Maya Muses: A new Canadian law, the April 17 amendment to Canada’s Citizenship Act, was passed and now there are several hundred thousand people around the world who may have gone to bed Thursday night as a citizen of some other country only to have awoken as a Canadian citizen and not even know it! […]
Entries from April 2009
Did You Wake Up Canadian And Not Know It?
April 18th, 2009 · By Lynn
Tags: In The News · Is Anyone Listening? · Political Parlance
French Elle - Au Naturel
April 16th, 2009 · By Lynn
Eight European stars are featured in this month’s issue of French Elle! I think it’s a wonderful idea of finally showing women without makeup, and more importantly, without any retouching, airbrushing, or photoshopping done to their photos! No, I’m not talking about photographs circulated by the paparazzi when a star is caught in the most unflattering […]
Tags: Books and Reviews · Entertainment · Fashion · Mayaland · Paris - Paname
Millvina Dean Last Titanic Survivor
April 15th, 2009 · By Lynn
97 years ago today, on April 15, 1912, the Titanic struck an iceberg and the rest is history! For 97 year-old Millvina Dean, she, too, was in the midst of all the chaos that happened that fateful night. Millvina has no recollection of the events that took place for the simple reason, she was only 9 […]
Tags: Books and Reviews · In The News · Miscellaneous
Justice Finally Served In The Phil Spector Trial!
April 15th, 2009 · By Lynn
If you know anything about the first trial against the rock music producer, Phil Spector, for the murder of Lana Clarkson, then you know that the trial lasted from April until September 2007 and ended in a hung jury. After five months of testimony and forensic evidence being battled upon, the jury announced that they […]
Tags: In The News · Music Muses
New Meaning To The Polar Bear Club!
April 14th, 2009 · By Lynn
A crazy woman jumps into a polar bear enclosure at the Berlin Zoo and is bitten by one of the bears as zoo keepers frantically try and pull the woman out! It’s not like she accidentally slipped and fell in; the woman had to climb over two barriers in order to jump! She’s lucky that the bears […]
Tags: Entertainment · In The News · Miscellaneous
An Invitation To Be Creative
April 13th, 2009 · By Lynn
If you’re like me, then you have friends that are so crafty and original in everything they do that you wonder, Now why didn’t I think of that? They always have a new and interesting way of sending cards, invitations, or announcements that when you receive one of them, you just automatically know who it’s […]
Tags: Fashion · If....Then.... · Miscellaneous · Shopping
Happy Easter!
April 12th, 2009 · By Lynn
Maya Muses: To everyone celebrating Easter around the world - Happy Easter!, Joyeuses Pâques!, ¡Felices Pascuas!, Buona Pasqua!, and Feliz Páscoa!!!
(I love the Latin languages, when you know one or two, you can very easily understand the others! At least that’s how it’s been for me! Hmm,…. unless I’m having a conversation with several people in several […]
Tags: Miscellaneous · Uncategorized
Bunny Laugh!
April 11th, 2009 · By Lynn
Maya Muses: If you want a good laugh about chocolate Easter bunnies, click on the link to Meredith’s blog! LOL!!!
Photo Credit: Flickr
Tags: HaHaHa!
Yes! French Women Do Get Fat!
April 10th, 2009 · By Lynn
Maya Muses: Billy over at Billy’s Lines of Gibberish wrote an interesting piece about why French people manage to stay thin despite all the rich food they eat and it reminded me of an article I wrote two years ago when everyone was talking about the book, French Women Don’t Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano, so I decided […]
Tags: Books and Reviews · Food and Wine · Paris - Paname · Travel
Happy Birthday To Me!
April 9th, 2009 · By Lynn
Or perhaps I should say, Happy Birthday to my blog! It’s been one year since I’ve started this blog and what I wrote on my first post still holds true one year later:
According to many theologians and quantum physicists, our Universe is just an illusion! So I ask myself, why do I keep banging my […]
Tags: Miscellaneous · Special Moments








