Category Archives: Mixed Bag

Love YourSelfie

Usually when I pose for selfies*, I’m going for that “Hey guess what, I love the way this lighting makes me eyes look like the colour of green jello and I don’t have cheeseburger drippings stuck to my chin for a change … Continue reading

The Most Distasteful Food Article I’ve Ever Read!

 I like gratuitous smut as much as the next 40-something suburban non-housewife. I’m just not appreciative of having it served up to me by a Toronto Star “Food Reporter” in the form of a news article. A few weeks ago, … Continue reading

Simple Sundays

I love fresh weeks almost as much as I like fresh sheets.  But Sundays…..Sleep late, have coffee, eat leftovers, don’t wash, don’t dress,  linger, catch up, read the paper, have another coffee, daydream, un-apologetically listen to Jason Mraz,  indulge, eat dark chocolate … Continue reading

You Make Me Want To Be A Better Blog.

I don’t write regularly, but when I do I want to write about all things interesting, pretty, weird, confusing, entertaining, complicated, appealing, inspiring, motivating and real. This last year, I have been busy  writing for print and digital publications {humble brag … Continue reading

The Pair That Got Away

I am having a blogging crisis over a pair of cashmere/lambswool blend gloves. The problem is not even that I say things like,  ”Oh I like those touch-screen enabled gloves, do they come in green?”  though maybe it should be. No … Continue reading

S’Crazy…we look exactly the same!!

S’Crazy…….we havent’ changed a bit, right? How is it we still look the same sixteen years later? …how is this possible? Same weather. Same giggles. Same fights. Same love. We just added multiple homes, friends, jobs, sleepless nights, unfair circumstances, … Continue reading

Long Wonderful Train To Halifax (and a short wonderful giveaway!)

“There is a town in north Ontario, With dream comfort memory to spare, And in my mind I still need a place to go, All my changes were there.” Neil Young In my twenties and thirties, my life was all about American movies, … Continue reading

I Think My Dentist is Stalking Me!!

I am officially too lazy to Google. Now when I need to know something, I bring it to twitter. Except this is what ends up happening: I put inanimate objects in my mouth and bang them around. I guarantee that my husband … Continue reading

What To Do When You Really Suck At Something

I walked past my new neighbor and called out “merci” when I meant “bonjour”! Crap. Now we have to move #mortified That happened last week. And if a stranger asks me about it, I will just shrug, lie, and say … Continue reading

I Like Big Blogs&I Cannot Lie

I don’t really like blogging. More specifically, I don’t really like my own blog (yours is lovely, I swear).In fact, if this was somebody else’s blog, I’m not sure I would even be reading it.Sure, some of my titles are … Continue reading

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