The Bookkeeper

I know, I am stretching it today…..:-). But at least we are talking about food in the broadest sense.                   Weekend Cooking is hosted by Beth Fish Reads Credits for the image: Background paper and overlay: Vera Lim, glitter flowers: TADA, Fonts: Naked Lunch and Salamander

I wanted to do something different this week and somehow haiku came to my mind. Are there any haiku about food? I wasn’t sure so I had a quick look through The Essential Haiku, my first stop when it comes to haiku. Turns out there are quite a few I liked, so I decided to [...]

April is National Poetry Month in the US and Canada. It is "a celebration of poetry first introduced in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets as a way to increase awareness and appreciation of poetry." Now I’m not one for poetry but maybe I should learn more about this literary form. For this week’s [...]

I decided to add another poetry angle to the blog with some of my favourite poems for variety. To be continued on an irregular basis. As night succeeds night, I seek in vain to decide Where my pillow should go. How did I sleep on the night When you appeared in my dream? Poem by [...]

Lately I’ve seen the new Pride & Prejudice & Zombies pop up everywhere. It seems to be quite good if you can let go of the thought that Jane Austen and zombies don’t go together. I’m not planning on reading it anytime soon, but found a few reviews if anybody is interested. Entertainment weekly.com Newsarama.com [...]

This week’s Weekly Geeks: How many of us remember a favorite pet from our childhood? Or have enjoyed visiting the zoo? Or relish in walking in the woods and hearing birdsong, or seeing a deer leap away through the brush? How many of us have been thrilled by a soaring eagle? How often have we [...]

I already mentioned computer haiku once in a previous post. Today I’m listing a few of my favourite computer haiku. Programmers or who ever comes up with error messages might want to take a look and get some inspiration.    Credits. for this page: paper: M. Fenwick, pictures: Stock exchange, sloppy snippet: Emily Farnworth, Fonts: [...]

I love haiku. I sometime do a scrapbook page with one of my favourite haiku in order to have them ALL turned into a poetry album one day. Here are some great haiku pages. First some of the traditional stuff: Haiku of Issa Haiku of Shiki Haiku of Basho Here you can see the differences [...]