Canada’s Wonderland has always been a really special place for me. I remember how each summer passed I grew slightly taller and was able to ride on one more ride. I had to stand up against the height measurements by each roller coaster (yes, I totally pulled the tippy toe trick on more [...]
Before you start singing the lyrics to the Dears song “Expect the Worse Cos She’s a Tourist,” let me explain something…Canada has always been sort of a home away from home for me. I grew up very close by and visited Toronto and Ottawa several times a year (Kingston as well a few times) [...]
I’m leaving soon to spend some time with my family and camp and stuff. I’ll be gone for about a week. Until then, I am going to leave you with pictures for a project I have been working on the last week or so…book reviews are below. The summer is ending, alas.
Forgive the [...]
I know…I know….some of these books I read about two months ago…and then when it came to blog, I just became wrapped up in other things.
Astonishing Spashes of Colour
by Clare Morrall
I remember putting this book on a list of books I wanted to read soon after I found out it was a finalist for [...]I’ve had a few days to think about this one since finishing it. Surprisingly, the book I picked to read afterwards (HouseKeeping, which is below this) had some similarities in terms of a reflective sort of tone. The subject matter, plot, and themes, are very different, however. Eugenides creates the story of [...]
The basic jist of this book is that two sisters living in the small town of Fingerbone in the Far West have become accostomed to loss as almost a routine. Coping with deaths is just a fact of their lives. Their lives are more full of ghosts than the living. It’s a [...]
Last night, I had a dream that I was in Toronto in a Shopper’s Drug Mart looking at Canadian chocolate (I miss Coffee Crisp the most) and they were playing Françoise Hardy and then Serge Gainsbourg and I was dancing around in the aisle. I felt like the lights and the floor tiles and [...]
Eels lyrics from “I Like Birds”
I can’t look at the rocket launch
The trophy wives of the astronauts
And I won’t listen to their words
‘Cause I like
Birds
I was driving today and lo and behold but what did I see? Birds! I really wish I could make this picture larger to capture the insane amount of [...]
(now playing: The Go Betweens: Oceans Apart)
Here’s what happens to me often…something occurs and it kind of bothers me but I try to let it go or I get distracted or I just plain forget about it…but there it is just lurking. After Cinchel and I went to the art gallery over a week ago, we went to Cozi Noodles [...]