Cleveland rocks!

We were in Cleveland last week for a visit to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I’m a huge fan of the place; it’s a “spiritual” kind of thing for me, and we enjoy going from time to time just to take a walk through and re-connect with some “old friends”. If you’re a [...]

I meant to post this last week but never found the time……here it is – better late than never! Each year around this time, I feel the need to build a closet in my basement to house my fully decorated Christmas tree for the “other eleven months” of the year. I usually dread hauling the [...]

My heart on my sleeve…..so to speak

I love music…all kinds of music. It’s like oxygen to me – I can’t imagine a day without it. It has punctuated the best moments in my life and seen me through the most difficult. It can completely transport me back in time to a moment, a friend, an experience in a mere three notes. [...]

The reindeer at the end of the street

Imagine waking up to find this roaming around your front lawn! LOL! Seriously, this is part of my Dad’s annual Christmas display “extravaganza”. As long as I can remember (and even before that, I’m told) my Dad has been making wooden Christmas displays for his front lawn. As you can imagine, he’s now got quite the [...]

I love this photo of my brother. I don’t know why…..there’s something about his expression, the lighting, the colours – it all works for me. It’s taken with one of my favourite lenses – a 50 mm/1.8. It’s the 1.8 aperture that makes it ideal for taking shots indoors – it lets in a a [...]

All My Loving

My son played his first “concert” today. And, while it may have only been in the parking lot of the store where he takes bass lessons, it was a big deal – maybe bigger for me than him. It’s hard to tell – 15-year old boys don’t exactly share their emotions easily. Are you excited? [...]

Father’s Day….

OK – wish granted…. Back on Mother’s Day, you may recall that I’d kind of “hoped” for some kind of soccer game on Father’s Day to make up for the fact that I’d been sitting on a pitch for Mother’s Day (for a game that didn’t even count for anything, no less…..! Hmph!) Well, today, [...]

Mother’s Day

It’s Mother’s Day and it won’t come as a big shock to you that, in a few hours, I will be sitting on a soccer field in (close to) sub-zero temperatures watching one of my son’s games….an EXHIBITION game! (It doesn’t even count for anything!) Who schedules games that don’t count on Mother’s Day? Not [...]

…the day we did the “b” times table

I’ve just spent about two hours doing sixth grade algebra. Why is it that they feel the need to change “how” they teach things like math? Honestly….it eludes me. There’s this new thing they’re doing these days called “guessing” – where you guess the answer, test your “guess” in the equation, then once you’ve finally “guessed” [...]

Gobble, gobble…

There’s really nothing better than the smell of a turkey dinner cooking on a beautiful fall day. I love it – it is, hands down, my favourite meal and my favourite season. That’s what I’ve got going on right now, despite the hour (it’s about 9:00 pm on Saturday night). My house is filled with that [...]