Category Archives: It’s a Wonderful Day in the Neighbourhood

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost As it turns out, the animals were actually quite happy to let me in the front door. Provided I let them … Continue reading →

It’s all I thought about yesterday. It’s all I have wanted to think about today. At 11pm tonight I will walk through my front door. I will pet my dogs, snuggle my cats and sleep in my own bed. Home. … Continue reading →

My washing machine died yesterday, refusing to have anything to do with a spin cycle. I am left with sodden bedding and a lack of jeans. I suppose I am thankful, at least this happened on a week that I … Continue reading →

We are not, Mr. Spit and I, terribly ostentatious people. We live in a small house, we don’t wear flashy clothes or jewelery and we drive a nice, sensible, German station wagon. It has never had much get up and … Continue reading →

You know, the grass is green, the pansies and primroses are blooming, the croci are coming up, I saw blooming azaleas andapparently the cherry treeswill start their show in just a few weeks. You feel badly complaining about anything, you … Continue reading →

Randomly, for the last several years, friends would joke that I should get a tattoo. I always kind of shrugged. A tattoo? Me? Really? I had thought maybe for my 35th birthday. I pondered what I might want to get, … Continue reading →

I am getting over being very sick. One of the cats is very sick. Mr. Spit is starting to get very sick. Send soup, please?

Oh Internets. Do you know what you do in early spring, when you have moved into your house in the dead of winter, to meet your neighbours? You go out and you shovel. Oh, not snow dear internets, you shovel … Continue reading →

Dear ZX4 Driver: I think it’s great that you have made your car your own. I think it’s great that your car expresses your personality, the very essence of you. Just a single thing to note – if you are … Continue reading →