Life hands us two certainties. The first is that we have made the right decision. The second is that we haven’t. So it came to me as no surprise when Lennie phoned me on Saturday evening saying that he had just rented a car and was going to drive 150 miles to Los Angeles for [...]
There are a variety of definitions for the word ‘charity’. Two of those definitions are: “a generous action” and “something given to someone in need”. Taking these two definitions to heart in their most literal translations this Christmas, I have decided that charity does begin at home, or at least close to home.
I’m not going to [...]
Tomorrow’s the first of December. The temperature is hovering a little above freezing with the precipitation alternating between light drizzle and wet snow. And so it is that today should be the day that I decided to decorate the planters and put up some Christmas lights outside of my building. Nothing like doing electrical work [...]
I went to Limeridge Mall last evening to make a delivery and do a bit of pre-Christmas shopping. When I pulled into a parking spot I noticed the bumper sticker on the vehicle in front of me. It read: ‘LOST YOUR JOB YET – KEEP BUYING FOREIGN’. To me this pretty well summed up our [...]
First of all, if Barbara Walters asked me, “If you were a tree, what kind would you be?” (will she ever live that down?) this is not the tree that I would probably want to be, but it never-the-less is my favorite.
I had never known the proper name for it, but had always used the [...]
In the final months of Eaton’s demise the department store chain adopted a policy that was referred to as the ‘Slow Close’. Needing every sale that could be made they were reluctant to usher out shoppers the minute the store was closed. Instead they would ring off some of the cash registers and lock just one [...]
For those of us that truly love Christmas time, it’s great to be able to listen to Christmas carols whenever we want, still keeping in touch with news, weather, etc. Several years ago a Toronto radio station started playing 24 hour a day Christmas carols from December the 1st through the holidays. The station is [...]
Some people work for a big house, or “stuff”,or for vacations to exotic places. I have realized that I work for extra leisure time.
 As I watch Chaucer and Catya I marvel at the way they enjoy their simple pleasures of life, always living in the moment. To a point they have become my role [...]
Seven years ago today Chaucer, you were born. It seems such a short time ago, and how those seven years have flown by. You have brought joy to me every single day. Happy Birthday Chaucer!
love, Kathryn.
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Another birthday has passed and although weather-wise the day was typically perfect, I can’t help feeling that it should have been today instead.
Some of the most important occasions in my life have been marked with the onset of a thunderstorm; in fact, I was born during one. Today there was an incredible storm that brought half of a chestnut [...]