This story is funny at first. Then it just gets creepy.
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Watch my life unravel...
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It was cool to be a hippie in the sixties, and even cooler to raise your kids like little hippies. I understand the appeal, truly I do. But this is 2006, and at some point don’t you start to wonder if you’re living in the past with your tie-dye short set and your son with […] The folk festival was last weekend and while I spent the whole weekend there, I never got around to posting anything about it, so now I’m just playing a bit of catch-up. Folks: Children dancing in the rain by the ice cream cart: Spongebob Squarepants: Here’s the Maple Leaf Brass Band – just as enjoyable as when I saw […] I’ve been floating around all day in a bit of a haze because this was no ordinary day: this was the day that I became a long-overdue full-fledged adult. This was the day I bought my first washer and dryer and fridge and stove. This was the day I purchased hardwood floors and a roof […] It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don’t. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. I woke up in a weird mood this morning – […] Home is more than a dwelling…if you’re lucky, it’s also a neighbourhood. I’ve lived in a lot of neighbourhoods over the years, but I’ve never felt the same sense of community that I do now. And I didn’t always feel it here, but I do now. I love my neighbourhood. I love the densely populated, […] My old friend Smabulator sent me a link to a review of Canada, by Jeremy Clarkson, a UK columnist who usually writes about cars, but who recently vacationed in the Ottawa area. Here’s an excerpt: “We’re told that no one in Canada is ever robbed, butchered, stabbed, murdered or blown up by a doctor. And I […] I wrote this last week, but am only posting it today because I was waiting for permission from Meph to quote his email message. Today I had the pleasure of sharing lunch with Roy at the Lord Elgin Hotel. (Excellent restaurant, I recommend it highly.) Roy has packed a lot of life into his 84 […] My friend Cynthia and her 25-month-old son Matéo came to visit. Matéo just started to talk last month and now he speaks English, French, sign language and a little bit of Spanish. Cynthia and I were saying how wonderful it would be if we too could suddenly acquire whole new capabilities. We could phone each […] |
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