Hanne Armstrong

New BOOKS! New SITE! New FORMATS! Check it out, and let me know if things are working! www.hannearmstrong.ca

His narrative flowed; all you had to do was step aboard the raft of his books, and he'd take you on wonderful, exciting journeys. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55301305

So, until very recently, I have thought that rainworms were different from earthworms. They are not, it turns out. As a kid, I always used to try to save the rainworms crawling along drying sidewalks after rain. I missed them in Alberta, and in the country in New Brunswick where there were no sidewalks. But there are tons of rainworms on the sidewalks here during the rain. When I thought they were rainworms, I thought, oh, poor things, they are rainworms, and designed to com...e out in the rain. They can't help being where they are. Now I know that they are really earthworms, I can't help but think, hey, maybe they should know better, and stay on the grass, even if the soil is saturated..... But I still try to save them. See more

A few quotes have been rattling around in my head the last few Covid days. "...not with a bang, but a whimper." Kind of depressing, it's the last line of TS Eliot's The Hollow Men; the full quote goes, "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper." Well, I shove that quote out of the way, and another pops in. A little less depressing, really. It's the title of Ernest Hemingway's famous book: The Sun Also Rises. Yup. The title is the quote. Kind of hop...eful, in a way. It's from one of the epigrams of the book, a quote from Ecclesiastes: "One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever. . . The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to the place where he arose." See more

Wow, I've been quiet for quite a while, but here's a link to what I hope will be an entertaining and perhaps thought-provoking Dialogue between COVID and OVID. https://bit.ly/2UNg8av

New Blog post, a doggy one called The Power of a Dog, that starts this way: "It wasn’t long after Sammi and I moved to Niagara Falls that we got used to having a car pull up beside us and an occupant asking me for directions. I guess having a dog is a bit like wearing a sign saying 'this person is local, 'and people figure you’re a good bet to know the area." Read the whole post at http://www.hannearmstrong.ca/blog/the-power-of-a-dog

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Spring. Flowers, warmth, rain, and for me at least, driving.... http://www.hannearmstrong.ca/blog/spring-fever