From a pair of true Canadian icons comes today’s dose of smartness. Then there’s the considerate hunk on the right hand side of this page. I don’t mind at all that he calls me ‘girl’ and not ‘woman’, either. Cocktails. Ummm. While knitting. Even better. A warm, slow neck rub would make for a trifecta of sensual enjoyment. I wonder if he enjoys ironing?
Tagged: Bob & Doug, Canadian
A happy way to end the year and to begin preparing for 2013. It may sound trite, but in these often terrible times when unspeakable acts are perpetrated – seemingly every day – it may help us get through them if we can focus on what is most important. The things that bring us joy – a hug, a smile, friends, a great read, loving family, a delicious meal shared with good friends, catching snowflakes on your tongue. The ways in which small kindnesses that we commit bring peace or happiness or solace to others. We need to focus, go inward, to uncover the myriad of little events that enrich our lives and warm our hearts. Then, once we’ve unearthed some vestige of serenity,…
Tagged: 1000 Awesome Things, awesome, happy, libraries, life, Ontario Library Association
I’ve been reading the posts on this website – The Book Designer – which contains a wealth of really useful information. I also appreciate that the blogger – Joel Friedlander – doesn’t make me go through hoops to find the articles he’s posted. Best of all, it isn’t one of those spammy sites that promises big, uses large fonts and blobs of bright colours, then makes you enter a user name or email address and password to get the material they claim is ‘free’. I hate that. People, listen up – I will spend 20 minutes searching for the download osmewhere else, because I don’t like to be held hostage like that. One of the fonts I downloaded came with this licence agreement. I…
Tagged: creativity, fonts, free
I’ve been trying to write. So many projects almost done…but I just couldn’t jump into crafting stories about made-up people when the stories on the news all weekend were so mind-numbingly awful. There was no escape, even though I stopped watching television or listening to anything but music radio and Christmas CDs, because everyone, everywhere is stunned by the slaughter of 27 innocents in Connecticut. 9/11 I still remember as if it were yesterday – I’d been out for a morning bike ride on what I’d thought was a normal sunny early autumn day. Just as I got home, my girlfriend called to tell me to turn on the television. I stood there in my helmet and cycling gear, gob-smacked that this was actually…
I was going to write something frothy and light today. About the mouse that scooted out from under the footrest I rest my tootsies on when I’m using my CPU and 32″ screen at my desk. About the weather, which is unseasonably warm for ten days before Christmas. The strange experience I’m having with Canada Revenue Agency because Scotiabank gave me the wrong payee for my tax installments, and four payments went by mistake to Revenue Quebec, which doesn’t want to talk to me (in either official language) and seems desirous of keeping my hard-earned cash as long as they can becasue it might take six weeks for the money to be rapatriated to my bank account. But as I was getting ready to…
