Canadian lady living close to Toronto, Ontario.My interests are in reading, walking, internet marketing and searching for acts of kindness to publish on my website.   You can also visit me at my blog: A Little Joy For Today http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/poutine Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:41:20 -0600 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.squidoo.com/emilybear Let me introduce you to Emily Bear, a young piano prodigy from Rockford, Illinois. Emily has been playing piano by ear since she was 2 years old. She learned to play without sheet music, but is currently learning to read music with Emillion del Rosario at The Music Institute of Chicago. She is also studying jazz improvisation with Alan Swain. This young talented lady has already played solos at different events. She even played with the famous  jazz musician Ramsey Lewis.  "I have so much music in my heart that it just falls out," said Emily in an interview. LATEST NEWS ABOUT EMILY: December 26, 2007 Emily Bear was just nominated for a 2008 Chicago Music Award for Most Talented Kid under 12 !! Congratulations Emily and Good Luck! music Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:43:26 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/wonderfulfrenchsingers I grew up listening to those wonderful songs that I am introducing to you today. I have quite a extended list of favorite singers and my hope is that you will enjoy listening to them as much as I did, and maybe even more. Those songs are classic and will forever live in my heart. music Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:11:13 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/andrerieu Not long ago I had the pleasure of discovering the famous violonist and conductor Andre Rieu. music Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:14:01 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/greatmenoftoday I would like to introduce you to one of my favorite hero in today's world. He has become a celebrity in the world of global healthcare. His name is Dr. Paul Farmer, a well reknown american physician who has been doing good deeds for decades in the health field. Dr. Farmer is professor of medical anthropology at Harvard Medical  school and is an attending physician at Brigham and Woemn's Hospital of Boston.       people Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:49:31 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/professormuhammadyunus Professor Yunus was born in 1940 in Bangladesh. He came from a large family of 14 children. His parents were well to do and encouraged them to pursue their education. Dr. Yunus was very much influenced by his mom as how to treat poor people. When he was an economy teacher, he started an experiment by lending tiny amounts of money to some village women.  Soon after, he could see that the women were doing very well and he continued to do his work with them. In 1983, he established the Grameen Bank, meaning "village bank". The bank has helped thousands and thousands of extremely poor women from Bangladesh come out of destitution. Grameen Bank now has more than 2,000 branches, and employs more than 20,000 people, and has loaned more than $6 billion since its humble beginning.       philanthropy Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:16:21 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/fredericshopin Let me introduce you to my all time favorite composer: Frederic Chopin. music Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:50:08 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/drhouselife You may know him as Dr.House but Hugh Laurie is much more than this.  Dr.House is also a novelist and a part-time keyboard player for "Band From TV".   moviesandtv Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:29:34 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/drwilliamlarimermellon There are a lot of rich people out in this world that are very selfish, arrogant and totally unaware of the rest of the world. They live in their own little world of opulence and have no regard for the suffering of the humanity. No so with Dr. Mellon. William Larimer Mellon and his wife Gwen were living the good life on their ranch in Arizona when they vistied Dr. Albert Schweitzer in Africa. They were so enthralled by what Dr. Schweitzer was doing that they decided to prepare themselves to devote their life to the health care of poor people.  They went back to school and when they graduated, they decided to open a hospital in Haiti.  The Hospital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti has been serving the local people for over 50 years and is still thriving thanks to groups of concerned fundraisers that help to keep the place working.  health Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:06:03 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/projecthome In this lens, we will pay tribute to some remarkable people who tirelessly help the people who have no place to call home. As the french say "les sans abris". We obviously can not mention everyone of the volunteers but we will try to profile a few in order to give you some incentive to read further on the subject.   USDA Photo by: Dorothea Lange    philanthropy Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:14:15 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/eringruwell When Erin Gruwell began to teach  as a high school English teacher in Long Beach, California, she didn't know what was in store for her. She was given a class of "unteachables"youth with gang rivalry mentality and racism. She finally got through them after months of persistence. The young students finally turned around and it was the beginning of a fascinating journey for all of them. Erin got her students interested in reading and writing. Her students called themselves "The Freedom Writers". All  of them have graduated from high school and have attended college. Erin Gruwell is  a  motivational speaker who brings her  message to students, teachers, and business people around the world. She resides in southern California  What a wonderful success story!   education Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:03:39 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/favoritequotes I have hundreds of quotes neatly listed in my Notepad. It's difficult to choose only a few but I'll try here to put some of my favorites.  Hope you will enjoy them as much as I do and add them to your collection. education Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:59:43 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/soupsanyone You may call it soup,soupe,sopa, or minestra or even suppe, but whatever  language is used, it conveys a warm comforting feeling of being nurtured and satisfied.  In this lens, I would like to present you with a few historical soup companies that are known the world over and a few others less known but equally good.   food Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:06:38 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/my10favoritemovies  The following is my list of top 10. The 10 best movies I recall having seen in my life. I am sure I'm forgetting some. It's difficult to remember all those movies, there are so many of them. But for the moment I'll stick to this list. I hope you have some of them on your own list.  1)  The Big Clock 2)  Rear Window 3)  Trading Places 4)  Dial M for Murder 5)  It's A Wonderful Life 6)  Casablanca 7)  Pay It Forward 8)  The Big Heat 9)  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 10) White Heat moviesandtv Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:35:35 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/mayorlaGuardia One of the most known mayor of New York City was Fiorella LaGuardia. people Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:26:08 -0600