Answer Boards

Well as if I would try to answer anything on these boards. I'd be afraid to look so dumb. Terrible statement for a refernce librarian to make

Yet another Story site

Hear are some great short stories. Here! Here!

My Delicious Bookmark

What a delightful name for something I am still unsure of. But I have registered and also added a bookmark. Of course as I like to go for the easiest route I used the link to Story Corp I used in my post last night as my first bookmark.

Story Corp is an Oral History site of ordinary people, talking of ordinary things - but it is the ability to tell and retell our story that most aids our growth. The value of listening and telling cannot be emphasised enough in building and sustaining relationship.
Listen if you have a moment to Studs Terkel, the now deceased author talking on Vox Humana, the human voice.

So if you want more about stories and all things storytelling go to http://delicious.com/marilyn666

Stories to warm your heart

It seems so hard to keep this blog up to date - so much I want to add so little time. And I'm sure you have all heard me complain of the problems of trying to do this on dial up. Tonight I wanted to add a site I had breifly touched on but have not fully had a look. Getting is a problem, however, so is adding it as a blog . So instead I wuill cheat. Here it is - a link it's called StoryCorp. It promises to have some very heartwarming stories so corp http://www.storycorps.net/about.
Tomorrow I intend to look at it more fully as well as this one ... stay tuned!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a84IowoW00w

Hi Guys, you know how much I love kids songs, hope you all like this one.
Its Little Bunny Foo Foo

Yarns of many different colours - RSS is finally RS

Oral Tradition

OznAsia

ABSTRACT ART - award 1 per post Pool

Powerhouse Museum - Photo of the Day

Library Stuff

Finally, finally, finally I am getting the hang of this. My feeds are on - putting pictures on is now a breeze (thats my lounge room with the first four patches of the blanket coming together).

I could go on for hours about the reasons RSS took so long- the stories of attempts to get Powerhouse loaded only to have it fail.

Or of following the Photo of the Day ( Mosman Bay), my old stamping ground, only to end up on a Mosman Library Blog feeling pathetically inept.

Or the endless hours searching for links related to storytellers or childrens literature only to find that most of us (storytellers and childrens authors) are also pathetically inept and don't have RSS feeds. So most of my favourite journals either need you to pay for subcribng or they don't have links. Yes some of us are still old fashioned.

I didn't get around to following up knitting links as my title page implies. Been too busy sorting out odd sized knitting 'squares' to do that.

But cheers the group now has one blanket about to be sewn up into a Crazy pPtch blanket. Look out for more photos.

Holidays and Aftermaths

Holidays can be so much fun, but coming back to work and picking up the loose threads ccan be harder.

I did get to visit my son in Middlemount - way up north in a mining town. Now that is an experience.

I got my my stories off to editors and got interested bodies to endorse them. Compassionate Friends are currently reviewing my latest offering Craig's Story. This is the story of a young child who won't let anyone tell her her best friend is no longer around her even though he recently died. Very heartwarming.

I think though the worst part of holidays is trying to use a dial up network to communicate. So its back to the good old libraries to sort things out, catch up and say hello.

I did get to check some great sites though. If you remember storyteller John Shield you may like to check out his site, http://oznasia.blogspot.com/ and see what is happening in Thailand's storytelling scene.

I did get some other links, but where oh where did I put them.