Last night at dinner I was talking about the list of songs I posted in yesterday’s blog. My husband remembered “Last Train to Clarksville,” because it was a song The Monkees made famous. What ensued was an interesting discussion of manufactured groups in the music industry and groups that came together on their own, such
I did one of those personality tests on FB and failed!! How can you fail a personality test? Does that mean that you have no personality? Here’s what happened. First, I love the colour red. My last two cars have been red, which means that I have been driving a red car for the last
I was reading a blog post the other day on fairies and the belief that they really exist. Ironically it was posted very close to St. Patrick’s Day and we all know the Irish’ obsession with the “little people.” At their worst, fairies exchange children in their cribs at night, thereby leaving a parent to
I was fascinated by this quotation posted by Wordporn. It’s from Plato’s symposium and it may explain a lot of the angst in this world. How often do we feel incomplete? Are we plagued with the sense that there is something missing in our lives? Do we find ourselves searching, reaching out, ever hoping to find
OK, I know that St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. Why, everyone in the world knows that St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. The irony here is, that for all the years that I have endured my sprawling, pugilistic, Irish Catholic family, I have never been invited to walk in the
I went for a three mile walk on Friday. It was -13ºC, but it was brilliantly sunny with no wind. There, I had to qualify my walk or people might think that I’m more than a little insane. Somehow I couldn’t just say that I didn’t mind walking, even though it was bitterly cold. Maybe
….maybe just an empty net and a flukey missed shot. How many times have you succeeded in spite of the odds and how many times have you missed a wide open opportunity? These moments happened in Olympic proportions yesterday to the Canadian woman’s hockey team. Down 2-1 against the US, they pulled their goalie. At
Yesterday it was about -1ºC and the day before it was 0. I walked through the cemetery in the sun, listening to my iPhone. It was bliss!! In fact, I hadn’t listened to all of my music in over a year, because it was on an old MP3 player, which I just never remembered to
The sun was out Dec 24 and our world sparkled. Diamonds now encrusted the tree limbs and shone so brightly they hurt your eyes. I tried to capture some of the magic, but my photography skills are limited and I couldn’t get the brilliance without the dark. Here are a few pictures, however, you will
