I've recently discovered SteemFollower, a manual curation website where you get upvotes in exchange for upvoting good quality posts. It isn't an upvote for upvote scam, you aren't guaranteed upvotes, but

Motel room art that makes me wish I was in Amsterdam instead of Canada in Winter Steepshot | IPFS | Google Play

And this time I'm in a tiny motel room with a bed...at least there's a bed? 6 hours on the road today, 8 hours of meetings tomorrow, then 2 more hours on the road to a new hotel. The following day, drive

This is my submission into the #freewrite run by the wonderful @mariannewest! You can check out today's prompt here: You sit quietly and stare off into the horizon as the sun passes behind some clouds,

In a previous blog the history of Chimney Rock was discussed, and interestingly enough there is a yearly festival that is held in the springtime at this very location. Like many cultures the spring season

One of the things that I committed to when I started blogging here was that I would always post with care and consideration, and for a while that was exactly what I did. In an effort to post more often,

Photo courtesy: "The stories we tell literally make the world. If you want to change the world, you need to change your story. This truth applies both to individuals and institutions." --Michael

I'm working on a complex relationship chart to explain the interrelationships between my field and another, closely related subfield. What I thought would start out as a very simple and quick task has

Tonight, while playing "Pet Store" with my 4 year-old... "Daddy, I'm going to run the pet store and you be the customer" she said with the enthusiasm only a 4 year-old can muster. But,

When we get a high moisture content in the air that's accompanied by very cold temperatures, we get this beautiful hoarfrost that forms on everything! These are maple keys that hung on too long and never

”Grandpa, tell us about Grator again!” The old carrot looked at their little fleshy faces. The baby carrots clearly enjoyed being frightened by his tales of kitchen terror, and Grandpa obviously liked

A couple weeks ago, I shared a post about the lovely windows at The Bay in downtown Toronto as well as the Eaton Centre across the street. At the time, I promised more of my jaunt around downtown Toronto,

Storytime at The Homestead, lil pinner reading to @prairiepinner Created with Steepshot View in the web app

Fantastic Mammatus Clouds forming in southern Saskatchewan on January 17th, 2018. These were associated with a very narrow band of precipitation along the edge of a high pressure system that kept us from

Our Steemhouse (AKA The Homestead) decked out for halloween 2016 We are hoping to be able to use some of our returns from steemit to fund our purchase and renovation of the house we are renting right now.

So, I decided to look at doing some micro-investing into BTC. I don't have thousands of dollars to invest, but I thought I would try adding a little bit at a time. So, I took advantage of an easy way to

This is a story I wrote for my daughter, images are all licensed under CC0 from various sources Early One evening, Catherine and her dad were wandering through the forest. As they walked along the winding

I just finished reading a wonderful post about Steem and comparing it to other cryptos. @dandesign86 has some very valid points about the stability and long-term potential of the steem blockchain vs. some

When you hear that a certain crypto made a 10x 50x 100x gain it is very tempting to want to move some Steemit funds out to the wild casino that is the crypto market. But let's not forget the pros of powering

The date was August 31, 1854. The people of London were in panic as a new outbreak of cholera had begun. The first 3 days of September garnered 127 deaths and by September 7, 1854, only a quarter of the