The other day I posted about trying to replace a Christmas ornament, which we had had in the house for 30 years. It was a angel with lights that we put at the top of our tree. Having gone to several stores without any luck, I finally settled for a gold star. Well, wouldn’t you […]
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
I was writing in an earlier post about an encounter in a cemetery the other day. It was a little freaky. It had nothing to do with ghosts and everything to do with an orange parka, go figure 🙂 I was, at that point, going to make an allusion to several characters in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
My Fit Bit is pushing me that extra “bit.” First you have to know that it’s -11º C in Toronto, but I managed to do my 5,500 steps around the cemetery today, albeit bundled to the nines and virtually alone, except for a few stalwart souls, who were braving the cold or who had to
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
I often feel sorry for people who have birthdays on Christmas, because, if you celebrate Christmas, your birthday gets lost in all the hoopla of the day. In fact I have to feel sorry for anyone who has a birthday in December at all. December is one of those “loaded months.” That is, there is
….Charles Schulz. Today, November 26 was Charles Schulz’s birthday. I have always had a fascination with the comic strip, “Peanuts.” Not only does its ironic humour reflect my view of life, the slight sophistication in many of the pieces, sets it apart from most of the other strips. However, although it has this cerebral side,
Some mornings are better than others. The best mornings are Saturday and Sunday, if you work Monday to Friday for someone else, or even yourself. Monday to Friday mornings require discipline, you have to get up and out by a certain time. You have an agenda. This must be done; that must be undone; you
Someone posted to my FB wall another post from Buzzfeed.com. It’s about 13 skills that are fading from our world. The post is entitled 13 skills your grandparents had that you don’t. I know that you have tons of skills that your grandparents didn’t have and you could easily replace these 13 with at least 13,
I must stop this cleaning frenzy I’m in. I swear that as soon as the bucket and cleaning rags come out, the writing muse makes a bee-line for the back door and leaves until the dust settles or is mopped up or something. I did it again yesterday. I decided that the fuzz on the
