Half a Kingdom
“When you wake up in the morning, you never can tell what might happen to you during the day.” So begins one of my favourite stories from my childhood, Half a Kingdom, based on an Icelandic folktale....
View ArticleHappy Birthday to my Blog!
It’s my blog’s first birthday today. Has it really been a year since I published my first post? Anyway, I thought I’d celebrate by sharing some of the more notable posts that have been published over...
View ArticleReliving Past Trauma
Last night, my four-year-old daughter had an accident. Playing in the living room before supper, she tripped, fell against a hard corner of the couch and knocked one of her front teeth loose. Once the...
View ArticleEuropean Multilingual Blogging Day 2012
November 14th is European Multilingual Blogging Day 2012, an event organised by the Euonym blog as part of Internet Week Europe. This post on the Diaries is meant to mark the occasion. The piece, which...
View ArticleHitting 40
Blogs reach milestones all the time: a hundred posts, a thousand followers, a hundred thousand visits. Bloggers reach milestones as well, of course. This particular blogger marked a very important date...
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