So I set out yesterday to find an angel. I actually prefer it when they come to me. But this doesn’t happen often and it rarely happens on demand, so I had to go out there and find one!! Why? because I happened to have destroyed, an angel that we have had in our house […]
Yesterday, I started to write and it was so dark and grey that I couldn’t get past the first sentence. 1. The sky was grey – the pale grey that designers paint on walls and call it cool. It was cool alright. In fact, it was freezing!! 2. It was raining too. Those lovely white
I was raised in a entrepreneurial family. They were never very successful, but they earned every penny they spent and were never accorded “benefits,” “pensions,” etc. We were lucky our teeth grew in “fairly straight,” because there was no money for cosmetics. We were lucky also that we didn’t require expensive meds, because there wasn’t a
Actually this has nothing to do with the book or going to jail, but it is about an encounter in a cemetery, that was a little peculiar. OK, I have posted before about how my Fit Bit was creating new and interesting situations for me. I often, now, walk at night for a few blocks
Yesterday I posted about embarrassing situations that we all have faced from time to time. One of these is telling the same story over and over again. I mentioned, however, that I never minded telling my Bat Story, ad infinitum. So here it is again. It was in May about thirty years ago. It was
Mental Floss posted on FB a short essay on 6 embarrassing things we do and why we do them. Well, I just had to read the list, which goes like this: 1. Pushing doors marked Pull – Actually both words look very similar and in a rush, who looks to see what the word is
I received my first Christmas card, yesterday, Nov 29. Every year we know that there are a few people, usually the same people, that get their cards out early. We have theories about the card senders at either end. 1. Those who get their cards out by the first week in December, are type A
In winter, very occasionally, we get some very pretty days here in the city. There are lots of pretty days in the country, where it seems to snow more and where the snow lies undisturbed for weeks. In the city, however, there are few vast expanses of snow. Roads must be cleared. People must get
The line from Mary Poppins was, “Feed the birds and what do you get? Fat Birds.” Well maybe not. Maybe you get a lot of information that is important to the planet, which you can share with others. Plus you can watch every feeder that has installed a webcam. I am describing briefly an article
November can be a really down month. There’s no real celebration, in Canada anyway, to create a focus. The US has Thanksgiving, however, we had ours in October, which also has Hallowe’en. For a long time November’s only focus was Remembrance Day – not exactly an up day!! Then along came some clever marketers!!! Hurray! what
