For the past few years, I’ve set out our leg lamp inspired by the movie, A Christmas Story, on a table in front of our livingroom window. Outside of the holidays, the lamp lives in our guest bedroom, where it provides illumination of the dresser top. This year I decided it would stay there. …
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Derek and I don’t make public declarations about our relationship. Occasionally, there’ll be a compliment or a jokingly sarcastic comment on social media, but that’s mostly meant to entertain. Whatever we think or feel about each other tends to stay between us. …
When I told my brother about how I ended up with a mittful of Starbucks cards, he called it Ungifting and suggested I might be on the leading edge of a new trend. I’ll share the story and let you decide. …
When it’s gotten stressful at work, I’ve often jokingly said, “I’m going to start an alpaca farm”. …
Thanks to my former colleague Mike Eppel for digging this up from his “Welcome to CKNX” kit in 1989. …
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Some people are cat people, some are dog people and for a while, I was a lizard person. …
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We’re going to an Ugly Christmas Sweater party this weekend, much to the chagrin of elderly Christmas fans everywhere. …
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This weekend gave us the opportunity to use fresh eyes to show our dear friend Eric around London. Â …
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I was pretty sure I’d never be a Mom. But I got to scratch my Mommy itch when Tabitha and I became Big and Little Sisters a long, long time ago. Â …
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Science is my guiding force in this life. I’m not likely to believe in things I can’t see and although I don’t pooh-pooh anyone else’s philosophies of life, I have a healthy skepticism for them. Live and let live, I say. So imagine my surprise when I found out that I’d been experiencing a paranormal phenomenon, without even realizing it. …
Before he became our Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau was asked in an interview what kind of coffee he liked to drink. “I don’t drink coffee, actually”, he responded. “I learned that it was addictive and didn’t want anything to have a hold over me.” Â …
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Can kids get away with now what we got away with back in the day? These days, you can track teens with a smartphone app. In my youth, my parents just had to hope I’d do what they taught me and survive. …
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We’ve been a two-cat household for more than a month now and things have settled into a routine. Our new adoptee Sugar, or Miss Sugar, is a delight. Spice is making sure she knows she’s #2 and he’s #1. There have been some incidents of hissing and chasing but no actual fights. They even get affectionate sometimes. …
Derek’s Dad was just 21 in 1943 when he answered the call to fight in WWII.Â
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I was living in Burlington when a story came out about the toxicity of a chemical used in hair dye. A study showed that whatever it was, was leaching into the scalp and possibly causing harm. Grey-haired women of a certain age let out a silent scream and ran to health food stores, looking for natural alternatives. …
Yes, Apple brought us many innovations and, yes their products are amazing and changed the world of technology and blah blah blah. I just wish someone had told me that once I chose an iPhone, it was like choosing which side of the bed to sleep on. It’s mine for life! …
We have a Halloween tradition that’s been going on for six years. We unscrew the lightbulb in the garden lantern, keep all the lights off in the house and stay in the TV room at the back and watch a movie. This year’s selection: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, which Derek had never seen. …
As a rock radio-obsessed teen, I must have spent hundreds of hours analyzing song lyrics. Back then, what we now call classic rock was new music, and my friends and I would pore over the album liner notes for everything from Aerosmith’s Dream On to Come Sail Away by Styx to Supertramp’s Even in the Quietest Moments. Those songs had more depth and meaning to us than the required reading that teachers assigned us in English lit. …
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