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 […]
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. […]
The Hunger Games versus Harry Potter
March 16, 2011 by 9 Comments
I’ve been unwell for the past couple of days; I’ve had the cold that has been going around the kids’ school, and while it isn’t devastating, it is annoying in one of those “I just went through an entire box of Kleenex” sort of way. Yesterday was spent in a cold medication-induced fog, the kind […]
Censorship: Dire Straits, Little House, and Huckleberry Finn
January 13, 2011 by 11 Comments
Did you hear that “Money for Nothing” is now banned on Canadian radio stations? Banned! This is incredibly startling news for me, given that the song originally came out in 1985. So, twenty-six years later, it has been decided that the word “faggot” – when used by derogatory men who are moving the singer’s fantastic […]
Finally Scaredy Squirrel decides that nothing horrible is happening in the unknown today.
October 3, 2010 by 8 Comments
My neighbourhood is, for some reason, a squirrel graveyard these days. I take my dog for a walk and there are squirrel carcasses in varying stages of decomposition everywhere. It is quite disconcerting. Also disconcerting is the fact that dead squirrels are to my dog what giant bags of potato chips are to me: not […]
Randomness: Jeopardy, Miss USA, and Brahmin Widowhood
May 20, 2010 by 6 Comments
During the season, my husband golfs. A lot. Frequently he golfs in the evening, and I take advantage of such time by indulging in such activities as watching seasons 1-4 NYPD Blue on DVD, or Jeopardy, during which I tersely and quickly phrase answers in the form of questions, out loud, naturally. Secretly I prefer […]
