tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17123532074607859932024-02-19T05:36:48.713+01:00Adornments for Dreamsis about jewellery-making and other forms of creativity.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.comBlogger543125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1712353207460785993.post-3396151605781102422017-10-17T02:33:00.002+02:002017-10-17T02:33:12.438+02:00To remember my childhood's Halloween: a candy corn bracelet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1712353207460785993.post-22182211343112781422017-10-15T18:15:00.002+02:002017-10-15T18:15:20.150+02:00Now I have 100 items in my Etsy shop! Here is the one hundredth item:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My one hundredth item is a pair of rose hip earrings. What are rose hips? They are the fruit of wild roses and can be harvested in September-October in Northern Europe. This is what they look like:<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">IWSG - Insecure Writer's Support Group for Wednesday,<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">6</span>th <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">January</span> 201<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">6</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is my <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">thi<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">rt<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">y</span>th</span></span> post for IWSG, </span></i></b></span><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">written on <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">9</span>th <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">January</span> 201<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">6</span>:</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It has been such a busy time that I<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> did not <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">p</span>ost anything for December. Alex m<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ay have already removed my name from the list because of my tardines<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">s with this January post. </span></span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Oh well. I'll still here. </span></span></span>I<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> am still</span> struggl<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ing</span> with my schoolwork <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">for</span> the university, but th<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e good news is that I actua<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">lly got a part time teach<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ing job! Surprise! Surprise! I'll be teaching English for teenagers at <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">a local gymnasium! (gymnasium=approximat<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ely the same as high sc<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">h</span>ool<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">) I have already been given the key to the school and I will start teaching next week, on Wed<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">nesday. (<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Yippee!!!!!!)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am sorry to hav<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e</span> to cut this short. I need to write three pap<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ers for the <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">U</span>niversity. But I<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> promise to keep in touch and write more as s<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">oon as t<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ime allows.</span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is my twenty-ninth post for IWSG, </span></i></b></span><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">written on 24th October 2015:</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I continue to struggle with my schoolwork at the university and making ends meet on a low-paying job that does not cover <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the cost of</span> living. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It's fun. I am really enjoying this. It makes me feel young again. And I may be able to get through the work thanks to these budding friendships<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, my "study-buddies".</span>We have started making jokes about our work and our teachers - and we are laughing out loud together. I think this is something that I have been missing for many years. The feeling of being accepted for who I am without having to put on an act. They seem to like me for me</span></b><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com6Norrköping, Sverige58.587745 16.19242099999996858.455327 15.869697499999967 58.720163 16.515144499999966tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1712353207460785993.post-41847647661821451082015-10-07T02:14:00.000+02:002015-10-18T13:44:44.994+02:00IWSG - Insecure Writer's Support Group for Wednesday, 7th October 2015<a href="http://alexjcavanaugh.blogspot.se/p/the-insecure-writers-support-group.html"><img alt="http://alexjcavanaugh.blogspot.se/p/the-insecure-writers-support-group.html" border="0" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihW_A7n8Gx0LbdO1rSiBgCxQBCuF3Oi1XxQVZG2ypf7aqvl-9cTcQDfqHOMPl96a4MfmVk4zO9g7Qy0KuNoPtJ768MlK7OTn9TGSrQVN4LPxJU8ex9T3wWz5qQM_DoJ7Mr9br89b5AwRE/s320/InsecureWritersSupportGroup.jpg" width="200" /></a>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">There is nothing more humbling for a wannabe writer than reading very, very good literature from the Literary Canon. I've decided to write a term paper on one of Jane Austen's novels, <i>Northanger Abbey</i>, and I am also doing a group presentation about Ann Brontë's novel, <i>The tenant of Wildfell Hall</i>.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">My eleven year old daughter, Elisabet, had two free days from school last week and could accompany me to the university in Linköping. We rode the special campus commuter bus together and Elisabet got to meet my classmates and instructors. But Elisabet was too shy to speak English with any of them. And she almost went through the roof when we discovered that I had forgotten to pack her head phones the second day out. She used them on Thursday when we were in the group presentation class. She could look at her I-pad while the rest of us spoke English. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">We came early enough to stop by the office of the grammar-teacher, Emile Farmer, whom I have mentioned earlier on this blog. He's a charming, funny Brit who still only speaks just a little Swedish. When I tried to persuade my daughter to say something - ANYTHING - and in any language, to Mr Farmer, she said nothing and just looked grumpy.</span></b><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com5Norrköping, Sweden58.587745 16.19242099999996858.455327 15.869697499999967 58.720163 16.515144499999966tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1712353207460785993.post-28578513230753970232015-10-05T21:50:00.000+02:002015-10-18T13:50:43.992+02:00Question of the month (5th October): Who would play you in a movie of your life?<a href="http://www.alifeexamined.com.au/p/blog-page_26.html"><img alt="http://www.alifeexamined.com.au/p/blog-page_26.html" border="0" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7LW3IPi1DUGA0t2KaqjRhUfLkBHYgkTVH7YR9vgX-qMiSsGTfQ5WejoWAfPjmKg-IbaPyejVPmn32TMdOgljR1HiJRoc_ZrbpYy4b-y1VfVhu3tg2DOZfyhc8iTrKx1s9InWY9GvY2uc/s320/QotMBadge.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Maybe if Jodie Foster dyed her hair mousie grayish-brown and put on glasses, she might look more like me than, let's say,</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman or </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Gwyneth Paltrow.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'm no beauty, but I think I have bright eyes and a winning smile.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I've just finished reading about the memorials to the passengers on flight 93 that crashed in rural Pennsylvania. (I am writing this on 11th September.) Those innocent people perished 14 years ago today, while trying to stop terrorists from crashing into the Capitol Building or the White House. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Flight 93 was the only one of the hijacked airplanes that did not reach its goal. The other aircrafts did, the Pentagon and the World Trade Center were hit. The black box and GPS- and cellular telephone calls to loved ones from the passengers on flight 93 seem to indicate that they made an effort to stop the terrorists. The pilot, </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Jason Dahl, put the plane on automatic pilot to make it difficult for the hijackers just before they overtook the cockpit. The passengers got together and voted on trying to break into the cockpit with a food cart. They may have succeeded in breaking open the cockput and killing one of the terrorists, but not in time to avoid the crash. The plane plowed into</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> an empty field in Stonycreek, Pennsylvania and all 44 on board died. But no one on the ground was hurt. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I don't want to be remembered for something like that. I want to live a long, happy and uneventfull life. And I am sure that all of those people trapped in tall buildings or taken as hostages on hijacked airplanes would have prefered that too. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Read my comment about a young fire fighter named Stark. Here is a picture of the memorial to the fire fighters:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In a comment, Michael has suggested Anne Hathaway as a possible candidate if I succeed in becoming a memorable writer. She is such a good actress and looks good too! Yes, please! Yes, please!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Thanks so much for your input, Michael! I really like Anne Hathaway in the film roles that I have seen her, as The White Queen in <i>Alice in Wonderland</i> and as Andrea Sachs in <i>The Devil wears Prada.</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Yes, I do want to be remembered after my time is up. Even if I only live an uneventful life, I still want to be remembered by my family and friends. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">As we all do, I would have prefered all of the victims of 9/11 to have survived and been able to live out their natural lives. But nothing can change the fact that their lives were brutally ended; and I think they deserve every memorial they can get. They should be remembered. That is one of the reasons I have mentioned them in this post. I want them to be remembered as I remember my loved ones who were able to live normal lives. </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I wrote a long story about one of my first jobs, which made me stop and think about my career. Unfortunately, I have never had a job that I have even liked. I cannot answer the question 'What's the best job you've ever had?' because I have never ever been happy being someone's employee. </span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I had my own small firm for many years and worked as a free-lance illustrator for many different advertising agencies and some book publishers. But I don't feel very successful. The compitition was fierce and I regret even trying to make it in that branch. I wasted precious time that I could have used to do other things that have a more lasting value.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am trying not to dwell too much on my past mistakes, because feeling like a failure drains the energy and psychic stamina that I need do what I am trying to do now, which is to just keep going.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am trying to avoid setting up impossible goals that will only make me feel depressed when I fail, and instead, give myself small goals or 'baby-steps' to accomplish. So that I can feel good and pat myself on the back and still have enough energy to continue working.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Instead of writing about the best job I've ever had, meaning a glamourous and well-paying job, I'd like to say something about the very best 'job', meaning the very best 'role' in life that I have ever had or ever will have: being the mother of my children, Erik and Elisabet. Nothing at the employment office will ever top that.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This is my twenty-seventh post for IWSG, </span></i></b></span><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">written on 30th August 2015:</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">And I am also working slowly on restocking my jewellery-shops. My creative writing is on the back-burner this term. I need this teaching degree. I need a job. TIme is running out for me. Money too.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Anna Nordeman</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">IWSG - Insecure Writer's Support Group for Wednesday, 5th August 2015</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This is my twenty-sixth post for IWSG. </span></i></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cajsa was the mother of thirteen kittens in three litters. She was my dear friend, companion, inspiration and comfort. May she rest in peace.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cajsa is buried on the farm in a grave next to her daughter, <a href="http://annas-adornments.blogspot.se/2013/02/sara-cat-june-6th-2000-february-6th-2013.html">Sara</a>, who died 6th February 2013.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Sorry, I'm late with this post, <a href="http://www.alifeexamined.com.au/2015/08/question-of-month-august-2015.html">Michael</a>. Here is my answer to your question,</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This is my twenty-fifth post for IWSG. Did you miss my belated IWSG-post for June? Find it <a href="http://annas-adornments.blogspot.se/2015/06/iwsg-insecure-writers-support-group-for.html">here</a>.</span></i></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Yes, I was going to write something about working with translations, but I have had no to finish this post. I have had much to do finishing several university courses and working at my new part-time job that I have not been able to post this on time. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">And I am not finished with my incomplete courses yet. I finished an education course and an English course this spring term, but I still have a paper to write for history. I have promised to turn it in the first week of August. And then the fall term starts in mid-August. I will be taking a course in English.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">It seems that my dealings with cats are not over. At the age of 76, my former sister-in-law decided that she did not want any more kittens to take care of and find homes for. So I said that we would help her. And then one of her year old kittens gave birth to four kittens. So we have nine cats that need new homes. But they are living on the farm, not in our tiny apartment in town.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">All I want to do now is to apologise to Alex and hope that he has patience with me. I have lots of ideas for IWSG-posts, but sometimes my computer time is limited.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">¤ Discourages the tendency to censor or edit.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">¤ Brings writing down to a primal level.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">¤ Provides a change of pace.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">¤ Frees imagination by allowing sloppiness.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">¤ Frees us from distractions.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">¤ Discourages the tendency to censor or edit.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">¤ Brings writing down to a primal level.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">¤ Provides a change of pace.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">¤ Frees imagination by allowing sloppiness.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">¤ Frees us from distractions.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">¤ Allows a critical editing during transcription.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">¤ Gives us an instant hard copy.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The April Challenge was almost too much for me. Sometimes, I regretted signing on. Not because of all of you wonderful people participating, no, because of me. I just did not have enough time to do it as well as all of the things that I should and must do. I needed and need to get my off-line-life in better order. </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Having said all of this, I don't want anyone to interpret my comment as a criticism of the A to Z Challenge. It's wonderful! I don't want you to change it. I just cannot keep up with it; at least not right now. I have an ex-husband who will sue me for sole child-custody at the drop of a hat. He has tried to do so twice. And happily for me, he has failed twice. (The latest time </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">that I was in court about this was on 31st March -- the day before the April Challenge!)</span></span></b> I let my son move to live with his father last fall, but I am still my son's guardian. My daughter still lives with me thanks to a very good lawyer and a fair judge.</span></span></b></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.com5Norrköping, Sweden58.587745 16.19242099999996858.455327 15.869697499999967 58.720163 16.515144499999966tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1712353207460785993.post-39231760027020959962015-04-30T09:55:00.000+02:002015-05-06T09:58:32.822+02:00Blogging from A to Z in April - The Letter Z - Thursday 30th April 2015<br />
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Thursday 30th April 2015 - The Letter Z<br />
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Z is for 'ZEST', which is <i>IVER</i> in Swedish.<br />
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Yes, Z is a part of the Swedish alphabet, but it is not a well-used letter because the z-sound that we say in English does not exist in the Swedish sound system. If you are going to learn how to speak proper Swedish, you will just have to leave your buzzing Z:s at home!</div>
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As Tina Downey pointed out in her <a href="http://kmdlifeisgood.blogspot.se/2012/04/alphabetalfabet.html"><i>Postcards from Sweden</i></a>, the Swedish alphabet does not end with the letter Z. There are three more letters tagged on at the end: Å, Ä and Ö.</div>
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One fun thing about these letters is that two of them are a word in itself. <i>Ö</i> is an island in Swedish and <i>Å</i> is a creek or small river.<br />
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There is a <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/G%C3%A5_inte_%C3%B6ver_%C3%A5n_efter_vatten">Swedish proverb</a> using the word <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85">å</a>*</i>: <i><i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/G%C3%A5_inte_%C3%B6ver_%C3%A5n_efter_vatten" title="Gå inte över ån efter vatten">Gå inte över ån efter vatten</a></i>,</i> 'Don’t cross the stream to get water', meaning 'Don't do things needlessly complicated; settle with a simpler solution when there exists one.' "Carry coals to Newcastle."' (<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/G%C3%A5_inte_%C3%B6ver_%C3%A5n_efter_vatten">Source.)</a></div>
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Another fun fact about these characters is how they became what they are: letters you have seen before, but with extra dots or accent marks. But they are letters in their own right. You cannot remove the dots or the circle without changing the meaning of the words that are spelled with them. How did this start?</div>
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The Å, which looks like an <i>A</i> with a tiny ring on top, was originally spelled as two A:s (aa). But after a time, writers or scribes wanted to save space and wrote a tiny <i>A</i> over the one <i>A</i>. It became a circle over the <i>A</i>.</div>
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Both <i>Ä</i> and <i>Ö</i> have a similar history. They were first spelled with an extra 'E' afterwards, as 'ae' and 'oe'. The 'E' was later placed over the 'A' or the 'O' in order to save space. Then the tiny raised 'E' became just a squiggly line and then finally just two dots.</div>
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You can see this development if you look at very old handwritten documents or very old printed texts. These tiny letters became <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic">di</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic">acritical marks</a>**.</div>
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Thank you for visiting my blog posts for A to Z in April 2015, which were dedicated to the memory of Tina Downey, who did so much to make the A to Z in April Challenge work. </div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A5#Swedish">Source</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">* Watercourses in Sweden and the other Nordic countries are in Swedish usually referred to as <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/b%C3%A4ck" title="bäck">bäck</a></i>, <i><b class="selflink">å</b></i> or <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A4lv" title="älv">älv</a></i>. An <i>å</i> is usually larger than a <i>bäck</i> (brook, creek) but smaller than an <i>älv</i> (large river). A certain large <i>bäck</i> may however be larger than a certain small <i>å</i>, and a certain large <i>å</i> may be larger than a certain small <i>älv</i>. The word to use about a certain watercourse is often included as part of its name: <i>Göta <b>älv</b></i>, <i>Stång<b>å</b>n</i>. There are regional differences in whether watercourses of a certain size tend to have <i>å</i> or <i>älv</i> in their names. All <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A4lvar" title="älvar">älvar</a></i>
are found north of Göteborg, but that is also where the largest rivers
in Scandinavia are found. For some rivers in southern Sweden the word <i>ström</i>
is used, since that is the watercourse word included in their names.
Rivers in other parts of the world are usually referred to with the word
<i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flod" title="flod">flod</a></i>, which is a more neutral word for any watercourse larger than a <i>bäck</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">**D</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">iacritic Marks (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic">Source</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">A <b>diacritic</b> <span class="nowrap"><span class="IPA" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English">/</a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="/aɪ/ long 'i' in 'bide'">aɪ</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="/./ syllable break">.</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="/ə/ 'a' in 'about'">ə</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="/ˈ/ primary stress follows">ˈ</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="/ɪ/ short 'i' in 'bid'">ɪ</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="/ɨ/ 'e' in 'roses'">ɨ</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span></a></span><span class="IPA" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English">/</a></span></span> – also <b>diacritical mark</b>, <b>diacritical point</b>, or <b>diacritical sign</b> – is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyph" title="Glyph">glyph</a> added to a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_%28alphabet%29" title="Letter (alphabet)">letter</a>, or basic glyph. The term derives from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a> <i>διακριτικός</i> (<i>diakritikós</i>, "distinguishing"), which is composed of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">ancient Greek</a> <i>διά</i> (<i>diá</i>, through) and <i>κρίνω</i> (<i>krínein</i> or <i>kríno</i>, to separate). <i>Diacritic</i> is primarily an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjective" title="Adjective">adjective</a>, though sometimes used as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun" title="Noun">noun</a>, whereas <i>diacritical</i> is only ever an adjective. Some diacritical marks, such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_accent" title="Acute accent">acute</a> ( ´ ) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_accent" title="Grave accent">grave</a> ( ` ), are often called <i>accents</i>.
Diacritical marks may appear above or below a letter, or in some other
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</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The main use of diacritical marks in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_script" title="Latin script">Latin script</a> is to change the sound-values of the letters to which they are added. Examples from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> are the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_%28diacritic%29" title="Diaeresis (diacritic)">diaereses</a> in <i>naïve</i> and <i>Noël</i>, which show that the vowel with the diaeresis mark is pronounced separately from the preceding <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel" title="Vowel">vowel</a>; the acute and grave accents, which can indicate that a final vowel is to be pronounced, as in <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sak%C3%A9" title="Saké">saké</a></i> and poetic <i>breathèd</i>; and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedilla" title="Cedilla">cedilla</a> under the "c" in the borrowed French word <i>façade</i>, which shows it is pronounced <span class="IPA" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_alveolar_fricative#Voiceless_alveolar_sibilant" title="Voiceless alveolar fricative">s</a>/</span> rather than <span class="IPA" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_velar_stop" title="Voiceless velar stop">k</a>/</span>. In other Latin alphabets, they may distinguish between <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym" title="Homonym">homonyms</a>, such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> <i>là</i> ("there") versus <i>la</i> ("the"), which are both pronounced <span class="IPA" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[la]</span>. In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_type" title="Gaelic type">Gaelic type</a>, a dot over a consonant indicates <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenition" title="Lenition">lenition</a> of the consonant in question.</span><br />
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a letter modified by a diacritic may be treated either as a new,
distinct letter or as a letter–diacritic combination. This varies from
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Y is for <i>YR</i>, which means 'DIZZY' in Swedish. The word <i>YRVAKEN</i> was the word Tina Downey featured for the letter 'Y' in her 2012 A to Z post. </div>
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I love the word <i>yrvaken</i>. It describes the confusion of waking up and not knowing exactly where you are or what time it is. A truly wonderfully descriptive Swedish word. Read Tina Downey's post about <i>yrvaken</i> <a href="http://kmdlifeisgood.blogspot.se/2012/04/y-yrvaken-more-than-fits-here.html">here.</a></div>
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X is for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylophone">'XYLOPHONE</a>', which is spelled <a href="http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylofon"><i>XYLOFON</i></a> in Swedish.<br />
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