I have a brand new niece! She was born yesterday and although I haven’t met her yet, her pictures are pretty cute! My mother informed me today that she thinks the baby looks like me, when I was a baby, and I am both flattered and deeply skeptical. I … [Continue reading]
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, or What I Did On My Summer Vacations
July 5, 2010 by 7 Comments
So the other shoe dropped.The weather suddenly turned, the sky grey and the wind chilly, and I felt like perhaps this was my own doing; like I had expressed passionate emotions to an indifferent date; I was like “Let’s spend our lives together, I … [Continue reading]
Happy (almost) Birthday Canada!
July 1, 2010 by 5 Comments
Since in our house, birthdays must always be marked by cake, I am in the process of making an angel food cake with strawberry cream filling, the colours a nod to our lovely, lovely flag. My mother-in-law made this particular cake for me eleven years … [Continue reading]
…and after we trash Bay Street, let’s go to McDonald’s. I’m hungry.
June 28, 2010 by 11 Comments
My husband and I were watching the G20 black-clad anarchist protesters on TV. When the footage showed someone setting a police car on fire and then jumping around on it, he turned to me and said “If one of our kids ever did something like that, I … [Continue reading]
School’s Out For Summer!
June 26, 2010 by 4 Comments
Ooh, I hate that song, along with most Alice Cooper songs – although I do think that Alice Cooper, himself, seems like a very cool guy, as far as celebrities go. While I’m on the topic, I also hate the musical stylings of Tom Petty and that … [Continue reading]
Just to clarify…
June 23, 2010 by 5 Comments
I feel like I should apologize, somewhat, about my kids not tantruming anymore. To be honest, they were never huge tantrumers; they were more like constant negotiators, or sulkers, or providers of long streams of very annoying complaints. It's always … [Continue reading]
Bad Wife!
June 21, 2010 by 5 Comments
I spent much of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday doing a yoga workshop with Kino MacGregor, an amazing woman, and if yoga happens to be your thing, and she is doing a workshop near you, GO. GO TO IT. Even if it happens to coincide with a holiday for your … [Continue reading]
