.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } between nowhere and nowhere © Raffaella Loro It's not so nice outside that I would care to wander the streets during my lunch hour. Having brought my lunch to work, but neglecting to bring both my camera and knitting, meant that my...

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I'm positively at the edge of my seat this afternoon. All of my projects are complete but due to the nature of the beast, I have to scramble to fill this last hour and a half of my day. Which poses the question about productivity at work. Not every job has a steady stream of things to be done. I don't work in...

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Some people take coffee breaks. I take a break to visit my neglected blog. It's Friday, the end of week two of gainful employment. All things are well. I've received necessary training to add to my responsibilities (I am now a certified content author, joining the ranks of some 200 others) and I've made some useful contacts that will perhaps lead into an...

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I often wonder about people and their aspirations. Do they dream big or dream small? Are they concerned with making a big splash, having whale sized ambition... or are they interested in more ordinary successes, performing small acts that might someday amount to being remembered even by a few as a great person.I suppose that we all have the occasional dreams of fame,...

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } the lie © Raffaella Loro For all the huffing and puffing I was doing today about trying to engage in the real world, look at me here now, doing just the opposite. I'm venting online, to no one in particular. But that's...

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A tutor who tweeted tried to tutor two others to tweet. Said the two to their tutor: "Is it harder to tweet or to tutor two to twitter?" One of my brothers used to joke that my laptop was like an umbilical cord to the world. That was probably at the height of my flickr addiction (which hasn't really waned that much)and also...

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;  A very good friend of mine moved to Vancouver yesterday. The news of his move did not come as a surprise but the rate at which he departed has been a bit of a shock. I've endured people moving away many times before,...

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } I'm getting even with you for this, Wonka, if it's the last thing I ever do! I've got a blueberry for a daughter... © Raffaella Loro I haven't blogged for some time now.I suppose I've been busy knitting instead. ...

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