The following is a guest post by Canadian IT developer Colin Phillips for the September BIG QUESTION series. Thanks Colin! – If you polled folks on the street and asked them “What does America Want?”, in the...
Custom Poetry
Canada Kicks A**!
Someone Else’s Problem
The following is a guest post by Canadian IT developer Colin Phillips for the September BIG QUESTION series. Thanks Colin! – If you polled folks on the street and asked them “What does America Want?”, in the...On Being Underscheduled
Ahhh. Today was one of those most perfect days. I was so happy because my zen-wonderful brother-in-law/sister-in-law and their kids were visiting. They have such a nice way of arriving with their own unplanned, unhurried, not-worried manner....
“Well, at Least She Wasn’t Fat”
Two things inspired me to write this post about fatness today: 1. Seeing myself in a too-small bathing suit the other day (it really was too small… I almost couldn’t get BACK out of...Brought to You by the Letter Z’
#reverb10 is asking: Prompt: New name. Let’s meet again, for the first time. If you could introduce yourself to strangers by another name for just one day, what would it be and why?...My Amazing Husband: The Hole in the House
Happy Thanksgiving. Colin and I are away for a few days (guard cat Betty is home and in charge!), but I wanted to make sure I said my Thanks here for Colin,...Shona’s Run
Super news from my fleet-of-foot Phillips relatives, Greg and niece, Shona, in Kingston … “This morning, after exactly three months of training, Shona ran the Thousand Islands Parkway Half Marathon (21.1 km). I ran beside her as coach...
British Columbia Tour, Part two
I forgot to post the rest of our photos from our trip to Canada, so if anyone is interested, here they are. After we left Jasper, we took the Skeena train (two days) through Prince...
The Company of Songbirds
Something in the new birdseed has songbirds clamoring at the brass cage around my feeder. Wild songbirds– sparrows, chickadees, blackbirds, nuthatches, purple finches, tufted titmice, cardinals– they have come to visit me at my back window....
Roadtrip, Alberta and British Columbia, 2008
Colin and I travel a lot, but usually in fits and starts. The last long, proper holiday we took was to Egypt. This time around Colin took me, along with my parents, on a...
January 2012
Wonderful.
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