Mnemonics are weird ways of remembering things that might be essential…or useless…like the Seven deadly sins or the formula for a deadly chemical combination. It all depends.
Not Your Average Wedding: Part I
There are few days we considered more significant or laden with emotion than wedding days. But what happens when the bride gets chicken pox? Does the show go on?
What A Tripp! Sarah Palin’s Daughter Stands By Her Man Again
Could it be that Sarah Palin’s daughter, Bristol, who got pregnant by a guy who took off for Hollywood and posed nude and fought dirty with his ex in public…. could it be this very same daughter is now back together with her ex?
Girl Meets Canada: Follow the Yellow Brick Road
The ongoing story of a girl and her van on an epic journey across Canada. …or the Yellowhead Highway… Day 7 (Sun, May 16) I was up in Terrace, BC, maybe 11 years ago. Actually, I was about an hour North of Terrace, in a tiny hippy community called Rosswood, for a music festival. It […]
Girl Meets Canada: The Longest Ferry EVER
A desire to see a northern British Columbia town leads our traveller to take the LONGEST ferry ride ever. Can she survive 20 hours of floating tedium? Will the town meet her expectations?
Girl Meets Canada: We Have Achieved Take Off!
The ongoing story of a girl and her van on an epic journey across Canada. So, did I mention that I’m driving across Canada this summer? I think I may have failed to do so. I’ve been thinking about it for so long, I just assumed that everyone else knew. The whole world. Hi, world! […]
Getting Bashed for Children’s Charities
A very big man squeezed into a red lycra superhero jumpsuit is aghast. “I’ve been lied to and cheated out of a million bucks by the Chairman.” Can’t something be done to rectify this injustice? Mr Incredible stops and stares at me as though I’m completely mad. “Hell, no,” he huffs indignantly. “After all, we’re […]
Character Flaws
I’m a sucker for anything with “character.” You know, one of those people that real estate agents market “charming” properties too. Also, the type that buys a new lipstick simply because its packaging is just so darn beautiful. And last but not least, the buyer of highly impractical, but terribly cute shoes.
Sleeping with the Finches: Tales of the Songbird Mafia
About a month into my feeding operation, I got up one morning to find three fat little birds sitting in the platter at the base of my feeder. These were not my usual customers. They were wild and rough looking, and occupied my feeder like it was now their private hangout, like Tony Soprano’s gang sitting outside Satriale’s. These were bad, bad birds, and I dubbed them the Songbird Mafia.
Make Sure You Come Over With an Empty Stomach!
Living in the multicultural society that we do, I am sure many of you have friends who are from India. Maybe most you already know about what I am going to explain in the next few paragraphs, but I feel it is compulsory to let those of you who don’t know that there are a […]
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