Tag: norway
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November 07, 2008 01:17 PM EST --
A Length of Tattered Curtain
In the fairy tale
she cannot help herself.
The beastly silhouette, so fraught with mystery and danger
compels her gaze.
The great white bear with candles . . .
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April 21, 2007 04:26 AM EDT --
I have my own faves, of course, but I want to hear yours...
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November 15, 2006 05:30 PM EST --
One of my great joys of traveling is food. I'm just back from two weeks in Norway and Sweden. When people ask me how the trip was, the first thing I remember is the food.
In Sweden, . . .
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December 30, 2008 12:35 AM EST --
Thank you, thank you to my Gather friends Leah Christensen and j-frugal mom-r. for helping me put together the music for the Daughters of Norway Danish Christmas program! You are the best! Thanks . . .
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January 01, 2009 04:41 AM EST --
Oslo: As Norway rings in the new year, it will introduce a new law making the purchase -but not the sale- of a sex a criminal act, threatening even to put Norwegian who buy sex abroad behind bars. . . .
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November 02, 2009 03:19 AM EST --
Me, pick up a brush? I haven't done artwork in over thirty years...
But I have always admired folk painting, and last week I got the opportunity to take a class in Norwegian-style folk painting . . .
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May 17, 2008 08:15 PM EDT --
Random Factoid of the Day:
Today is Norwegian Independence Day.
It is celebrated much like we do in the United States. They have a huge parade(usually one in each large town), with most people . . .
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November 19, 2008 07:27 PM EST --
This is my parents' immigration story:
In the Family section of a Dayton, Ohio Daily newspaper circa September 1955, is a picture of a slim, dark-haired beauty who smiles at her sister, an apple . . .
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November 03, 2006 07:20 PM EST --
Well, I'm back from my vacation of looking for trolls in Sweden and Norway. While I did not find any trolls, I may have had one of Norway's Legendary Nisse play a trick on me. On . . .
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September 27, 2006 04:01 PM EDT --
I'm getting ready to go to Norway and Sweden so I'm thinking a lot about trolls. One of my favorite Stephanie Hemphill (MPR reporter in Duluth) stories is her interview with Lise Lunge-Larsen, . . .
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December 24, 2008 03:28 PM EST --
After taking my exchange students to go cosmic mini golfing, we decided to go out for Pizza at a Pizza Buffet nearby. My exchange son, Marius, and our friend Lasse from Denmark, decided to have a pizza . . .
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January 13, 2007 04:33 AM EST --
While I have been many places, there is so much more of the world I wish to discover. London/Stonehenge and Australia were on the top of the list since childhood and I finally got to see those glorious . . .
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August 01, 2007 05:52 PM EDT --
I WAS INVITED by my friend "Louise," who is in one of my bands, to get together to play music, just the two of us. She offered to feed me whatever meal was closest to our playing session. Louise lives . . .
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October 05, 2006 01:55 PM EDT --
This 1906 Swedish stamp homors Ramon Cajal (right) and Camillo Golgi (center). The figure on the left is probably the winner of a different prize. Cajal & Golgi won the prize for . . .
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September 06, 2007 10:06 PM EDT --
An Expert's Guide to
FREE Cruises and Tours
By
M. Bradley McCauley
© 2003
MK Publications
All Rights Reserved
Copying in any format, print or electronic, without
permission of the author is . . .
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July 15, 2008 11:45 PM EDT --
Recently my sister introduced me to indie/pop musician Maria Mena from Norway.
Her voice is stunning, her lyrics are hard-hitting, and she just plain makes you think... some songs on her album Apparently . . .
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September 27, 2008 02:58 PM EDT --
This is in memory of my grandmother, Lizzie, who died in late 1997. Her one marriage, resulted in two daughters that emmigrated to America to produce their own children and grandchildren, . . .
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September 22, 2009 12:59 PM EDT --
Former Miss Norway and Playboy model Monica Hansen hit the news a few months back when she sued her ex-boyfriend and plastic surgeon Dr. Leonard Hochstein . Seems Hochstein was using pictured of . . .
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June 25, 2007 07:57 AM EDT --
Many folks have made fun of others for 'wasting their time' posting thiings to Internet sites such as Gather and Associated Content. I have always countered with Yeah? But you never know who is . . .
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January 18, 2008 10:33 PM EST --
Tonight I posted a step by step on my art blog and I would love to get comments from you on it. I have copied and pasted it here but would love for you to comment on the blog. This is a painting . . .
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