A record-breaking heat wave is expected for my part of the world this weekend, which, I digress to say, is nothing like a heat wave in Phoenix where it is too hot for even planes to escape. Still, it’s warm and lovely. The ocean is as blue as the sky, and I spent $7 on…
Category: Random stuff
Puppy dog tales and an online infatuation
Update: Zoe has gone to another. Such is the risk with online love. Gather around the IPad, friends, while I tell you a little story about a dog or two. I didn’t have a dog as a kid and the dog that made the biggest impression did so in a literal kind of way. I…
Tip from a hopeless gardener
For a week in early June our garden is in full flight of voluptuous poppies, stately flag-waving irises and rose buds bursting to burst. The hawthorn trees are shades of fuchsia and Dogwood flowers are soft ivory with tinges of pink and olive. It’s very pretty. A garden that passersby pause to appreciate. Let me…
The almost-as-good-as-it-gets baguette and a question for Madame Macron. The French post.
There’s a sweet little boulangerie in my city, for which I’ll use up $10 in gas in order to buy a $4 baguette that makes those at the grocery store taste like play dough. (For small town British Columbians who, like me, grew up pronouncing the surname Trottier as Trotty-er, a boulangerie is a French…
A day without WIFI and a few minutes on stage
I was going to write about WIFI today. Something along the lines of was there life before WIFI? because ours has been down for the past 24 hours and we’re rattling around all shiftless and lost, trying to remember how we used to spend our time. We used to read more, not just during the…
On mothers before they were mothers
The family story of my parents’ beginnings goes like this: Family: So, Mom, how did you meet Dad? Mom: Through his cousin. She was my friend and introduced me to your dad. Family: Where did you go on your first date? Mom: Camping. Family: Camping?! Mom (patiently): Yes. Family (hesitantly): Did you share a tent?…
Hair spotting
(Note to my Daughters #1) Okay, who among we women hasn’t done this? Saturday morning, you’re sitting with your coffee checking Facebook and email, hand on chin, and you feel it. You flip your Ipad or smart phone to camera selfie mode to locate that rogue hair beneath your chin. Hair spotting is tricky with…
Mirror, Mirror on the Gym Wall
Went to the gym last night. It’d been a while. Years actually. Until three, maybe four, years ago the gym had been routine but then something changed – laziness, I guess – and I stopped, choosing instead to walk, row and lift the odd weight at home in a bid to stave off osteoporosis. I’m…
When I'm 64 