The Most Wonderful Time
The only good thing about November is that it is immediately followed by December, which I think perhaps is one of my favourite months of the year. I love the winter, and the snow, and the cold. It affords such quiet, introspective time, and finding interesting ways to keep your [...]
Plucky
That's my word for the week. I like it. I want to use it to describe myself, but I think that's one of those words best left to others to use. It always makes me thing of those busty, lipstick-wearing sexy chickens that used to roll with Gonzo from the [...]
The Chapped Nose Blues
It turns out that gin is NOT a good remedy for the common cold. Neither is parading about in your unmentionables for two hours in what used to be a baptist church. That's how I spent my Sunday, with the guys and dolls, doing our thing for the [...]
Girl, Interrupted
It's gray, and slushy, and snowy, and sleety, and I don't have to leave this place today, so I'm feeling very grateful. I also feel exactly like the weather. I woke this morning with a stuffy nose, and a sore throat, and a show in four days. So I find [...]
In the hall of the Gnome King
Yesterday we bought a Christmas tree, set it up in our living room, went to a pot luck at the girls' school, and then decorated the tree with all of the decorations we've made. I'm a PTA mom. I have children to enjoy the holidays with. I have [...]
Sometimes I Wonder How to Be Me
I am sitting by the wall of window that is my new living room, and watching the sun sink slowly below the tops of the skyscrapers. I feel like me again. Mostly. I wonder if it is because it is no longer November? I'm waiting for the family [...]