These Pretzels Are Making Me Thirsty I love listening to podcasts while doing menial household drudgery or slowly walking Barkley around the neighbourhood; it makes me actually look forward to doing dull things like folding the laundry or other mind-numbing tasks. I feel like I learn new things every day; I discovered the “We Didn’t […]
Nicole’s Favourite Things: The November Beauties Edition
November 18, 2021 by 28 Comments
I know many people loathe the month of November, but I do not. It’s generally a grey/ brown, chilly, windy month, true, but it has its own kind of beauty: We don’t all have to be flashy to be beautiful. November is also a good month for me because the first three weeks are the […]
And You, Asshole, You’re Lucky To Be Here; Eighty-Seven Weeks In
November 15, 2021 by 30 Comments
Every few weeks for the past couple of months, my husband has been travelling to check on the progress of the enormous renovation of our vacation home, and to meet with all the various contractors and so forth. Last week the boys had two days off of school, and so my older son accompanied him […]
Festivities Shift; Eighty-Five Weeks In
November 1, 2021 by 28 Comments
Hello November!! It was a brisk, wintry start to the weekend, so I wasn’t sure if we would even get any Trick-or-Treaters, but we ended up with an all-time high of 43, smashing our earlier record of 25. Maybe it was the decorations! We do have some candy left over, which some of us are […]
Never Eat Shredded Wheat; Eighty-Three Weeks In
October 18, 2021 by 21 Comments
In my mind, one of the greatest technological advancements is the advent of the map function on my phone. I am a person who has very little sense of direction, and before this incredible feat of technological engineering, I would write down or print out directions to a place, and panic every time I thought […]
Dreams, Jeans, Go(u)rds, Thanksgiving; Eighty-Two Weeks In
October 11, 2021 by 12 Comments
Thanks and Giving Thank you to everyone who reached out with kind words last week. It does make things lighter to know that we aren’t alone. Today is Thanksgiving, for those of you not in Canada, and it is the first Thanksgiving in many years that we are not visiting my mother-in-law, which feels strange. […]
It’s A Conspiracy; Seventy-Seven Weeks In
September 6, 2021 by 18 Comments
I find anything to do with the 1918 influenza pandemic fascinating; in part because it ended, and that gives me hope, and in part because I realize that we also will be a footnote in history. This week I read the book Gilead – more on that later – and came across this passage: I […]
