why she cried or what to do to stop her from crying. Cindie just had to hope that eventually,…

Animal Attraction

MICHAEL SHACKELFORD'S PLAN never included “Be a middle school cheerleader coach.” If anything, it included, “Find a career in something other than education.” His mom teaches second- and third-graders, and his uncle is a principal, and several other…

Love Shack

AT FIRST, I KNEW Brad Bailey had died, but that’s all I knew. I didn't know how he died, or when he died, or who was there when he died other than those who are paid to be there when somebody dies. For a week or so, I didn’t know where his body was,…

Brad's dead. No joke.

We weren’t sure Violet would make it. Sarah went through one false labor and then another, and I said to my wife, “I’m afraid this one might not make it.” But then, Violet arrived, and we knew she’d make it, even though she was teeny-tiny and spindly…

Sarah saw it coming, and I brushed her off.

Someone I used to know texted the link below to me late last night. Look it over or the rest of this post won’t make much sense. https://www.facebook.com/.../you-see.../4510905965617728/ Welcome back. It’s six days before the 2020 presidential…

Blinded by the Dark

I’ve largely abandoned Facebook. not because I have nothing to say but because I have little to add. Fact-checking for people who refuse to acknowledge fact is a waste, and serial offenders are often the most staunchly certain of their own inerrancy.…

Civics is Losing, Big Time

I was her pool boy, although she and her husband, Jan Reid, didn't have a pool. They had an old house that came with a old yard that needed occasional help, which I was thrilled to provide because Dorothy was one of the most remarkable and beautiful…

Dorothy Browne

Sung to the tune of “Family Christmas” by Robert Earl Keen If you don't know it, YouTube it first. MAGA Christmas Party Mom loves Trump, and Dad toasts Trump at our MAGA party. We were thinkin’ sucker punch upside Bernie Sanders’ nog. Little sister's…

MAGA Christmas Party

Moms can be so clueless. Take, for instance, this exchange between Casis third-grader-to-be Henry Presnell and his mom, Jessica Walton. I’ve just mentioned that Henry strongly resembles New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning. Henry: I don’t even…

Mothers & Sons

We met at Mozart’s on the muggy, breezy morning of Nov. 17, and I wanted him to tell me — on the record — his story about loss, grief and acceptance because I thought it might assuage the fury a few of my friends were feeling about the election. But…

The Awful Grace of God

Sherry Gingras sells drums, and she says that with a tinge of disbelief. “I never expected it,” she told me. “It wasn’t like, ‘Oh, I’m going to open a drum shop and become a drum teacher.’” It was more like, “This is so amazing.” So amazing that once…

The Beat of a Different Drum

I hadn’t stepped into Casis Elementary since my daughter finished fifth grade there in 1995. I remember the graduation ceremony. Lots of blonde braids and new braces and polo shirts and floral sun dresses. It just couldn’t be sweeter, we thought, but…

When I Come Around...

I posted the following piece on Facebook around 10 p.m. the night Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2016 presidential race. I'd love to say I nailed it, but I didn't. I had no idea what a trainwreck he would be. Congratulations, Mr. Trump.…

Still not ready to make nice

It’s just another day, another response to another idiot rant about Hillary's emails, Benghazi and such. About the emails: Nothing illegal found. Yes, it was stupid — really stupid and arrogant — that Clinton had a private email server to begin with,…

A Day in the Lie

Aboard “The Beast” on its way north out of Saltillo toward the U.S.-Mexico border at Laredo. Manuel: Hey man. How’s it going? Nice ride, huh? Manuel: Where you coming from? Pedro: El Salvador. Took a bus up with the wife and kids, then hopped a train…

The Joy of Living Like a Refugee

A personal note from senior class president Donald J. Trump to Student Council president Ken John Awn. Supreme Commander of the varsity football team And I hope I can call you “Ken.” I think I can because I know how much you respect me as the…

Donna and Ken John and broken promises

This is the keynote speech I gave at the Florida Scholastic Press Association. Thursday, April 12, 2018 in Orlando, FL. The theme of the convention was “Emerge, Expand, Evolve.” I've edited it slightly. It’s great being back in Florida. It’s been…

A Generation Rises

My mother, Thelma Louise Kathman Hawthorne, died on Sunday, Jan. 20 of congestive heart failure. She was 90 years old. This is an amended version of the eulogy I gave at her funeral, around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23 at the Lakeview Funeral Home in…

The Story of Her Life

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Pull it toward me,Push it away and turnA circle in my handsRound and aroundAnd round againUntil yeast and flourTell me it’s time.I never saw my mother bake bread.By the 1960s, Holsum came inCrinkly plastic bags,Sliced perfectly, smelling of…

Knowing and Kneading

Original publish date: September 12, 2012.Maria and Carlos followed four street vendors for two days as the men peddled their wares, pounding the pavement in the dizzying, noisy traffic of Hialeah's most congested thoroughfares. The growling engines…

An Honest Hustle in Hialeah 🎥

Longing tastes of earth, Stirred soft in porcelain As we pour each other, Travelers as ancient as the water Drawing secrets from the leaves. Pour each other into teacups, Lift to mouth, a sip of truth. Journey, beloved, to uncharted territory A…

Tea 🔊

Born in Coconut Grove on December 17, 1926, Ms. Thelma Vernell Anderson Gibson knows a Grove many of us only read about in history books. She turns 95 today. Proclaiming herself to possess “the gift of gab,” the nonagenarian has never been to shy to…

Ms. Gibson, 95, has touched many lives

Stephen Licata thought he could live in the Grove — and he stayed. Like many Long Island transplants, Stephen Licata came to Miami to get out of the snow, but also to get an education. Biking from the dorms at the University of Miami to Coconut…

Stephen Licata loves Grove colors, aviation history

Pastor Bryant carries on a legacy of faith and service. Third generation Grovite Pastor Michael Bryant lives and breathes Coconut Grove. “My grandparents left South Carolina and bought a house in the Grove,” he says. “I still live there.” Born in the…

Pastor Michael Bryant’s ‘heartbeat is the Grove’

Lisa Remeny captures her love for the tropics on canvas. “I’m obsessed with skies,” says Lisa Remeny. “I’ve made a career at being good at painting clouds.” Born in Miami Beach, Remeny has lived in Coconut Grove nearly thirty years, delighting art…

Lisa Remeny, painter, brings ‘light and happiness’

Heart of the Grove is a weekly series about the everyday heroes who shape the joys, challenges and wisdom of this historic Miami village.

Minty Z serves up love in plant – based eatery

Katrina Morris found love in the Grove. “Some people come to visit and never leave,” says Katrina Morris. “That was me 27 years ago.” California-born Morris says she “followed a boy” to Miami Beach in her twenties. That young love was short-lived,…

Katrina Morris loves the ‘soul of a city’

Pearl Meyer found her calling in childhood. Pearl Meyer, the owner of The Blonde Tulip, has always been a flower girl — not the one who scatters petals at a wedding, but rather someone who’s been in love with flowers her whole life. This love affair…

Pearl Meyer’s dream of flowers came true

Linda Williams has typed thousands of words in her life, but the word she loves most is ‘hello’ Linda Williams loves to say ‘hello’ to everyone she meets — especially from her porch in West Grove. “Saying ‘hello’ opens windows of opportunity,” she…

Linda Williams connects the dots for neighbors

Cafecito Espiritual was born in Peacock Park. Seven years ago, while meditating at dawn in Peacock Park, Carlos Anaya heard an inner voice: “Your platform will be called cafecito espiritual and it will touch the hearts of millions.” His intuition was…

Cafecito Espiritual, a Grove-inspired love story

Sanchez-Resnik has long loved bicycling outdoors. “Why did we wait so long to live in such a great place?” is a question Hank Sanchez-Resnik remembers he and his wife, Lucienne, asked themselves when they moved to Coconut Grove in 2013. The couple…

Hank Sanchez-Resnik goes extra mile for Grove bicyclists

Nelson’s love for Grove trees started with a sapling. Joyce Nelson, a Grovite since ‘74, says she has reinvented herself seven times, but she’s also enjoyed at least two constants in her life — a decades-long devotion to preserving Coconut Grove’s…

Joyce Nelson’s lifelong love for trees and heritage

H. Bredemeier started simple and ‘fell in love’ with his craft. For someone who has designed tens of thousands of pieces of jewelry during his career — most of them luxury for a worldly clientele — H. Bredemeier himself could be called a Coconut…

H. Bredemeier’s lifelong passion for jewelry

The Commodore’s great-granddaughter keeps the bay close to her heart. “When I was younger, I was shy about having this heritage,” says Mary Munroe Seabrook. “My high school teacher would single me out in class. Later, I really came to embrace it.”…

Mary Munroe Seabrook’s bayshore legacy

Heart of the Grove stories are inspired by a legacy of resilience. The idea for Heart of the Grove, a story series about Coconut Grove’s everyday heroes, was born during the Covid-19 pandemic and inspired by a legacy of resilience in adversity. 2020…

Heart of the Grove tells the stories of everyday heroes

From “ugliest green building” to prettiest green trees — Atchana’s Thai food journey “When people tell me I am the hardest working person they know, I say: ‘Wait, you haven’t met my mother.’” Atchana Capellini, veteran Miami restaurateur, fondly…

Atchana brings Thai food home to Coconut Grove

Commander Lewis brings nurturing touch to her ‘second home’ “Make sure you are good. And that your home is good, too,” is a frequent order Commander Weslyne Lewis Francois gives her officers, whom she sees as family — the way she also sees the…

Commander Lewis nurtures village through family concept policing

There’s more to Coconut Grove than year-round warm weather. “Who can complain about the weather?” asks Virginia Yermoli about life in Coconut Grove. The Argentine native, who came to the Grove via D.C. and Montreal in 2002, soon learned there was…

Virginia Yermoli ‘fell in love’ with Coconut Grove

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It would be great if "closed" plugins dropped from the wp.org repo sent back a permanent warning to sites using them. patchstack.com/articles/how-t…

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With WordPress 6.2, you’ll be able to customize blocks globally or individually faster than ever before. Navigating through page templates to edit them and their sub-components is much easier now, thanks to a new Browse Mode in the site editing…

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#WordPress 6.2 is a major release that will change how you think about and work with themes. You’ll find it’s easier to build any kind of website than it ever has been before, thanks to the Style Book and evolving site + block editing experience.…

12th-century structural reinforcements — iron "staples" in stone blocks. buff.ly/42rfwJD https://t.co/hv5Re4p4G9

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Drawing fantasy maps and floorplans for fun. buff.ly/406I89v

The obvious remains unthinkable. buff.ly/3dyBUIp