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Life, the Universe and Everything

Green. Yellow. Red.

29 March 2011 Life, the Universe and Everything

No, not a stoplight. No, those are the colours of the three crayons that were in the pocket of his winter coat. When I washed it. And dried it. Along with his only pair of ski pants, and both of his brothers’ only winter coats. And ski pants. I can tell you now with the [...]

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The lady on the corner

18 March 2011 Life, the Universe and Everything

When I pulled up in front of my parents’ house with a carload of kids, she was standing more or less in the middle of the intersection, shifting back and forth in the middle of the road as I pulled the car to the curb and parked the car. She was dressed in a dark [...]

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Survivor Redemption Island

31 January 2011 Life, the Universe and Everything

Did you catch the commercial this week promoting the new season of Survivor? It’s Boston Rob versus Russell! And I guffawed out loud at Jeff Probst’s observation, “I’m gonna need a bigger torch!” Apparently, there’s a new twist to the game in this 22nd iteration: On Survivor: Redemption Island, which premieres Feb. 16 on CBS, [...]

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Would you, could you, eat human cheese?

27 January 2011 Life, the Universe and Everything

You know what’s great about blogging? The network of friends who know me and my bloggy style well enough to send me links to really quirky articles like this one about — are you ready for it? — human cheese. Yes, you read that right. People are taking human milk, mixing it with goat or [...]

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Five reasons I’m looking forward to spring

24 January 2011 5 things

Here in Ottawa, it’s the coldest day of the winter so far, and the mercury has clawed its way up to -24C. But the sun is brilliant, and it’s making me twitchy. Now that the days are starting to get incrementally longer, I can feel summer calling my name. Unfortunately, it’s still a long-distance call! [...]

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Your thoughts on vitamins?

13 January 2011 Life, the Universe and Everything

So here’s the thing. Lately, I’ve been feeling like crap. My head is cob-webby and I’m feeling so dragged out and tired that it’s making me cranky. I’ve been trying to get a little more physical activity in, but I’m also freezing cold all the time lately, which combines with the tiredness to make me [...]

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Name that ringtone!

9 January 2011 Life, the Universe and Everything

I was poking through my blog feeds and found a link to this neat iPhone app that lets you create a ring tone from any song or sound clip. I love this! The ring tone I have now is the old nostalgia ringing phone, which I like well enough. I have never been particularly inspired [...]

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In which the house of her dreams continues to vex her

26 December 2010 Life, the Universe and Everything

We’ve just put the final bit of shiny wrap and silky ribbon on our first Christmas in our new house. It was, by all accounts, a lovely Christmas. Now with the insanity of the season more or less behind us, I thought I’d bring you up to speed on the ongoing saga of the house [...]

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Katie’s story

20 December 2010 Life, the Universe and Everything

A couple of weeks before Beloved and I got married in the summer of 1999, a friend who knew that I was desperate for a dog called me up. “I hear you’re moving from an apartment to a townhouse when you guys get married,” she said. “A friend of mine has a litter of puppies [...]

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Today’s cautionary tale brought to you by the letter F, for furnace. And failure. And f*ck.

3 December 2010 Life, the Universe and Everything

So here’s my nickel’s worth of free advice for you. When your 19 year old (but only two months old to you) furnace starts making odd squeaky noises when it starts up, you should not ignore it. You may wish to ignore it, especially if you are in the midst of a newly identified mould [...]

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