A Storied Life: Recent Episodes
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his Podcast is comprised of comments from a discussion thread amongst my long time Computer person Beer Matinée group EMCC. The debate was between the Kindle and a Kobo e-readers.
All it's efforts have been thwarted until that special Countdown-to-Show clock begins ticking and they are finally allowed to bloom. They will never be this perfect again.
Not the Stock Market but my Hard Drive
Plus some bits and pieces on Paint Shop Pro, Incredimail and Photoshop
CORRECTION: this item now has the correct sound file.
"Do you think the rain will hurt the rhubarb?" was a familiar saying back in my hometown of Chatham, Ontario. The joke answer was "Not if it's in cans!" Here are some familiar sayings from my own and other families.
Photoshop and Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) While learning the intricacies of Photoshop I apply the knowledge attained to a new hobby - Artist Trading Cards
I live online, in a sense, and many of my friends are people I have met online, either through the earlier Bulletin Board Systems or in various Forums, here there and everywhere.
A tangled tale of sexual harassment, management fumbling the ball and an attempted deed of daring do.
A short, anecdotal podcast about a love triangle involving a psychiatrist, his wife, their pet ape and the poison, Thallium.
The Urban Entertainment Circuit aka the Chitlin Circuit played in theaters catering to primarily black audiences across the United States.
I include some memories from a night at the Apollo Theater in New York City.
A very special place in a very special time. A New York city Lower East Side coffeehouse in the 1960's. I was there.
Here's a special Link to more on Les Deux Megots
http://www.chefjuke.com/mom/drop1a.html
I had never been to Burlesque and I wanted to see what it was like. We went downtown to this hall that was like an old movie palace. There was even a pit orchestra, absolutely essential for emphasizing bumps and grinds and for the drumrolls etc need by the comedians for their punchlines.
Keywords: burlesque, skirt dance, vaudeville
51 - Danny Marks Interview
I have guested for several years on Danny Marks BLUZ FM on www.jazz.fm Here's an interview with Danny which included 3 song tracks.
Diabetes seeks out the weaker parts of your body and produces symptoms there The doctor said it looked like I had full fledged Diabetes II.
Well, darn! r
My adventures learning to tell fortunes. Beware what you say it may come true, as in the self-fulfilling prophecy.
It's a long trip from the corn and tobacco fields of Chatham, Ontario, Canada to the Lower East Side of New York City.
We attempt to bridge the culture gap with mixed success.
Spanish Civil War Songs, Union Songs and a Country and Western version of the International.
For a year I was an active seller on eBay and, for books, on abebooks. Here's a tale of how I fared and how it isn't easy.
Keywords: selling online, ebay, abebooks
Extreme panic as sewing machine malfunctions. On sewing and purses and the need to do so. Sewing from patterns and from my own designs is puzzle solving for me. Each completed project is a puzzle unraveled so to speak. I enjoy this.
How I adopted a radio program
- Danny Marks' Bluz Fm on
www.jazz.fm 91.1 on Toronto's FM dial
8:00 pm to Midnight on Saturdays
People and books which changed my life -Ghandi, George Washington Carver and Peter Kropotkin.
My online addiction to a massive multi-player war game. An entertaining look at a new way of socializing and a game complexity that rivals chess to some degree.
Music at its best is defined by a special synergy between audience and performer.
This is a look back at some special audiences I have known.
Web address update added.
The Blues have been background music for my life. Kept me going when times were tough. This podcast is a short tribute to the Blues
When you join a church you get instant community, a village. I joined both a local Anglican church and their choir where I, a female, got to sing with the baritones because I had a low voice and couldn't sing parts.
River Road
Towards the end of WWII we lived on River Road in Chatham, Ontario. This is the story of how I saved my sister from a ferocious sow who was defending her piglets. Here also is the sad tale of Rooster Booster and more....
To say I'm a radio fan is an understatement. I listen in all kinds of ways. Sometimes I lose track of how many ways I listen.
I have a fairly extensive website and on it are some pages of interest to the listener.
My listen live links where you can choose a radio station to listen to is at
http://www.soniabrock.ca/listen-live.htm
I have a page for world radio at
http://www.soniabrock.ca/world-radio.htm
New York City's Lower East Side in the '60s was kind of rough and this Podcast reflects that.
In New York City my cat narrowly escapes a hot bath. Introduced, suitably enough given the current headlines, by a blues number involving tenements and bedbugs.
A family secret and stories of WWI and WWII. Leap Castle in Ireland and a smelly ghost!
Leap Castle has a weird reputation for frightening hauntings.
An evil-smelling creature, half human and half beast, exuding
an abominable stench, is said to roam its lower regions.
This Podcast is about growing African Violets. You have been warned.
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I signed up at a Tae Kwon Do gym.
Now started a more rigorous physical regimen unfamiliar to my office sedentary body.
It was like paying to join the Marines.
Some tales out of school about working for the Canadian Federal Government
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The 60's folk boom and a magical reunion of two great blues artists at Gerdes in New York City
Family Life in the 1920's in Port Dover and St. Thomas, Ontario - with some perilous escapes.
I discovered that folk music consisted primarily of three chords and, guess what? I knew three chords on the ukelele!
Magick happens to you. When you focus you embody the center of your focus, which changes your world view and that ends up changing your world.
When I was smaller my mother used to read me the Raggedy Ann stories and the most fascinating part for me was, when the people were away, the dolls would stop pretending to be not alive and 'come to life
I got an Mp3 Player and had to put something in it. I already listened a lot to Internet radio shows, especially talk shows.
On death row in Raiford, Florida I spotted a man called Tod, an artist who read science fiction.
How early adoption of computer technology changed my life, for the better, I should add.
My father always wanted a boy. This was common knowledge in the family. I was the first born and the first disappointment. As soon as I was old enough to understand the problem I determined to remedy the matter by becoming a very thorough tomboy.