I was reading an article the other day in the newspaper by some one who had visited the site www.livingto100.com. Apparently, you can key in certain family or lifestyle characteristics and the site will estimate how long you have to live – just the cheeriest place on earth 🙂 Anyway, I have chosen not to […]
….bring your pipes o’er all the earth….well, maybe just to our house. Last night we enacted one of Murphy’s laws – “If anything is going to go wrong, it will go wrong at the worst possible time!! And so sometime about 1:00am the waste pipe from the bathroom sink just disintegrated!!! We can now look
I didn’t write about the solstice yesterday because I wasn’t sure that it was going to actually “be.” However now that it “is,” I can. Does that make sense? I just finished reading a blog by a woman who lives in BC and celebrates the solstice by making a maze out of cedar boughs, coring
As doomsday approaches, I picked up my copy of “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and realized that this was not a great choice for recreational reading, given that in chapter three the world ends!! Then again, its Monty Pythonesque humour is uplifting!! So I carry on ignoring the Mayans, a little difficult to do since
I have a love hate relationship with postmen. For the most part I love them. The one that brings our mail to the house is a gem. He waves to you on the street; he smiles and he delivers the mail!! Now letter sorters are a different breed. We often get mis-directed mail. I wonder
I am in avoidance mode. I know I need to start refining and polishing “the novel.” This is where the discipline comes in and I have always been a slacker. Fortunately NaNoWriMo has lots of lists and mentors and tons of other help to give you guidance and impetus. The problem is, you have to
Today is a repost from another Remembrance Day… Remembrance Day is the one day of the year that I read “In Flanders Fields.” It is all about being connected, about paying back in some small, more like infinitesimal way, the great debt that we owe to those who did not make it back from the
Yesterday it rained – all day and today it’s still raining and it is forecast to rain until Thursday. Well yesterday I moped around until about 3:00pm because I couldn’t get out – I know I could, but I would get wet and I’m a whimp!! Finally, I decided that I really had to make
……and back again. The “radical” in yesterday may have been a dinner conversation with our 19-year- old. It started like this. Nick (19-year-old), “Serge (a friend) said that there were more moves in Chess than there were electrons on Earth.” Parents, “Really (in unison).” Nick, “Also did you know that if you took all the
……..blowing. I have been reading books about journeys. I have been talking about journeys. My husband last night said that there was a walking trail along the Amalfi coast – another journey to add to my list. I get “antsy” when the seasons change. I usually turn this energy into much needed cleaning power and
