I’m a pasta hound. I don’t easily get bored of repetitious food, and I could probably happily eat pasta 5 days a week. But last night I had a hankering for pasta redux. I just wanted spirals cooked al dente, with a dollop of crème fraîche, a touch of salt and pepper, and maybe (just maybe) a…
I don’t have an eBook reader, mainly because I don’t buy enough new books to justify the cost. But when I checked back to the Toronto Public Library recently, lo and behold they’ve instituted an eLibrary. Which makes me absolutely chuffed. I live exactly 14,242 kilometres away from Toronto, and yet my resident status allows…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1RKr4pWOqs I don’t know about you, but occasionally a song will just hit me, and I’ll listen to it non-stop for hours – and I mean, HOURS – on end. I’ll only stop when I can feel myself get sick of it, but until then I inundate myself in the music. My most recent one…
I don’t do adrenaline. I don’t ski, bungy-jump, or ride roller-coasters. I most certainly do not hunt. Instead, I do used bookstores. I know, I know. They’re about as similar as monkeys and beans, and yet that is probably the closest I get to deliberately seeking out excitement. Allow me to explain. I’m a bookstore…
I’m not much of a photographer, probably because I don’t have the patience. This extends to my computer desktop wallpaper, which is changed two or three times a week. I sometimes use pictures from my own travels and community, but more often draw them from a collection of landscape and nature photos I regularly visit.
I went away on holiday this week, and had a fabulous time. Did some tramping, did some shopping, ate mussels, and even got some review reading in. That’s all good. But what made my holiday great were the people I met; specifically, at the B&Bs where I stayed.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yj38VPXl1w I also wish I were this cute. I can dream though. – Jean Wan
This weekend I took part in a duathlon. That’s the self-congratulatory part. But I didn’t do the whole thing. That’s the other part. So what happened was this: A colleague had signed up to do it with a friend, with the friend biking 10km and my colleague doing the 5km walk. …
The subject of national pride has been on my mind of late. There is the obvious, which concerns the Olympics and the overwhelming, all-consuming, fountain-spouting, arms-waving ecstasy at Canada’s double hockey gold medals. There’s a lot of Canadian pride out there at the moment, despite a government proposal to politically correct a line in our…
One of my favourite guilty pleasures is a set of gentle romances from the 60s and 70s by Iris Bromige. Her heroines are gentle, firm and optimistic, her heroes are domineering and loving, and the couples never really fall in love – they just grow to love. One thing they always seem to do is…
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