It Happened to Me

Feeling human again

Monday's and yesterday's sleep deprivation-fest ended with a standby flight on the "red-eye" from Calgary to Toronto and an arrival…

21 years ago

Back at last!

At long last, and twenty-four hours later than I intended, I am back from beautiful (and incredibly cold Canmore, Alberta.…

21 years ago

Happy New Year!

Happy 2004! The Redhead, with whom I spent the stroke of midnight in a quiet and dark corner of The…

21 years ago

This is just too cute!

My sister Eileen has no idea where her two-year old son Aidan learned the answer to the question "What comes…

21 years ago

Sometimes it turns around

Richard at Just a Gwai Lo linked to my earlier entry about what makes a date a date and linked…

21 years ago

Suddenly, all those body-cavity searches I’ve been getting at the airport make sense

My two-year-old nephew Aidan is a genius at identifying the various engines and train cars from the television show Thomas…

21 years ago

In love and war, it’s the declaration that counts

On the evening of Christmas Day, after my sister and brother-in-law had taken their kids home and I'd finished helping…

21 years ago

Not likely to be made a made-for-TV holiday special anytime soon

In response to my last posting, a reader asked if I had "some wacky story in the spirit of your…

21 years ago

Convivial!

I attended Gideon Strauss' blogger convivium last night, playing the role of "the ambassador from Accordion City". It was finally…

21 years ago

Last Friday’s Party, part 2

(You might want to look at Last Friday's Party, party 1 first.) MeleeAfter the "No, I was not checking out…

21 years ago