January 6, 2014
Looking back at those curly-edged black and white photos pasted in my family albums, I note that I was thin until I hit my thirties. Until I hit my teens and discovered the glory of after-school french...
View ArticleMarch 29, 2014
March 29th is my baby boy’s birthday. He’s 42. So much life has happened since then. Good, bad, ugly, beautiful. Yet, I can still recall with razor clarity that he was born at 12:40 p.m. (because I was...
View ArticleShort bits – night
The vast silent weight of limitless darkening clouds weighed on my ears; the throbbing spume of sunset sliced the undulant Andaman sea, piercing my eyes, tugging the freshly corrugated golden sugar...
View ArticleScream & Weep
This morning’s newspaper (thin, thin, thin) had an article on why young women concert-goers scream.That phenomenon goes back to the days of Elvis and the Ed Sullivan show, where the cameras would pan...
View ArticleRemembering Summer (1 week in July)
Today dawned grey, muggy and totally uninspiring. It’s a week before summer officially ends – what happened? Sure the lawns are lush and the weeds thick, but we haven’t had many romps – who wants wet...
View ArticleMemories of Dubai, UAE
Today – Saturday – we turned the furnace control to ‘on’. And it did, indeed, blast on. Rain is slashing against the windows (guess I can’t clean the outsides). The trees are being blown so heavily...
View ArticleWinter tires & origami thanks
I’ve been getting my car ready for winter this week – an oil and filter change and lubrication on Wednesday and this morning, swapping out my all season tires for winter tires. Last year, when I got...
View ArticleGifting, Memories & Old Wives
At this time of year, when the pace of our days becomes more hectic and there are multiple people and tasks clamouring for our attention, it doesn’t hurt to take a few minutes and think about the...
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