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(Half a) Story Hour 📻 📚
Half an hour of stories for kids - and “kids” of all ages! #ReadResponsibly
A Prairie Transplant’s (First) Conference 🌾
Runnin’ back to Saskatoon to work on words… (Lyrics: The Guess Who)
The Turning of the Year 🍂
A New Year for nerds: thanks to the bees, condolences to the SiWC…
June Blooms
It’s a bloomin’ rainbow 🌈 #FoundStories #BackyardPride
“Outside Bones,” a Mini Masterpiece 🦷
Try(dent) not to get it stuck in your head! (Netflix, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
May Snaps (No Dragons, Yet) 📷🌷
May happy snappies… morning and evening garden glories. #FoundStories
(Plosive) April Showers ☔️🎙️
It never rains but it pours plosive “Ps…”
Shoots and Leaves 🌱
Spring sprouts the minute the thaw starts (soundtrack courtesy of backyard birds; hair courtesy of household dog). #FoundStories
I Always Liked Jar Jar Binks ✨
Best says it best: it’s been “‘our redemption, as the people who love Star Wars.’” (Quote: The Guardian)
“Ignorance Is Strength”
What year is it, again? 📚 (Sticker: gibbs-smith.com)
Sip the Tea with Drs. Marian and Tara*
No agony here - just side-splitting, real advice from two comic geniuses-turned-audio aunties. ☕️ (Image: BBC Radio 4)
Rêveries boulangerie / Bakery Reveries 🥐
La plainte de l’écrivaine sans boulangerie 24h. / 24-hour bakeries: a lament.
A Withered Valentine, Marching to the Ides
Does it still count as a "still life" if all the flowers are dead? #FoundStories
Stu White’s Lens on Life 🦊 🌄
Story = a lens that captures the light we long for? (Image: Stu White / Canadian Geographic)
This Week (a Dork!) in Radio… 📻
This week in radio: a dork makes invisible faces…
Top X: Television (#1, Happy Valley) 📺
Top ten(ish) TV shows: #1, the flawless Happy Valley.
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Exclamations (aside)…!
Stocking Resolution 🧦
Heroic hosiery: the return of the prodigal sock. #foundstories
Maeve’s 5-minute Master Class ❤️
A Valentine’s Day master class from a maestra of the human heart and the queen of Irish storytelling Herself, Maeve Binchy.
Sun Salutation: Stretching for the Light…
Succulent life lessons: reaching for the light in the dark of the year. #foundstories