Every so often, I do something odd that reminds me of my vestigal New Brunswick habits. Like just now. I walked into the bathroom, emptied my coffee into the sink and rinsed out my mug. Normal people use the kitchen for such activities. When we lived in New Brunswick, we didn’t have a kitchen. We…
Category: apropos of nothing
Wish lists (collectively) are my nemesis
Every year in November, the topic of “Christmas wish lists” comes up around our house. This concept was not something that existed in our family when I was a kid and still feels vaguely foreign to me. Perhaps the idea of giving without expecting anything in return has sunk in too well….. I can see…
Men are odd
Okay, so I googled it. I figured it was just him being lazy, unobservant, out of clean clothes or simply weird. (We’re talking about a man who honestly cannot tell the difference between ironed and unironed shirts, just to give you some context.) I thought that perhaps underwear had the same problem as tube socks…
Days of Nights
As those who know me will attest, I don’t really like winter. Part of it is the sheer ickiness of getting around, because, let’s face it, we get mostly rainy snow or snowy rain. Not much you can do with that besides get wet and cold. Another part of it has to do with the…
November dwindles
We’ve almost reached the end of November, but already it rather feels like December. Strange how that works. I must be simply rolling from Craft Fair and production time right into Christmas without the usual panic to meet additional deadlines that falls temporally between the two. So Katherine and I went Christmas shopping today. We…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 