Maybe that should read, “Am I my son’s keeper?” Two night’s ago our youngest sat down to dinner and asked with great annoyance, “How come you guys didn’t tell me Robin Williams had died?” I was stunned. This is a 21 year old who lives on his computer, iPhone, and any other electronic device available. […]
In my blog post yesterday, remembering Robin Williams, I referred to a passage from “Dead Poet’s Society” on the power of poetry. It’s worth repeating – “We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race, and the human race is filled with
I know that I should write today on the passing of a great entertainer, Robin Williams. However, I am almost too sad to write. I can’t believe that we have lost Mrs. Doubtfire, the magnificent English teacher, John Keating, an alien, Mork…the list goes on. At a time when the world needs humour more than
I love stamps. Unfortunately I don’t collect them. I often tear them off envelopes and collect them in another envelope and then manage to lose that envelope. I have had albums before, but I always found them messy, with packets of stamps that had little of anything interesting about them. I do remember that the
My daughter bought me a tea cup “set” for my birthday recently, OK yesterday. The boxed gift was from David’s Teas and it’s just lovely. It also came with a specialty tea called “Midsummer Night’s Dream” – what could be more perfect. If the name sounds magical the ingredients are even more so – apple,
I didn’t post about it at the time, however, I did learn a lot by being away from the city and all its amenities. (I may have learned a lot of these lessons before as a Girl Guide, but I’d forgotten many.) By accident or by design (not mine) I learned that…. 1. You can
It’s an ill wind that blows in cold and rain for July. Sigh! Well, we packed the ponchos that we wore in June for the bike trip. We may have to use them in the kayaks this week. Did I say that we were planning a few days hiking on the Bruce Trail in August,
We are planning to go away for a few days to a cottage near Algonquin Park. My husband is still using up holiday time and this trip will use up four days. I never thought that I would find taking holidays a chore, however, having one a month for the last four months or so
My eldest, who was away the evening we did Sliders Part 1, decided that he would like to try making some. He hadn’t cooked much at home, while he was working in catering and complained regularly that he didn’t have time for his Art. Now that he is supposed to be working at Art full-time,
My husband has always wanted to try the salmon burgers from De La Mer, the fish shop on Bayview. He said to the kids one night, “how about salmon burgers for dinner on Saturday?” Silence, some nose twitching, an indiscernible moan or two. I then suggested that we buy one burger and split it four
