a peek inside the fishbowl

Cherries are my Happy Fruit, my favourite fruit. Bring me a bowl and I’ll be your friend forever. There were two cherry trees in the backyard where I grew up in a suburb outside of Toronto. I loved them in the springtime, full of blossom and promise. When the cherries were ripe I’d climb up […]

The man from the park office probably thought we were doomed. He certainly recognized us as beginners. I struggled to hoist the canoe down from the top rack and he kindly jumped in to intercept it before it tipped over and landed on my foot. Mark was quietly worried that we hadn’t told anyone where we were […]

One of the things I like to think we did right as parents was to raise a couple of girls who aren’t afraid of picking up toads, frogs, bugs, and other creatures of the woods. I have Mark to thank for that. He’s not afraid. I’ll touch any of the aforementioned but I’m certainly not […]