Here are a few things you can do to celebrate my birthday today!
The Fabric Flea Market – at the Glebe Community Centre from 10:00 to 2:00. All proceeds go to Cambridge Public School. Admission $2. Lots of bargains on fabric, yarn, patterns, buttons and other needlework supplies.
Grand opening of the Daily Grind Art […]
Continue readingI’ve known Jack (not his real name) a long time. We were room-mates when I was still in high school and he was in university. He was never a shining example of robust mental health, but he always maintained at least a half-hearted grip on his sanity, despite his contention that sanity was over-rated.
I used […]
Continue readingThe art-making party for Elmaks was wonderful and fitting, and the service the next day was lovely.
I don’t usually say funerals are lovely, but this one was. His art decorated the room, and several pieces from the art-making party the night before were there too. (Not mine. I’m still working on mine.)
There was […]
Continue readingIf you would like to pay your respects to Maks at either or both of the following events, you are very welcome to attend.
WELLS, Maxim
Thursday, September 29, 2011. Maxim “Maks” Wells, at the tender age of 28. Cherished and loving son of Donna and James. Dear brother of Stuart. Friends may pay respects at Kelly […]
We started the day at an estate auction run by a crabby auctioneer, followed by breakfast in a Glebe diner. Over breakfast, GC and I wrote a note to Elmaks, and later we visited his final swap box, which is hanging on the construction fencing on Bank Street, around Third Avenue.
We left the note […]
Continue readingMaks and Oboe
Elmaks, local street artist, inventor of The Swap Box, and all-round nice guy and gentle soul, died on Thursday. I’m told that his body was found in the forest on Friday, and that he had committed suicide.
I’m shaken and saddened by this news. I didn’t even realize he was depressed.
He came […]
Continue readingYesterday afternoon I was walking down Merivale Road, nursing a migraine, when the guy walking in front of me grabbed an election sign out of the grass and tossed it in the ditch. Moments later we were both standing at the intersection of Merivale and Baseline, and I said “You know, you’re not supposed to […]
Continue readingWe celebrated my son’s birthday on Saturday night. He came over for a barbecue and birthday cake. We gave him a boy mannequin wearing a giraffe costume for his birthday. (He collects giraffes.) Here’s a picture of James and his birthday present leaving at the end of the evening. I told him he had to […]
Continue readingI was internetless for a day and a half!
It all started when Rogers offered me a significantly better deal that I was getting from Bell. I accepted it. Then I called Bell to cancel my service. Of course I should have known Bell wouldn’t let me go that easily. They offered me a better deal […]
Continue readingI got a job! I start on Monday! I’ll be working four days a week for a non-profit housing organization I already know and like, with people I already know and like. It’s just for a few months, but it’s great for now. I’m excited, though a bit apprehensive because it’s been so long since […]
Continue readingSometimes Duncan seems like his perfectly normal old self, hopping in the car to go for a ride to the donut shop, catching a mouse or having a 17-hour nap punctuated by occasional stretches, yawns and visits to the food bowl. But then he’ll wake up and decide he cannot rest until he catches Oboe […]
Continue readingYou know how everybody has distinct preferences when it comes to buying bananas? For example, my homeless friend Dave X likes his bananas “lightly freckled.” I prefer mine still tinged with green. Because of that, I only like to buy three bananas at a time.
Which brings me to a dilemma.
When I’m choosing bananas, […]
Continue readingI got a little carried away Thursday evening at a quilting auction in Perth.
Elva Jackson, a quilter from the Lanark County Quilting Guild, died last year and her husband donated her fabric stash and quilting books to the Guild for auction. The proceeds went to Dignity House.
I bid early and I bid often. […]
Continue readingLearn to fly.
Time-space travel to Australia in 1993.
Find out if lovebirds taste like chicken.
Get my driver’s license.
Get fat again, but not so fat I can’t squeeze under the garden gate.
Go salmon fishing in BC with the grizzly bears.
Go birdwatching in Scotland.
Have a little friend, like Mr. Peebles.
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Continue readingThe morning after I wrote that last post about all the things my birds have destroyed, I was sitting on the couch with my laptop on my lap, and Simon was standing behind it playing peekaboo with me. He’d poke his head over the top and I’d say peekaboo and he’d look all pleased with […]
Continue readingA lot of people get rid of their parrots once they realize what they’ve gotten themselves into. Even if they’ve done their research, it’s one thing to read about it and quite another to live it.
Parrots are like winged toddlers who never grow up.
Here are some of the things my parrots have accomplished so far. […]
Continue readingSo a while back The Ottawa Citizen asked if anyone was interested in blogging about any of the local music festivals for them, in exchange for festival passes. I applied to blog about the Folk Festival. I kept waiting and hoping, but I never heard back from them. By the time I realized they weren’t […]
Continue readingThis duck is for my friend Robin Kelsey, of Watawa Life, who is fond of photographing water fowl.
The picture was taken by Aubrey Stoll. I have no idea what kind of duck it is or where it lives. But it is pretty spectacular.
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Continue readingI went to Parliament Hill yesterday, to pay my last respects to Jack Layton. It was a very long, very slow line which stretched pretty much around the whole East Block. I’m glad I went, though I didn’t stay.
There was a man near me in the line who said it would be 10 p.m. before […]
Continue readingI’m heartbroken about Jack Layton’s death this morning.
We all knew it didn’t look good a month ago when he stepped down temporarily from his job so he could get treated for cancer. He looked so thin. ‘Gaunt’ was the word everybody used. And the alarming thing was he had become so gaunt so quickly […]
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