Category: From Our Home To Yours

Old School or E-Reader

1/5/2019

I am old school when it comes to books. I like the feel of something tangible in my hand, the swoosh of paper as you turn a page and the smell, oh the smell of the ink melding with the paper. I could go on and on about being able to go to the book shelf to pick one of my favourites volumes to read. It's like having my own private library.

Let's face it, we are not all like me and I have to say, I am open to downloading and reading ebooks. It's a convenience I have come to appreciate when I can't decide which book I want to take on a trip and end up taking several just in case. The weight factor of several paper published books makes for an additional piece of luggage and the ultimate need to still decide which one will be read.

Enter the e-book phenom into my travelling life. I am able to take along ALL of my books if I want and have only to deal with under two pounds of weight and no extra luggage.

Of course, there is a need for some sort of electricity to keep the iPad happy, thus me happy. But in the case of not knowing if I will have a place to charge my 'reader', and yes, that happens, I carry small charging cells that fit easily into my iPad case.

I am not abandoning my books on the shelf. That is not going to happen. I am merely embracing modern technology.

The Quiet Spirits
Moon Rising: An Eclectic Collection of Works
From Our Home To Yours: Cookies
From Our Home To Yours: Cakes & Squares
Birds in my Canadian Back Yard

All of my books are available in e-book format.

How do you read your book, old school or e-reader?

Ann Edall-Robson
Author, Photographer, Lover of Life
"Capturing moments others may never get to experience."

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Self-Sufficient

1/2/2018

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Self-sufficiency is nothing new. Practising it, for some, is.

The issue of not being able to look after yourself comes from a few thoughtless generations. Decades of not handing down a vault of practical, common sense teaching tools. Tools that are available to use for free from parents and grandparents.

These forgetful ones were born into a world of new ideas and technology. Bypassing important learning processes. Creating generations of people that haven't got foggy-clue-one how to do things for themselves.

Looking back, the old ways worked. It may have taken a little longer to get to the end result, but the fail-safe process was just that, fail-safe. Too much, too fast is where our world and lives have taken us.

I consider myself one of the lucky ones that remember how to do things the old-fashioned way when it’s needed. Times when the power goes out or a blizzard makes it impossible to go very far, if at all. Planting a garden and having the where-with-all to preserve its bounty to eat during the non-garden seasons.

We often talk of the old timers and the stories of how they actually survived. They had gardens, hunted for meat and chopped wood to heat their homes.

Communication happened at social events and when letters came in the mail. Ahh, there is still nothing like receiving a handwritten letter.

The world news? It was heard on the radio and read in newspapers. The later sometimes arrived a week or more after being published. Telephones? There were telephones, just not one in every room or household and definitely not in the pocket or purse of every individual.

We think owning material things is important. Through this, we have lost touch with the real things that should be important. It amazes me how many men and women don't know how to cook a meal and bake a cake from scratch. They can't sew a button on a shirt, change a tire or fill their window washer fluid. For that matter, there are a good many people that do not know where their food actually comes from. The correct answer is not a store.

Take some time and take stock of your life. Learn some of the old skills. Pay attention to the stories you hear from and about your grandparents. You will never know how rewarding it is to be able to look after your needs yourself if you don’t take the first step. Try it.

Ann Edall-Robson
Author, Photographer, Lover of Life
"Capturing moments others may never get to experience."

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The Last Minute Book

12/23/2017

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Are any of these people not crossed off of your gift list yet?

Someone who:
- Enjoys cooking
- Enjoys reading (but only on their electronic device)
- Enjoys a little mystery
- Enjoys reading short and poetry

You have no idea what to get them. Why not gift them one of our e-books? Shopping done from the comfort of your home direct to that hard to buy for person in your life.

Click on the book titles to start your gift giving.

Ann Edall-Robson
Author, Photographer, Lover of Life
"Capturing moments others may never get to experience."

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