My Creatively Random Life

A popular, young royal couple can't produce an heir? INCONCEIVABLE! When Ozarks native Hatty goes “whole hog” during karaoke, she catches the eye of Prince John. He isn’t what she expects the heir to a small European nation to be: he's affable, witty, and isn’t put off by her tell-it-like-it-is demeanor. Their flirtation should be short lived, but a force stronger than fate—Hatty’s newspaper editor—assigns her to cover the royals. After spending time together, she and John soon begin dating, and Hatty finds herself making headlines instead of writing them.  But challenges loom that are even more complicated than figuring out how to mesh Hatty's journalism career with life at Belvoir Palace. Hatty and John soon find themselves embroiled in an unusual sex scandal: they can't produce an heir. Tabloids dub Hatty a “Barren-ess,” and the royals become irate. Hatty politely tells them to shove it. But beneath her confident exterior, she struggles to cope with a heartbreak t...

Reading is one of my most favourite things to do so I thought that reviewing a book every day for the challenge would be so easy, turns out I was wrong.  So far I have fallen down the rabbit hole of three authors and I am only at I. My I book is Imhotep by Jerry Dubs. "Imhotep" is the first book in a four-novel series about the ancient Egyptian architect.  Stumbling in the dark of an unfinished tomb beneath the sands of Saqqara, American tourist Tim Hope unknowingly passes through a time portal that leads to ancient Egypt — a time before the Sphinx, before the great pyramids of Giza, and long before the loss of his beloved Addy.  When he discovers that two other Americans preceded him through the time portal, Tim immerses himself in the ancient world to search for them. As he becomes more comfortable with the simpler, more immediate land, he finds himself irresistibly attracted to the delicate Meryt, a wbt-priestess for the god Re.  Learning that a se...

Ineluctable Definition: impossible to avoid or evade: inevitable Sentence: Bumping into Karen at the market was ineluctable. Inchoate  Definition: 1. to be in an initial or early stage; just begun; 2. imperfectly formed or formulated Sentence: The captain's orders were an inchoate series of words that left everyone confused. Iconoclast Definition:  someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions. Sentence:  Jobs is a classic iconoclast, one who aggressively seeks out, attacks, and overthrows conventional ideas.                        — Business Week (Oct 12, 2010) Impecunious Definition:  not having enough money to pay for necessities. Sentence:  It had been quite in keeping with his ideas that the Thornes should taste the bitters of poverty, and know what being impecunious really meant.               — George Manville Fenn I...

As a kid I had a huge fascination with Igloos and every winter without fail I would be out there in the snow trying to make one.  Sadly, my snow shelter attempts never made it very far off the ground.  I blame the fact that I live too far south but I am willing to bet if I'd tried to build one this winter I would have met with a lot more success. Igloos were predominantly constructed by people in Canada's Central Arctic and Greenland's Thule areas.  Some neat things I learned about Igloos include: 1) It's mostly outside the Inuit society that igloo refers exclusively to shelters constructed from blocks of compacted snow. 2) Snow used to build an igloo must be sound enough to cut and stacked in blocks.

Picture I took of one by the lake in Toronto   This post was inspired by a conversation I had with Ace this morning about what he was going to do with the rocks he had in his pocket.  An Inukshuk is a stone landmark built by people, they have a long history in the Inuit culture.    They may have been used as markers for travel routes, navigation, or to mark a food cache.  The most common type of Inukshuk is actually a single stone place in an upright position.  The more familiar person or cross shaped cairns are thought to have developed with the appearance of Europeans explorers in the Artic.    With Vancouver using an Inukshuk as part of their 2010 Olympics Logo they are now pretty much recognized world wide.