What fun we had with the First Annual Friends of Mississippi Mills Facebook Page Clotheslines (pics) and Clothes’ Lines (poetry with & without pics) combined competition, the idea for which…
I stumbled across this 1991 clip of Johnny Carson “interviewing” Robin Williams. The comedic genius’s performance covered everything from Castro, to what it would be like if Shakespearian actors…
Inspired by online conversations featuring great divides, political and otherwise. the lowest common d nominator © 2018 punkie the lowest common d nominator © 2018 punkie one asks a…
Social scientist Brené Brown is a qualitative grounded theory researcher, and the author of of four #1 New York Times Bestsellers. In Braving the Wilderness, which is all about belonging,…
Happy birthday <3 happy sixtieth birthday © 2018 punkie happy sixtieth birthday © 2018 punkie you lay on the ground turning blue and not red your heart had…
Inspired by one Mississippi Mills dog owner’s request that other dog owners be diligent in cleaning up after their pups. Click > on the audio bar for the spoken…
I first saw this video in 2010 when I owned my own one-woman public speaking consultancy. I loved it then and I love it now. This is EXACTLY what…
Editors at Mississippi Mills’ online newsletter The Millstone came up with a plausible (or not) explanation for a recent spate of AWOL emails from readers. Their theory inspired this…
I sometimes get stuck in ruts. Thankfully, some of the ruts in which I get stuck are rather fun. Poetry in the style of nursery rhymes, rhyming couplets, and Dr….
It’s March 18, 2018. Sometime between now and July 1, I’ll move from the beautiful village of North Hatley, Quebec, where I’ve lived for five years, to the equally…