I’d never heard of the Kentucky Derby until a few years after I moved to Canada. Australia has its own famous four-minute horse race: The Melbourne Cup, which is held the first Tuesday in November each year (and I’m kinda appalled I even know the date – I didn’t have to look it up). Australians […]
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We have this weird thing about numbers in our family. My birthday is February 22, which makes it 22/02 (or 02/22 for you North Americans). Mark has the same birthday as me, so that would be 2-22-02, or 2×22-2. We’re both Pisces, and the symbol is two fish headed in opposite directions. I’m sure Robert
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For the Canucks amongst us, Happy Victoria Day. Enjoy the sunshine (if it’s sunny — not always a given, especially in my neck of the woods) and I hope your long weekend has been fabulous. This is one of those rare years when Canada’s Victoria Day and the US Memorial Day weekend don’t coincide. The
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The original New Amsterdam fort the Dutch built on lower Manhattan island was established in 1625, but the actual city of New Amsterdam was incorporated today, three hundred and sixty years ago. Of course, the name didn’t last too long. The English bopped along in four frigates in 1665 and dubbed the thriving city New
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Dammit, I’m hooked like a wriggling fish. I swore off NCIS if Tony and Ziva didn’t get their act together (literally) at the beginning of Season 10. Yeah, they didn’t. But now it looks like they just might, half-way through the season. Give a woman a teeny glimpse of hope and she’ll last another quarter
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I’m ironically aware that as this post goes live, Australia Day in Australia is all over and done with, thanks to the International Date Line. But it’s Australia Day where I am, so I’m doing the salute, sans the tinny. ‘on yer, mate. ________________________
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Given the turmoil of my personal life right now, what is sitting on my various reading devices shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. Well, some of it might. I’m flipping between titles on Kindle at the moment. The one I’m most dying to sink my teeth into is Drinking With Dead Women Writers by Elaine
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Back in June I blithely announced I was heading off on a writing and blogging vacation. I so appreciated the messages of farewell I received, and they made me feel a bit guilty. Because I was lying. I did take a vacation from writing and blogging, but I wasn’t lazing around on a beach, restoring
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I’ve done a few “I’m back!” posts over the years. This one has a particularly nice taste to it. I thought I was going to lose my site. After running it for ten years plus, I like blogging and putting stuff out there. Then my domain host, who will remain nameless, decided not to notify
One concert photo — especially one without the band members on stage — looks very much like another. Unless you were there. I was there. Twice. On both sides of the world. I’ve been crazy stupid over Pink Floyd and The Wall since it came out in the mid ’80s. (I was one of those
My Life: Roger Waters, Kate, Matthew and Let The Good Times Roll. Read More »