Category Archives: outside

Against All Odds

Despite the following: – I have a cold (so far, not terribly disabling [or surprising, given the time of year and my track record with Christmas Illness]) – it snowed this morning (WTF?) – I needed two items from the … Continue reading

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First Post of the Last Day of November

Marmot, Manning Park, 2005.

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Of Puke and Snow and Hallelujahs

Trombone has thrown up three times in his life. One of those times was sometime last night so this morning when I opened his bedroom door, expecting my usual delightful toddler smell, I was greeted instead with a great whiff … Continue reading

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My Happy Brain Thinks Happy Thoughts

When I was in high school, a girl died. She was in the grade below me and she was coming home from a party, being dropped off at her house late at night. She got out of the car and … Continue reading

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Letter to an Enigma

Dear Translink, First, I want to thank you. About 2 weeks ago, I missed the bus from my son’s daycare (the bus was early and I was on time). Then I missed a different bus going in another direction (I … Continue reading

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