a peek inside the fishbowl

Ah, my Fishies. We’re home from our annual camping trip and I’ve hardly begun to recover from this one. I’ve got a LOT of stuff to share and I’m busy editing photos and collecting my thoughts. In the meantime, here’s Piper, giving our tent a big snifferoo: I know exactly what smell has caught her […]

I’ve been thinking a lot about collections and the act of collecting. It’s such a personal thing, isn’t it? One person’s collection is another person’s garbage pile or bad dream. (Imagine, for example, inheriting a clown collection!) I went to an estate sale down the street the other day. This was only the second time […]

… and by ENTERTAINER, I don’t mean that you’re a juggler or a circus performer, or the kind of person who’ll suddenly lean over and pull a quarter out of someone’s ear. What I mean is, do you like to entertain? If you had to rate your love of entertaining on a scale of 0-10, […]

How was your Canada Day? Ours was low-key, to say the least. We spent the afternoon lounging around my inlaws swimming pool and trying to stay hydrated. By the time the evening rolled around and we were home again we were too hot and tired to eat the BBQ dinner I had planned. The heat […]

… well, it’s not really the first day of summer holidays. Yesterday was the last day of school for many of my friends with younger kids but the eldest has been home from university for some time now and the youngest had her last exam of grade 11 last week. For a few years, I […]