If it’s a windy night, don’t put out your paper recycling until morning.
Author: Robyn
Earth Hour
I’m not doing Earth Hour. Yes, obviously I’m against climate change. But I think the whole Earth Hour notion is pointless and misguided for a number of reasons. First, it’s
Random rules for living
Everyone and his brother seems to be listifying rules for life these days. So here’s my totally random list of wisdom, at least as it bubbles to the top of
Ah, spring
…or not. That’s a picture of my front garden as it appeared yesterday afternoon. The other day I was going through my photos looking for something else entirely and I
I feel unclean
I was listening to someone’s playlist on last.fm and it caught me off-guard. Hey, I thought, this is pretty good, what is it? Radiohead?! Bleah!
The book
Thursday evening I excavate M’s backpack and pull out two Magic Tree House books which she has chosen to bring home from the school library. Stories! We’ve had week after
On the way home
My colleagues and I settled into our VIA trip yesterday. The snack cart went by, then the conductor came by to collect our tickets, perhaps 30 minutes out of Windsor.
Oh noes! Not teh pot!
Walking
Quotation of the Day for February 25, 2008 “Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned, as though they were three characters
Book a Month Challenge – Heart
The February challenge was to read and review a book about “heart”. I intended to flake out with a fluffy and enjoyable romance but Telling Tales: Living the Effects of
They don’t make it easy
$244 to Vancouver, or $245 to Paris? Well now. Good coffee in both places, but Vancouver baguettes cannot possibly compare…
Don’t Get Too Comfortable
By David Rakoff Don’t Get Too Comfortable is a series of Rakoff’s essays on the simultaneous pleasantness and embarrassing excess of modern American life — as it says on the
They can. They just won’t.
Here are the tracks left by one of the sidewalk snow plows by a park in my neighbourhood. You know, the plows that “won’t fit” on the sidewalks in front
29* things to be happy about
If Mark Morford can come up with 29 things to be happy about, I imagine I can too. Central heating and a non-leaky roof. I’ve spent enough time living in
Book a Month Challenge – Time
(I’m a bit late with this review, but I plead work-related travel.) The January challenge was to read & review a book on the theme of time. I rather randomly
Picture yourself lounging in that chair… mmm…
Picture yourself lounging in that chair… mmm… Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. Or you could remember that no, that chair was last week, and this week there is an office and
Good point
Quotation of the Day for January 5, 2008 “Because it does not take much courage to fight when you still believe you can win. What takes real courage is to
What I wouldn’t give for one of these machines…
On skivvies, skimpiness of
Her Way Sucks, I Prefer His: I discovered accidentally, about 10 years ago, that men feel entitled to wear comfortable underwear that covers their entire ass. The whole thing. Can
Happy Introvert Day
The existing holidays are well and good, but they’re all missing something: time in which everyone else, no matter how beloved and non-intrusive, goes away and leaves one in blessed