Hello there! It feels like a long time since I’ve posted, so I’m hopping right back in the saddle. Things have been busy around here. I’ve oscillated from overwhelming love for the city and all the generous and kind people in it, and overwhelming despair that it will never be enough, no matter how hard […]
Archives for June 2013
Update on the flood, and what you can do
June 23, 2013 by 4 Comments
I’m sure everyone is well aware now that Calgary has been in a state of emergency due to extensive flooding. Approximately 100,000 people – or one tenth of the city – were evacuated from their homes. Damage is incredible. I am learning that flood insurance is not something that is available in Canada, and so I […]
Reasons I’m Losing My Mind, or How Did Lee Garner Jr Make You Hold His Balls?
June 18, 2013 by 5 Comments
There have been, strangely enough, tornado warnings around here. Tornadoes! Where AM I? In any case, yesterday the rain held off all day until the moment I had to leave to pick the kids up from school. I stood in the playground, in a torrential downpour, while I waited for them. The rain tapered off and the […]
Willie Wonka’s Factory of Near-Death Experiences
June 14, 2013 by 6 Comments
I’ve been having a lovely day, despite of an inauspicious moment this morning when I was getting dressed and wondered what happened to my sweater. I wondered if I had somehow shrunk it, which seemed unlikely since I never put sweaters in the dryer. The usually long, drapey sweater was fitting bizarrely like a crop […]
Denim skirts, non-Mama-Duggar-style
June 10, 2013 by 5 Comments
If you can’t beat them, join them, is the somewhat defeatist attitude I took up this weekend when I went shopping to Lammles’ Western Wear. I am a Calgary girl, I’ve lived here my whole life, and yet I just can’t get behind the concept of western wear. This is an attitude I felt needed […]
Putting on my married lady pants
June 7, 2013 by 6 Comments
Yesterday I had one of those days where I had amazing feats of accomplishments, one after another, except that the accomplishments themselves were so boring that they practically brought tears to my eyes. I wanted to share my amazing level of accomplishments with my husband, and so I started to list off all the things […]
Life Lessons from the Eighties
June 5, 2013 by 24 Comments
Two things happened in the last couple of days that have got me thinking about aging and hairstyles and beauty in general. First, I was at a reunion on Saturday night with people I went to school with for grades 1-10, and the most popular comment of the night was You haven’t changed a bit! This […]
