Eileen Schuh

 photo courtesy Dave Brosha Photography ...Photography means 'writing with light'.  English astronomer John Herschel, whose father discovered infrared, coined the term... 

...light moves along at the speed of light (186,282.4 miles per second) only in a vacuum.  In a diamond, it only moves at 77,500 miles per second...

...light has no mass but it does have momentum...

(info from Discover Magazine March 2010 - discovermagazine.com)

Although Katrina, the young genius heroine of my Back Tracker novels primarily works her magic with computers, she is fascinated by physics, especially Quantum Physics.  Read an excerpt at:http://www.eileenschuh.com/back-tracker-series/   

...'Noraebang' means 'Singing Room'.  It is Korean for the very popular private karaeoke rooms rented by the hour in larger centres in South Korea. 

In my novel, when the heroine serenades the villain in a noraebang...

 

    To read an excerpt click on this link:     http://www.eileenschuh.com/noraebang-excerpt/

 

Pictured above are my friends enjoying a noraebang during our South Korean vacation. 

... a cache on the forest floor created by red squirrels to store food for the winter is called a 'midden'?  It looks like a mound of dead leaves and debris at the base of a tree.  It features burrowing holes and sometimes visible stashes of pinecones or other food items.

Thanks to VELMA HUDSON for the photos. 

  For a wonderful article on red squirrels visit:  http://www.donmeredith.ca/article-forest-chickaree.php

...at least 50 of the 4,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke have been proven to cause cancer

...less than 20 per cent of Canadians (aged 15 and over) smoke

...smoking rates in Alberta are slightly higher than in the rest of Canada

...30 percent of smokers start before age 15

...smoking rates in Canada have been going down since 1965

...nicotine is an oily liquid

...in Canada, there are more ex-smokers than than there are smokers

...within 24 hours after quitting, your chance of having a heart attack decreases

...one year after your last cigarette, your risk of a heart attack is cut in half

Visit my blog for the intimate details of my personal battle to quit smoking.  I invite you to leave me a message of support.

http://eileenschuh.blogspot.com

 

...Dildo, Newfoundland is a town in Chapel Arm at the bottom of Trinity Bay.  It was named for the pin on a rowboat in which the oar is attached (also known as a 'thole pin'). 

Newfoundland isn't the only Canadian province with crazy names for towns.  How about 'Livelong' in north western Saskatchewan.  I'm not sure from where its name is derived.

The hero in my 'Back Tracker' series of novels was a Saskatchewan farm boy until life plunged him into the wicked world of biker gangs.  He often misses the peace and simplicity of his prairie childhood.