Author Archives: maryjane

see you at our downtown sing-a-long

Come one and all to a sing-a-long with the Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute (the organization I founded 25 years ago) at the Kenworthy Theater! Come early for delicious homemade soup, bread, and dessert. Beverages will be for sale, provided by One World Cafe, which undoubtedly will be useful for those of you who need a little liquid courage for public singing. The Moscow High School Glee Club will perform to help get you in the mood, a documentary will be shown on John Denver, and then the floor will be opened up for anyone and everyone who loves to sing a good John Denver song! Dan Maher of Northwest Public Radio will be leadin’ the singin’. This is an event for all ages and sure to bring a smile to your face!

Click here for the Facebook event invitation.

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Ready for gleaming word olympics?

So one review of The Book of Awesome and many gleaming words later, I stumbled upon a website that is also awesome, but with their vocabulary! The website called randomlyawesomewords.com is dedicated to complex phrases you might hear during a game of Balderdash, and these stumpers are sure to have you scratching your head.

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Great Find: Bird pillow cases SOLD

Great finds galore! These beautiful bird pillow cases by Miss Wilma of Kentucky, are a Project F.A.R.M. (First-class American Rural Made) hand-embroidered product. Fall asleep to the delightful chirp of songbirds. $12 plus shipping ($12 for all four). Size is width by height.

14 X 16

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Is that a Great Pyrenees in a snow storm?

When an artist is staring at a blank piece of paper, her mentor might walk up to her and say, What is that, a polar bear in a snow storm?’ Well in this case, pretty much!

My Great Pyrenees guard dog, Periwinkle, finally fitting in.

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Crux

Crux. Crutch? Crunchy cereal? Or it is that black hole where all of the things you lose end up? Doesn’t that just drive you wild? You set your keys down right there, you swear you did! The cat must have hidden them, they must have “disaparated” (along with Harry Potter) … or most likely they slipped out of your pocket and are under the chair, carpet, or that shirt that was hastily tossed on the floor in your rush to make it out of the house. Let’s hope we can get to the crux of this problem.

Say it with me: Crux \ˈkru̇ks\ noun An essential point requiring resolution or resolving an outcome.
We are down now to the crux of the problem.

Ahh yes, the keys were in my pocket the whole time. I need a better system. Or … go back in time before locks were invented.