by Sharani | Dec 20, 2008 | Acts of Kindness Day, Bloggers Unite, generosity, kindness
Last year this time, I was in the midst of nine days of activities starting on the Acts of Kindness Day at Bloggers Unite on December 17th, 2007 and continuing until Christmas day. Bloggers Unite is a group within BlogCatalog that seeks to harness the tool of blogging...
by Sharani | Dec 9, 2008 | favorite movies, Jodha Akbar, Jodhaa Akbar, Moghul Emperors, Sri Chinmoy
While discussing how much I liked the Korean TV mini-series Dae Jang Geum with some of my friends, they answered with a recommendation to watch Jodhaa Akbar – a Hindi film about the Muslim Emperor Akbar and his marriage to a Hindu princess during his reign in...
by Sharani | Sep 22, 2008 | favorite musicians, happiness, hope
Hope is a dress that my mother once wore A fiddle tune I heard that has no words Hope is the one thing we have never lost… -Susan McKeown River (song lyrics excerpt). River by Irish-born Celtic musician Susan McKeown is a real favorite in my music library. While...
by Sharani | Sep 7, 2008 | Heidelberg, travel
If Kennedy is a Berliner, Ich bin ein Heidelberger. If you have never been to Heidelberg, you are missing a great travel destination. For this American tourist, it offers quintessential historic and beautiful scenery in the Old Town with a fairytale European flavor...
by Sharani | Jul 20, 2008 | Library Website, WordPress as CMS
When the public library I work for in Dartmouth, MA wanted a web site redesign, we decided to try using WordPress for the entire site – not just for blogging. The intention is to have something created in open source software that can be fairly easily taught to...
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