Few things, I find, are more offensive and soul-destroying than trying to find parking in the busy Costco lot and then finding some spots, only to discover at the last minute that there are several giant carts stranded in the vacant parking spots, the vacant parking spots that are mere steps from the parking lot cart […]
Archives for 2011
The grasshoppers are going to eat all the wheat!
September 7, 2011 by 12 Comments
Did you read the Little House on the Prairie books? I was delighted by them as a child. As a child I could just imagine the sheer joy of finding an orange, a stick of candy, a tiny homemade cake – made with WHITE SUGAR – and a penny in my stocking at Christmas. I […]
Don’t it make my brown eyes bluuuuueeee.
September 4, 2011 by 11 Comments
So I’ve been blue, due to a number of factors, the most pressing being disappointment over not being offered a writing contract that I had my heart set on. I’ve been in mourning about it, wallowing and eating all manner of bad things, and reading my most favourite comfort book, Diary of a Provincial Lady. […]
Pretty Girls
September 1, 2011 by 9 Comments
I turned the furnace on today; it’s been chilly and pouring rain -it even snowed in the mountains – and seems fitting, somehow, for the end of summer vacation. Frankly, it’s a bit depressing. But not as depressing as this: This t-shirt was for sale at JC Penney – was, but not anymore. Someone at […]
Where will we be when the summer’s gone?
August 29, 2011 by 10 Comments
Have I mentioned that it has been – wait for it – unseasonably hot around here? Honestly, it’s beautiful, and every day I have a sneaking feeling that I have been transported to a different city without my knowledge. Today it was – wait for it – thirty degrees Celcius which is both highly abnormal […]
T minus 7
August 26, 2011 by 8 Comments
My husband has been away on a golf trip and yesterday I did something I haven’t done since my single-girl days: I had popcorn for dinner. I announced it to the kids that we were going to have pancakes and popcorn for dinner, and that announcement was met with silent, nervous smiles. “Do you mean, we’re […]
The magic is GONE
August 23, 2011 by 9 Comments
I realize it was only a few short days ago when I was waxing melancholic about the end of summer, and how much I was going to miss the boys, and while that is still true in theory, the reality is that suddenly the children seem ready to go back to school. Suddenly I am […]
