01 juil 2011
Remember those slow roast days. Frying an egg on the pavement kind of day.
First the gentle sun ray, the warm caress. The intensity mounting.
Too much, too fast, the sweats,...
08 juin 2011
We are finally in the midst of full-blown summer weather and Canadian gardeners are smiling from coast to coast. That is until they see one of these deceptively harmless red...
08 juin 2011
I can’t remember exactly when it was when my babes started to realize that there was a wide wonderful world outside the cocoon their mama and papa had created for them, but what I...
02 juin 2011
A beach. A riverbed. A desert. An ocean floor.
Sand, sand and more sand. Those tiny gritty eroded rocks. Those small loose granular grains that can do absolute wonders for our...
29 mai 2011
I was in my local pharmacy recently (buying band aids, which we go through like there’s no tomorrow with two toddlers around), and out of curiosity’s sake, I decided to go to the...
17 mai 2011
This post was actually inspired by The Trust And the Truth that Martha wrote a while back. Other than being a great piece of writing, it brought to my attention how many...
13 mai 2011
I am currently reading Slow Death by Rubber Duck, a great Canadian-written non-fiction book about the toxins present in the food we eat and products we use in everyday day. I also...
10 mai 2011
Kids learn quickly.
Your child now knows that the sugary pink yogurt advertised on TV is poison for him. He now knows that the bright green sugar-coated cookie he used to eat may...
09 mai 2011
My Bordie Collie/Lab mix is named Tuxedo. Makes sense since he wears black and white. Tuxedo is in love with his near mirror image, Pepé Le Pew, the famous cartoon skunk...
19 mar 2011
I remember meeting a customer from Somalia. This young man came to Alberta, Canada ( where it is especially dry) three years ago and experienced quite a shock to his skin. It...
