Category Archives: humor
Naming right(s)
Finally New Idea has it right. After a year and a half of monthly magazine covers exclusively announcing the royal bump, young Kate is finally with child. Rule bloody Brittania! This is excellent timing for the whole world seems to … Continue reading
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Tagged baby names, family, humor, Kate, Mountbatten-Windsor, names, New Idea, Prince William Duke of Cambridge
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But once a year…
It’s official – I’ve lost my Christmas mojo. This was the weekend to erect the tree and hang the wreath announcing to the world just how damn festive you are with your syncopated fairy lights flashing madly in the window. … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, Christmas, Christmas ornament, Christmas tree, facebook, Holiday, humor, Santa Claus, tinsel, Tree
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Party On Down
So I have been thinking about birthdays, in particular those ones that end in zero. My youngest turns twenty next year which means, given I had a zero birthday the year she was born, that I too will endure celebrate … Continue reading
Posted in Family, humor
Tagged Birthday, birthday party, cake, Child, humor, humour, Parent, sleepover, sweet sixteen, Teenagers, vodka cruisers
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Mind over matter
For the past week my brain has felt like cold spaghetti. I have been having trouble separating thought streams and no matter how anxious or overloaded it becomes I simply cannot clear my chatty mind. My internal dialogue is on … Continue reading
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Tagged chakras, drama class, guided visualisation, humor, humour, meditation, yoga
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Food inglorious food
I don’t know why I thought a vegan lemon curd doughnut was a healthy breakfast option, but I did. It was singularly the most sugary thing I have ever eaten in my life. As I walked away from the shop … Continue reading
The Homecoming
We hovered about the gate lounge waiting for her to appear. I was unaccountably nervous wondering how things would be now, while my ex-husband remarked for the umpteenth time on the arduous nature of travelling from New York to LA … Continue reading
Posted in Family, humor, relationships
Tagged cats, children, Dominican taxi drivers, humour, hurricane sandy, parenting, travel. relationships
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Cruising with George
I ‘m no fan of cruise ships. The Poseidon Adventure, Gilligan’s Island and The Love Boat all seemed to me to be perfectly valid reasons to avoid a floating holiday. Many of the contemporaries of my youth disagreed, however and … Continue reading
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Tagged cruise ships, Europe, George, humour, Life, murano glass beads, travel
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Wrestling with Mediocrity
‘Why don’t you have a go at writing something positive?’ – I was asked this late last week by someone who was posing it less as a question than suggestion. Positive you say? So I’m fairly confident I don’t have … Continue reading
My brilliant career?
What do you want to be when you grow up? I always imagined the answer would appear as a lightning bolt of understanding sometime between finishing high school and death. Still waiting. On the upside I have a list of … Continue reading
The long road to svelte.
My quads hurt. So, for that matter, do my glutes. It is a ritual on PT night for my beloved to dig his prehensile toes right into the muscle and palpate as we slump on the couch. Hurts so good. … Continue reading
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Tagged diet, exercise, fitness, gyms, humour, personal trainers, Tom Cruise
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Learning The Hard Way 