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This is my Crone Voice

• ‘Unseasonable’ Weather, Climate Change and Forest Fires
• A 3 Dressed Up As a 9
• A Fiery Birthday Story
• A Skinny-Obsessed World – Is ‘Fat’ Really the Worst Thing We Can Be?
• Age – What is Good About Getting Older
• Aging Woman and the Invisibility Factor
• Algorithms – Do They Have a Hidden Agenda?
• Allergic to the Gym – Fitness and Aging
• Alzheimer’s Statistics in Canada – They Make me Nervous
• Alzheimers – What is the Future?
• Am I Old Enough Now? Aging and Baby Boomers
• Americans – Taxing the Canadians Who Visit Them
• Baby Boomer Backlash – Their Retirement Years Will be Unique
• Canada’s 2015 Federal Election -First Past the Post is a Savage Place
• Canadian Local and Federal Politics in Action
• Climate Change Fear – Invoking Santa
• Climate Change in Canada
• Climbing Preikestolen, Norway, in Comfortable Shoes
• Cna Yuo Raed Tihs? (A Spam Story)
• Digital Afterlife – Death and an Exit Strategy
• Distorted Perceptions of Beauty
• Do You Like You? Being Comfortable in Your Skin
• Do You Love the Skin You’re In?
• Facebook Thinks Your Life is Boring
• Fat Facts – An Obesity Epidemic or a Beauty Bias?
• Forming Opinions in “Idiot America”
• Free Range Kids – The Slow Erosion of Childhood Freedom
• From Rags to Riches – the Spam Way
• Give Me the Good Old Parking Meter, Please!
• Go Grey, Girl – Be an Arctic Ice Blonde!
• Good News for Seniors – Not Everything about Aging is Bad
• Half Full or Half Empty. How Full is Your Glass?
• He said, “I Don’t Want the Chicken”
• How to Clone Yourself – Unfocused
• How to Run in Stilettos – But Why Would You?
• I Cut My Own Bangs
• Increase Your Chances of Being Right
• Internet – Google Autocomplete – Unfiltered Eavesdropping
• Irksome Things – Elections, Royalty and Climate
• Land of the Left – Santa is Being Relocated
• Life Is Many Things – What is it to You?
• Life Lessons – How Full is Your Glass
• Media Bias and Knowledge – The Truth is Out There
• Message from the Queen – Revoking American Independence
• Mother Nature’s Bark Defies the Beauty Industry!
• Movember – The Month of Moustaches
• My 52 Friends Plan for Retirement
• Not Very Wordless Wednesday – The Web
• Occupy Wall Street – How to Redistribute Wealth
• Oil Isn’t Just Gasoline; Cows Aren’t Just Beef – An Alberta Story
• Old Time Teachers and The Arithmetic Circle of Doom
• Over the Top Writing Makes me do Just the Opposite
• Picking up the Pieces – The Puzzle of Life
• Politics – The Lighter Side
• Putting Weather into Perspective – Climate Change
• Ralph Klein – A Politician Who Kept his Promise
• Reading Feeds from Your Favourite Websites
• Rockyview Motorsports – Decision Just Days Away
• Rockyview Motorsports Sidelined
• RSS Feeds – Convenient for Whom?
• Satire, Fake News and Bias
• Scanning my Mind and Computer for Memories
• Security – A New Year – Time for New Passwords!
• Self Control and the Marshmallow Test
• Self-Indulgence and Consumer Spending Habits
• Simply Eggcellent – Don’t be a Stupid Girl
• Some Very Silly Spam
• Speed Liking – Click Your Way to Fame
• The 1 Weird Old Tip Scam
• The Glass Ceiling is Made of Cloth
• The Internet Browser War
• The Internet is Watching You
• The Many Faces of Women’s Equality in Canada
• The Media and the Medical System
• The Political Temper Tantrum – Needless Violence in the Wake of the Trump Election
• The Power of Grey Hair
• The River or The Road – River People and Goal People
• The Siksika First Nation – Idle No More
• The Silent ‘M’
• The Stop Online Piracy Act
• The Upside to Absent-mindedness
• The Value of the Stay-at-Home Workforce
• The Why and What of Vanity Sizing and Metrics
• The Woman Who Patented the Zigzag Stitch
• Unplugging from the Web – Flowers Help to Heal
• Unsubscribe, Unfollow, Unclutter – It’s UnFriday!
• Welcome to the Bright Lights of the Little City
• What Dressing Like a Slut Says
• What if You Don’t Believe in God?
• What Makes a Marriage Last
• When All the Presidential Candidates Stink – Call Canada!
• When Do You ‘Put Your Affairs in Order’?
• Who is Canada’s Prime Minister
• Why I’m Tired Of so Many Things
• Will you Quit Facebook?
• Women, Liberation, Freedom, Beauty – the Anti-Aging Scam
• Wrongology

This is my Creative Voice

• A Layered Portrait Within a Portrait
• A Satisfying Day at the ‘Gamma Dogs’ House
• Afternoon Tea in the Garden
• Alberta Flooding – Hidden Valley Golf Resort Updates
• Alberta Flooding – Hidden Valley Sky View
• Alberta Flooding – Hidden Valley, Siksika – East End
• Alberta Flooding – Hidden Valley, Siksika – June 21, 2013
• Alberta Flooding – Hidden Valley, Siksika – West End
• Alberta Flooding – Hidden Valley, Siksika Blue Bridge
• Alberta Flooding – Siksika Nation
• Alberta Flooding – The Darwin Law
• Basements – A Place for Home Reno Disasters
• Big Plans for a New Year – More Renos!
• Blogs About Food and Not Quite Food
• Bubble
• Cautionary Tales – Falling off the Roof and Securing a Pumpkin
• Chocolate – Here Today, Gone Today!
• Contemplating Sardines
• Distractions – Three Hours Later I Found the Twist Ties
• Draw Something! How to Make S’Mores – Traditional and Super Simple
• Eggs are Eggs-actly Complex and Interesting
• Even a Home Needs Good Signage
• Finding Comfort in My Rock Family
• Fire in the Hole! Oven Element Burns Up
• Fly Proof Your House
• Guests and Family – My Labour Pool
• Hands – Both Human and Card
• Here Today Gone Tomorrow Problems at Home – Computer, Health and Cars
• Hidden Valley Golf Resort – Post Flood Info
• Hidden Valley not Invisible Valley
• Home Electricity Project that was a Hoax
• Houses, Photos, Cupcakes, Smoothies
• Housework is Exercise – Get Dusting!
• How Local is Local? Test Case – My Carrots
• How to Boil Water on an Induction Cooktop
• How to Fix Your Bed so that it is a Snore Stopper
• How to Lose Weight – The Strawberry Diet
• How to Make a Simple Nutella Dessert
• How To Make Breakfast More Fun
• How to Make Devilled Eggs
• How to Plan a Gingerbread Party
• How to Save Paint Brushes from Drying out Mid-Project
• How to throw a Beer Tasting Party!
• I Spy with My Little Eye, Something that is Orange
• I Tried Being Subtle, But it Just isn’t my Style
• In Flanders Fields – Canadians in World War One
• In the Background – Window Reflection
• Induction Cooking – Pots and Pans
• Is it Grey or Gray?
• Keep Out! Declarations of Personal Privacy
• Layered Treats – S’mores and Rice Krispies
• Line Up the Usual Suspects – Gingerbread Men and Pyrogy
• Local Libraries, Books and the Guerrilla Librarian
• Macro Monday – A Rainbow of Jelly Bean Colours
• Macro Photo – A Study in Scarlet Wine Dregs
• Macro Photo of An Orange Peel
• Macro Photography – Rust Never Sleeps
• Macro Photos – Vaguely Familiar Abstracts
• Molson Canadian Beer Fridge – The Beery Best of Canada
• More Time – a Clock Collection
• Mushroom Compost is a Gift for Gardeners
• Mysterious Baskets and Magic Gas Tanks
• Nostalgia – Old Time TV’s and Toasters
• One of These Veggies is Not Like the Others
• Our Family Grows Up
• Pink Jobs and Blue Jobs in Our Household
• Poked – Barbed Wire and Rose Thorn Macros
• Rim Up or Rim Down? A History of Dust in the Kitchen
• Seeing the Possibilities – Seeds, Rocks and Sunrises
• Seeing Through Windows and Doors
• Shadow Play – Looking at Photography Differently
• Some Blue Things at my House
• Spring Cleaning at my Blog and at my House
• Super Bowl Quiz – The Winning Answers
• Temporary – Blog Posts, Laundry and Hair Cuts
• The Kitchen Reno – a Cutting Board Cart
• The Kitchen Reno – An Induction Cooktop
• The Kitchen Reno – New Trend Stone Countertops
• The Sad, Silent Coffee Machine
• The Winter Disorders – SAD and SDUSTD
• The Genealogy Hobby and my English Ancestors
• These Crafty Wooden Letters Spell Garden
• These Things Match up with Things on my Wants List
• Thoughts Fueled by Chocolate and Coffee
• Time and My Clock Walls – So Late So Soon
• Updating Past Stories – October 2012
• Urban Sprawl Moving my Way
• Visiting Cards – Yesterday and Today
• What Would Holmes Do with this Repair?
• Why I Choose to Be a Carnivore
• Windows – Eyes of the Home

This is my Naturalist Voice

• 5.5 Years and 5 Petal Flowers
• A Cold Alberta Morning – What Minus 20°C Looks Like
• A Few Days of Honking and Quacking
• A Frosty, Foggy Morning
• A Line Up of Sunrises
• A Three Moose Parade Behind my Alberta Yard
• Alchemilla mollis – Lost in the Details of a Raindrop
• An Alberta April Storm and We’re Snowed Under
• An Alligator at Gatorland, Florida
• Aquilegia – Promiscuous Cross Pollination
• Artful Shapes in an Icy Puddle
• As the Crow Flies, so Goes the Pink Ball
• At the Aquarium
• At the Cabin – Evicting the Bats in the Belfry
• August in Alberta – It Seems Early for Frost
• Bergenia cordifolia – Deep Pink Flowers
• Birds, Bees and Squirrels – Dinnertime in the Desert
• Blue-Eyed Grass – Easily Overlooked
• Bob Cats and Cottontail Rabbits in Arizona
• Bottlebrush Plant
• Cactus and Clouds – Curves
• Cactus Buds and Blooms – Future Tense in Arizona
• Cactus Spines – A ‘Don’t Touch Me’ World
• Cactus: Arizona Yard Full of Prickles
• Canada Thistle – Success Breeds Contempt
• Canadian Ice – All That it’s Cracked up to Be!
• Capturing a Frosty Morning in Alberta
• Carrots that Rebelled – Oddly Shaped Roots
• Clean Windows and a View of my Part of the World
• Close Up – Macro Spruce Resin and Zoom Moon
• Colour Me Green – The Hues in my Garden
• Cotoneaster Leaves
• Coyotes, Geese and Flat Stanley Goes to the Zoo
• Crabapple
• Crispy Ice Crystals – Macro Photos
• Dandelion – Common Weed with Beautiful Seeds
• Dill and the World of Fractals
• Draba and Daffodils are Cheery Yellow Flowers
• Fairy Duster Flowers – Intricate
• Fall Foliage
• Fall Foliage – Something that is Orange
• Fall Hoarfrost – A Lens Full of Crystals
• Fern – My Fiddle Headed Frond
• Flower Envelopes – Petals Before they Open
• Flowers Wearing Summer White
• Fog and Rain Drops on the Flowers
• Fog In the Early Morning Light
• Foliage Throughout the Seasons in Alberta
• Fox Tracks in my Alberta Yard
• Frozen
• Ghosting Orb – A Rainbow Lens Flare
• Grass is Crispy when the Dew Freezes
• Grass Paths From Here to There
• Grow Up, Snake!
• Hail – An Abrupt End to the Veggie Garden
• Hail – Weapons of Mass Destruction
• Hail Alley in Alberta – We Get Hit Again
• Half a World Away
• Hibiscus Flower – How to Turn a Photo into a Sketch
• Hibiscus Flower – Photo Effects
• I Don’t Want Your Squirrels
• I’d Rather Be… Here than There
• In the Woods
• Lady’s Slipper Orchid Mimics the Old Masters
• Lady’s Slipper Orchids – Surprise In the Ditch
• Leaf Me Alone, I’ll be Fine
• Leaves in the Fall – Encased in Ice
• Leaves in the Fall – When the Smoke Cleared
• Lily Spots – Macro Monday
• Macro Monday – Feather Iridescence
• Many Rocks and a Lot of Hardscape
• Moon Shots
• Moon Shots if you are a Night Hawk Photographer
• Moose Tracks in my Alberta Yard
• Mountain Ash Berries
• Musings about Moose in my Alberta Yard
• Noxious Weeds – the Outlawed Flowers
• Ocotillo – Prickly but I Wish Mine Would Grow Leaves
• On a Scale of Carousel to Roller Coaster, How Scary is this?
• Orange You Glad – A One Color Study
• Oriental Poppies – Some Shouting in the Garden
• Painted Daisies – No Lackadaisical Flowers Here!
• Pansies – Flowers of Many Faces
• Pansies and the First Flowers of Spring in Alberta
• Pets – The World According to Cats
• Pets – The World According to Dogs
• Photographs of a Half Moon and Sunrises
• Pools of Light on Snow at Night
• Poppies
• Poppies and Tulips – Conversations between Friends
• Prairie Willow Flower – Very Fuzzy
• Rabbit and Cat Be Gone – Don’t Dump Your Pets in the Country
• Rain Drops Make the Flowers Sparkle
• Recipe for a Dramatic Sunrise or Sunset
• Red as a Color of Emotion – Myths Busted!
• Reflecting on Raindrops and Bird Poop
• Right Place, Right Time
• Rosemary, Rabbits and Rattlers
• Roses that are Survivors
• Saguaro Cactus – Slow Growing Giants

This is my Photographr Voice

• Antelope Street Photography – Our Group
• Bad Spellers of the World, Untie!
• Complaints Department – Too Many Words, Too Little Time
• Photographs and the Right to Privacy
• Photos Containing the Letter ‘A’
• Photos Containing the Letter ‘B’
• Photos Containing the Letter ‘C’
• Photos Containing the Letter ‘D’
• Photos Containing the Letter ‘E’
• Photos Containing the Letter ‘F’
• See Spot. See Spot Run – Old Words, New Meanings
• The Alphabet has 26 Useful Letters, But Some are More Popular
• Where is the Letter ‘A’?
• Where is the Letter ‘B’?
• Where is the Letter ‘C’?
• Where is the Letter ‘D’?
• Where is the Letter ‘E’?
• Where is the Letter ‘F’?

This is my Tech Voice

• Anticipating a Better Picture – Over the Air Television
• Apples and Blackberries – My Blackberry is Not Working
• Canon PowerShot SX50 HS Camera – Zoom
• Canon PowerShot SX50 HS Manual
• Clean Your Computer Day
• Cloud Computing – Choosing What and Who
• Communications History – The Telephone
• Computer Based Devices Help People with Special Needs
• Computers 101 – How to Turn on Your Laptop
• Does Reality TV Reflect a Downward Intelligence Spiral?
• First Look at Windows 7
• How to Change File Formats
• How to Go Hunting for Computer Viruses
• How to Go Internet Router Shopping
• How to Improve Your Cell Phone Manual
• How to make Cell Phones Safer
• How to Prevent Mouse Fingeritis
• How to Recover from a ‘USB Device Not Recognized’ Message
• How to Replace iTunes with CopyTrans Manager
• How to Stalk a Sales Associate
• How to Use a Barnes and Noble NOOK 1st Edition in Canada
• i Encounter i Things – iPad How-to Lesson #1
• Internet Security – Microsoft, Norton, Webroot
• iPad 2 – A Six Day Journey
• Mac vs PC – A Sony Track Record
• Managaing Fonts in Windows 7
• My First Look at Windows 8.1
• My Sony VAIO VGN-AW420D Laptop Computer
• Programs Compatible with Windows 7
• The Computer that Thought it was a Groundhog
• The Slate Comes Full Circle – The iPad
• What my iPad2 has Taught Me
• Your Blog – What Do Your Visitors See?

This is my Travellers Voice

• 2010 Vancouver Olympics
• A Definition of Fall includes Fall Down
• A Motorcycle Ride on Montana Highways
• A Peek at Bourton-on-the Water
• A Visit to Never Never Land – Arizona
• After the Rain at Canyon de Chelly, Arizona
• Alberta – Land of Opportunity
• Alberta – Remember to Breathe
• Art Imitates Life – Vancouver Museum of Anthropology
• Artistic Arrangement of Produce and Architecture in Germany
• Artistic Looking Bridges
• Avebury Henge and Stone Circle
• Bicycle Fence in Washington
• Blanche Russell Rock Houses
• Button Up for Winter – Closing Down the Cabin
• Cabin For Sale
• Calf Creek Overlook – Highway 12, Utah
• Canada – 144 Years Old and Going Strong!
• Canada Thanks You, Mr. Beaver
• Canada’s Birthday – 145 Years Old
• Close One Door, Open Another
• Contrast – New and Old in Doha Qatar
• Disaster in Japan
• Donkey and Pancho – Boats and Sea Lions at Cabo San Lucas
• Driving By the Numbers Through Utah and Idaho
• Fairmont Hot Springs – Old Barn
• Fifty Shades of Grey in Photographs
• Fleeting Moment – Hutterites at the Playground
• Flower Power – Butchart Gardens, British Columbia
• Fly Air New Zealand
• Foreign Street Scenes – Germany, Qatar, Egypt
• Foreshadow of a Flood – Rain Clouds
• Four Hours to Evacuate at the Cabin
• From Arizona to Alberta – Grand Canyon
• From Chaos to Order – Photos of Grids
• Goldfield Arizona – Where History Comes Alive
• Golf Carts and Corn Stalks – After Flood Perspectives
• Hidden Valley – A Community Lost
• Hidden Valley – Re-entry
• Hiding Places Thanks to Nature
• I Regret I Didn’t Take More Photos
• In Hidden Valley – A Remembrance Poem
• Indulge – Extravagant Architecture in Las Vegas, Fort Lauderdale and Dubai
• Jerome, Arizona – Historic Copper Town and Spring Flowers
• Look Up – Waaay Up… The Picket Post Mansion, Arizona
• Looking Down a Canyon – Grand, Bryce, deChelly
• Man vs Nature – Ornate Designs
• Messages – Muddy and Otherwise
• Mosquito be Gone – The Downside of a Prairie Pothole
• Motorcycles on Going-to-the-Sun Road
• Note to the Human Vultures
• Path – Skiers, Water on a Window
• Peace and Quiet at the End of the Cabin Season
• Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden – Bark of a Different Kind of Tree
• Pronunciation Test: Escape or Es-ca-pay?
• RCMP – Law, Order and the Musical Ride
• Riot in Vancouver – It isn’t a Hockey Story
• Seashells in British Columbia
• Signs from Around the World
• Stores and Signage – A Bit of Humour
• Sunny Yellow Flowers at Goldfield Arizona
• Tall Ships, Victoria BC
• Texture and Sand in Deception Pass
• The Angry Bow River – 2011
• The Border between Hence and Thence – Fence and Border Photos
• The Colours of Water – Aquamarine and Boysenberry
• The Grand Canyon – Half and Half Vistas
• The Grandchildren – Herding Cats at the Cabin
• The Greenery of Arizona
• The Journey Starts and Ends at Kingswood Station, England
• The Summer Garage Sale
• The Weather Stone is Wet
• Together – Rock Columns at Bandelier Monument
• Travel Guides – The Missing Chapter on Toilets
• Trios, Triplet, Thirds – Photos of Three Things
• Unique – Fountain Hills Arizona and Disc Golf
• Unique Sights if you Travel in India
• Up Words – Balloons and Lights
• Waiting – Fisherman on a Wharf
• Welcome to Canada – The Vancouver Riot is Over
• When you are Vertically Challenged – Hope for a Shopping Cart
• Why There are Back-seat Drivers
• WWI Memorial – A Brooding Soldier

This is my Writers Voice

• ‘It Takes One to Know One’ Department
• A Few of the Many Types of Wit, Wisdom and Wordplay
• A Lighter Shade of Grey
• All the Best of The Universal Laws
• Ambushed by the Best Paraprosdokians
• Announcing My Blog to the Public
• Best Canadian Puns, Jokes and Observations
• Blogs and Pets Have Lots in Common
• Canada – a Little Fish in a Great Big Blogging Sea
• Canadian Blog Award Nominees
• Choosing a WordPress.com Theme
• Comment Etiquette – Do You Reply to All or Just Some?
• Commenters – The Strong Silent Types
• Comments, Halloween and a Blog Birthday – 2011
• Common Blogging Mistakes – To Fix or Not to Fix
• How to Insert Bold Quotation Marks
• How to Move Your Blog and Other Tasks
• I Should Have Bought a Cake
• I’m Blue – WordPress Sometimes Sucks the Joy Out of Blogging
• It took a while……… but I’ve finally arrived.
• Life, Time, and Where Is it Going
• More Puns – What These Words Can Also Mean!
• My Caption is in the Running
• My Coat of Arms
• My First Ever ‘WordPress In Review’ Report
• My Freshly Pressed Natural Disaster
• Playing with the Word ‘Egg’ – New Spellings for Old Words
• Press Release from The Never Been Freshly Pressed Club
• Punctuation – Exclamation Marks Aren’t All Bad!
• Reblogging and Image Copyright – Part 2
• Responsive to Change – My Cat and WordPress Themes
• Slow But Steady Blogging Progress
• Testing – A Post About Nothing
• The Best Puns Ever – Let’s Taco ’bout Them
• The Blogging Balance – Writing and Reading
• The Path from Your Blogging House to Mine
• The Real Story of the Cat, the Dog and the Rabbit
• The Rise and Fall of RivetPics
• The Unofficial WordPress ‘Never Been Freshly Pressed’ Club
• The Unofficial WordPress Undiscovered Club
• The Versatile Blogger Award
• The WordPress Snub – So You’ve Never Been Freshly Pressed
• To Comment or Not to Comment, That is the Question
• Today was a Day of Coincidence
• Transition – Beep Beep Boop is Gone?
• Tricky Questions – Thinking Outside the Box
• When Does Reblogging and Pinning Things Violate Copyright?
• Why I Think I am Entitled to Popularity
• WordPress Bloggers React to the Rainbow Banner
• WordPress.com – Upsetting the Balance
• Your Blog, Your Unique Story