The Hub is away today visiting his brother in Kitchener so it’s just Lucy and me. Just got back from a long walk with her. I was debating walking down to the waterfront about fifteen minutes’ walk away, and then doing the trail and then walking back, but I decided not to. We did it …
Peace in a Time of Chaos
For the first time in what feels like eons, I have a mostly free weekend. I tell you it makes all the difference in the world to have nothing but one day of an extra-long weekend planned! To top things off, the weather has been phenomenal—yesterday witnessed a shocking 26 degrees and I have a …
Committed
This morning I got up early, for a Saturday morning anyway, and after letting out Lucy and getting her water and food and even before making my customary tea, I promptly sat down in my chair in the living room and immersed myself in the book I’m reading—Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert. It’s quite possibly truthful …
What Happens When I Have the Day Off
My writing muse visits!! This is the beginning of a story that even I find exciting. It’s just a draft, mind, but my heart was pounding while I wrote it; it feels like something big. I think it will be a fairy tale kind of story, in the style of John Connolly’s Book of Lost …
Spring Cleaning
Boy, I was poisonous yesterday in my Self-Help Sucks post. I feel immature about it. But we all have those days and I purposely allowed it because it would make me even crabbier to pretend or be dishonest with myself. Honesty makes me feel good. Yes, I can be immature and whiny and feeling sorry …
Robin Redbreast
Since last week we’ve been hearing cardinals and robins, and right now, one such robin is belting his little heart out outside our living room window in the birch tree. Such a juxtaposition to my recent thoughts! It’s music to my ears. What is making him so happy? I want to know so I can …
Self-Help Sucks
You know that feeling you get when you’re angry with your life and the world? The one that makes you sick of everything, that makes you feel like simultaneously roaring with your entire being and crying with what little is left of your sapped energy? You know that feeling, the one that makes you want …
IJA (Internet Junkies Anonymous) (we meet online)
My life has been made so much easier by the Internet. I can’t even count the ways. The Internet is two-headed, though, and unfortunately it’s made my life a shipwreck of sorts, as well—like any addiction. Not that I’m a victim; I let this happen, as powerless as I’ve felt to fight it. Hi, my …
Yann Martel on Stillness
I posted this on Bella’s Bookshelves but it’s so interesting to me I thought I’d share it here as well. Yann Martel, author of the brilliant novel Life of Pi, has a very interesting and extraordinary project on the go. It’s called What is Stephen Harper Reading? Every two weeks, for as long as Harper …
Had We But Time Enough
Working on Bella’s Bookshelves has made me read more about the publishing world in general. All I read these days are the incredibly copious obits of indie bookshops and the constant proclamations of how ereaders and ebooks are revolutionizing our reading habits and bookselling trends. One of the pros of ereaders, apparently, is that they …