Continuing to live — that is, repeat  A habit formed to get necessaries —  Is nearly always losing, or going without.        It varies.  ...

This was totally the colour scheme around here today. The sky overcast and dreary, as it has been every day for the past week, but the g...

Happy birthday, Mom! Something coming in the mail for you today.

"Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscio...

Sometimes people, when they perceive other people as hopeless idealists, invite those people to wake up and join the real world, by which...

I swear the party guests from this "commercial" were on the bus with me this morning. The level of dullness as these three guys ...

WARNING: Multiple spoilers! (I'm assuming that anyone who has any interest in Mad Men has seen the latest episode. Is that such an un...

Nothing's changed much since last week's post, except that the trees have leaves now and the grass is psychedelically alive. It'...

So... my new job is really great. I'm just finishing up week two, and I have to say I love it thoroughly. The office culture is unlik...

Apropos of yesterday's post, here's a song I can't get out of my head lately, in the great tradition of songs wherein people tel...

Still here, still tired. Oh, lord, this week feels like it will never end, what with all the finishing of projects that still has to get don...

But I'm too tired to tell it properly. OK, I'll just come out with it: I have a new job! It's as associate art director for the ...

I have some big news to report, but not quite yet. Soon, soon. Meanwhile, let me tell you about this show The Reference Desk played at Jacob...

Monday morning. I hope everyone had a nice weekend. The vast quantities of work that have to get done around here continue, preventing me fr...

After Black History Month, I'm glad we now get to celebrate the history of pride and suffering that is the Irish identity. It's onl...

The house on Harvard Street that sometimes displays poems handwritten in chalk on a blackboard hanging on its front veranda (see here and h...

Sorry no bloggy blog. Too much worky work. Today I finally felt sort of on top of things, though, so I was able to get outside for awhile a...

Crow carrying twig flies up and down beside me out the bus window. Today was sunny and warm and seemed to be full of magical signs expre...

I'm in Fredericton this weekend, checking out a retrospective of my late aunt Chooch's textile art with some of my family. The show...

Sometimes I am the water. Sometimes I am a sailboat navigating the waves. And sometimes I am a monkey trying desperately not to drown. At...