Happy Leap Year, everyone! Our last Leap Year was in 2020, and thinking about it now, how strange that time was, having an extra day just ahead of being locked down and going through a global pandemic. When I look at my blog from February 2020, it is all very cheerful and clearly I had […]
That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be
February 26, 2024 by 51 Comments
Many years ago I was in the playground with a friend and our children; she had an older daughter who at the time was in first grade, and so was not at the playground but instead in school. My friend said something to me that has stayed with me for years. Her daughter, she said, […]
People Who Watch People
February 5, 2024 by 61 Comments
The world is such an interesting place, isn’t it? It’s wild that a person can go from this: To this, in only a matter of hours. It has been very grey and foggy this week, but it’s so mild and windless that I don’t mind it at all. Our snow is basically all gone, except […]
Five For Friday: The Your Questions, Answered Edition
March 3, 2023 by 50 Comments
I love how we all have Very Strong Feelings about desserts, and, to a lesser extent, potato chip flavours. I am here for the debate! Next up we will be discussing the use of top sheets. Just kidding! We won’t. I am not wading into that discussion! For the record, I am Team Top Sheet, […]
Celebrate Good Times, Come On!; 106 Weeks In
March 28, 2022 by 39 Comments
Let’s celebrate! It’s all right! Baby! I would like to tell you that I have that song in my head, but no, no. I have had 24K Magic in my head for four days now, but not the whole song. Just ONE line, over and over. Every so often I will burst forth with it: […]
Marital Mismatches and Superpowers; One Hundred and Two Weeks In
February 28, 2022 by 41 Comments
It feels like I was JUST saying that February is tomorrow, and here we are, MARCH is tomorrow! February flew by; part of it was that it felt like Life Was Hectic, with wrestling tournaments and a new school semester and a five-day weekend thrown in for good measure, but part of it was that […]
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 […]
