From there to here, from here to there, Funny things are everywhere
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 … Continue reading “Name that ringtone!”
I‘m delighted to say thank you and welcome to the latest hand-picked supporter of the blog, the National Arts Centre! Please take a moment to admire the little ad in the sidebar to your right. 🙂 If you live in Ottawa, chances are you have been to the NAC. But did you know they’re celebrating … Continue reading “Introducting our newest sponsor: the National Arts Centre!”
My dear darling Lucas, You are TWO today! Two years old! My goodness, was it not just last week that you arrived, late and large, to join our family? (And of course, on the other hand, have you not always been with us? How quiet our lives must have been before we had three boys … Continue reading “A love letter to Lucas, Age 2(!)”
Now that I’m officially done the 365 project, I don’t carry my camera quite so obsessively as I did before. And yet, I still feel the need to take a picture most days, so the subject matter this week is largely skewed to the close at home. That’s why you get pictures like this one … Continue reading “373 – 379 of 1000 pictures”
Did you know that Wednesday January 27 is Family Literacy Day in Canada? From the Web site: Family Literacy Day takes place every year on January 27. ABC CANADA Literacy Foundation and Honda Canada created the day in 1999 to encourage families to read and learn together. […] Literacy is more than books. There are … Continue reading “Five ideas for Family Literacy Day”
Inspired by Andrea, a photo-essay of hourly pictures of the most excitement-laden day of the year: Christmas Eve. First stop, breakfast with cousin Noah at 8:30 am: (Can you believe they were up at FOUR am? Yeesh!) 9:30 am: The gingerbread house is decorated, and accessorized with Belgian chocolate Santa, courtesy of my Loblaws advent … Continue reading “The Christmas Eve Photo Project”
Edited to add: Click this link for the 2018 Santa Claus and holiday parade info! This is an exciting year for Santa Parades in and around Ottawa. For the first time ever, the main Ottawa Help Santa Toy Parade will be held in the evening, and the new route will bring it past Parliament Hill. … Continue reading “The Giant Christmas Parade Post, 2009 edition”
I felt a pang of nostalgic sadness last week when I heard that film director and writer John Hughes had died in Manhatten. His movies were the backdrop and soundtrack to some of my best memories of high school and young adulthood, and his characters felt like people I knew — extensions of the loopy … Continue reading “We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that’s all.*”
Here’s another secret I’ve been keeping from you. (Two secrets in one month. Can you believe it?) I’ve been asked to guest-blog this week over at Canadian Family magazine’s Family Jewels blog. How cool is that? My first post should be up there later today – come on over and say hello! (Edited to add: … Continue reading “Zed-versus-Zee, the first in a series of reruns”
I’m a big fan of the eclectic CBC Radio program Q, arts and culture from a Canadian perspective. I was listening yesterday in the van while running errands, and they had a segment on one regular contributor’s top ten TV shows of all time list. I thought he did a pretty good job. Here’s his … Continue reading “Top 10 TV shows of all time”