A note popped up on my Facebook feed yesterday; a friend had ‘shared’ it, but the original note was from my knitting teacher, Lesley, whom I met a long time ago when we both worked at a poorly run arts day camp. Her daughter, India, was practically brand-new then. When I got reacquainted with Lesley ...

No, I’ve not gone all New Age-y, but I wanted to give a big shout-out to Jackie, Ali, Chris, and Richard, who helped me get through a rough week through sausage (not a euphemism), Moon Bean coffee, long bike rides, even longer patio drinking sessions, Hooch, very loud action movies, and being so understanding when ...

Sleep: Diabolically hideous, punctuated by the cat deciding 4:30am was time for breakfast. I kind of hate everything (except sweet, sweet coffee) right now.

I know next to nothing about cars, apart from how to operate them, so when my brother told me on Sunday that the car wouldn’t start (this a week after a heat shield fell off), I expected the worst. The car was also ‘out of oil’, which is really, really bad, so I thought we ...

Guitar update: Figured out the first seven notes for ‘Seven Nation Army’, which on an acoustic guitar is ridiculous, but hey, it’s something, right? Almost have two chords down and the beginning of a third. Not sure what to do with them yet. Might aim for a Monkees song first, for obvious reasons, even though ...

Remember the 90s? Lots of things happened then: The rise of the first 90210, the destruction of the Progressive Conservatives, my high school and most of my university years, the inexplicable, though brief, success of Hammer pants…