But remembering the past is also a way of believing that this moment will someday be the past. Which is to say, nostalgia for the past is also a way of believing in the future. Daydreaming about the After Times — the Before Times’s mythic counterpart — is in part an exercise in imagining what it will […]
Don’t think I’ll ever afford this but perhaps they need an on-site librarian? 😉
I said yesterday’s visit to Mexico would be our only one but we enjoyed it so much, we decided to go again to celebrate Valentine’s Day! 😉 (We’re not the only ones missing beach vacations apparently but this is pretty extreme!)
…I find myself downloading apps to test my hearing at midnight, suddenly worried that a lifetime of listening to loud music and going to concerts that left my ears ringing is catching up to me. (Luckily, at least according to a free iPhone app, I have nothing to worry about…yet.)
This is pretty cool (even though the tone sounds like an auto-tuned hockey organ!)
How does this happen? Well, one bottle is our home bottle, one was brought back from the lake at the end of summer and is still not used up and one was accidentally opened by a kid who doesn’t look very hard to see if there are any other open bottles anywhere!
Shea and I recently decided to give Hello Fresh a try. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s one of a few competing companies that have sprung up over the past decade or so that sends pre-packed supplies for making a single meal. Many of my friends swear by meal delivery services, referring to them […]
I recently heard about this site that lets you write letters to yourself at some point in the future. The idea is for teachers to use it with students, grandparents with grandkids, spouses to each other or pretty much any combination you can think of. You have the option to make your letter public but […]
1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? I had been on the board of Coteau Books, a well-established small Canadian literary press that had been in existence for almost 45 years, for nearly a decade myself. Unfortunately, the publisher had been seen a variety of issues compounding over the past […]
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Posted 31 December 2020
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January – “Happy New Month/Year/Decade (and I already screwed up the time stamp of a scheduled post so this didn’t go up right at 12:01am like I hoped but instead, was going to wait until January 12 to show up – oops!)” February – “Walked Sasha over to her school’s Family Literacy Night earlier this […]
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Posted 30 December 2020
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