a peek inside the fishbowl

Thanksgiving is a little different now that one of our chicks has flown the coop. She started her second year at Queen’s in September and took the bus home. Mark and I picked her up at the bus station on Friday and drove her home on Monday night, which made for a short visit that […]

Thanks to poor planning on my part, I found myself doing a big grocery shop twice in one week. Seeing as though Thanksgiving was only a few days away I wasn’t exactly thrilled to be part of the pre-holiday grocery craziness. List in hand, I went up and down and back and forth between the […]

Back in May, when the Kitchissippi Times changed to a monthly community news magazine format, I was asked to write a letter from the editor in each issue. I scoffed at the idea a bit at first. I mean really, do MORE people really need be exposed to my random thoughts? As it turns out, […]

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 […]