what always surprises me

This week at the Small Fancy the theme is “What always surprises me about Vancouver/Charlottetown”. Paul already pointed out to me an error in mine… there are women who sweep too. It’s true, I’ve see  her, but I forgot about her while doing this last night. Also in last week’s SF I mentioned that you [...]

one more go… with Angelo.

Let’s face it, we’ve had a pretty crumby run with pets. Last year we had 2 hamsters and 2 fish die, then to top it off, we failed miserabley at puppy ownership. I have a feeling that’s all behind us now though.  We found this sweet little guy at the Humane Society and we’ve had [...]

happy easter

Happy Easter weekend.  We have had a lovely weekend full of warmer weather, sunshine and visiting family. Hope you are all enjoying the long weekend.

island poems

The Island Poems Show is up and open at the Guild. It runs from now until April 30th. The poem I had to work from was a beautiful poem by Jane Ledwell about water. There was a line in her poem that I couldn’t get out of mind,  about how water sings in frozen snow… [...]

montréal, part 2

Along with all the leisurely walks, coffee drinking and baby holding, I also got to visit some amazing book stores while in Montréal. The first, this one above is the Drawn and Quarterly store. I had a mild heart attack when I saw how close it was to my sister’s house (around the corner!). I [...]