The upside to having moved is that I am no longer living in a motel. Yes, I was doing that for roughly two and a half months as I looked for a home. But I found one and I moved in yesterday.
The downside? The downside is I have the worst flu/cold I’ve had in ages. […]
We’re approaching mid-January and I have yet to experience what is generally known as, in these northern climes called Canada, Winter.
I may regret having written that. I admit it: I’m superstitious and by writing and publishing the sentence above, I may have called down the chilly wrath of the icy gods upon me. Still, it […]
I saw it has been a while since I had posted something new so I’m dropping in this aside merely as a way to say I’m still here.
Actually, I’ve been working on revamping my other site, Piddleville, while also enjoy the holidays (which included Christmas in Moncton, New Brunswick … about 160 km down the […]
In an article called, “Sarah Slean attends the school of life,” there is a pretty good explanation of why I moved from the west to the east (when everyone else is going east to west):
“It never ever goes away,” Slean says of that sense of wonderment. “People just sort of tune it out. I think […]
There’s an excellent piece on the CBC site by Richard Handler called ‘Humans and the dance of expectations.’ It’s an opinion column based on the work of U.S. psychologist Jerome Kagan, who has studied children for some 60 years.
His studies have led to some conclusions about us, human beings, which Handler sums up with, ” […]
I can post this because I’m in a coffee shop in downtown Fredericton making use of the free wireless connection, Fred-eZone. (Except today I took a cab downtown instead of walking. See yesterday’s muddled post.)
I haven’t figured out what the problem is with the connection I had a few days ago from the motel. There […]
The following is actually made up of two posts from one of my other blogs. Why rewrite what’s already been written? Here it is:
At the risk of seeming a little too self-involved, I’m using one of my favourite photos of me (used before) because this is rather a neat little post, in my view.
I resigned […]