5 Year Plan
I was watching the Barbara Walters special before the Oscars – and can I just say how very awful the Academy Awards were this year? I’d rather have watched Rob Lowe dancing with Snow White for a couple of hours than watch that impersonal, rushed, yet dragging-into-eternity evening and where was I again? Oh yes,…
Sweet Boredom
I can’t remember the last time I had vacation. Of course, it could be argued that when you’re not working, you’re perpetually on vacation, but it’s not the same. Life fills up, regardless of what you do – or don’t do – and although you may lollygag for a few hours in an afternoon and…
Of Two Minds
Jeff Probst has a new show called Live for the Moment, which according to his blog post on the Entertainment Weekly website “tells the story of someone who has experienced a life-changing event that inspired them to change how they live their life”. The show sends “them on a series of adventures which offer major…
Metamorphosis
Another sidetrack – must be something in the water? I’d intended to write something about rumpled reporters connected to blathering on about two movies: State of Play and The Soloist and then… well. You’ll see. Suffice to say is go rent ’em. Being witness to fantastic actors – Russell Crowe and Helen Mirren in State…
A Request of the Universe
You know how when you stub your toe, somehow it becomes a magnet for impact? You haven’t stubbed it for a couple years, but the moment you do, furniture starts leaping out at you and despite not having dropped anything in weeks, now you drop an apple and it lands on your toe and when…
Things That Make You Go ‘Huh?’
The week’s only half over and already, I’ve encountered three things that made my wee brain feel like I’d sprained it. Thing the first. I was watching a commercial the other day and it’s enough of rare occasion that it warrants mentioning, as I usually tape – yes, I still use a VCR – programs…
Habits, Tics and Verbal Twitches
People have habits, both in behaviour and in speech (yes, more about words today). Adolescents – and an unfortunate amount of young adults – say like way more often than necessary. Overhearing conversations on the street or in foodcourts where a third of the words is like can drive a person to distraction and dangerously…
Wonderful Woofstock
After last week’s extended detour into frustration, I decided to have a completely sybaritic weekend in which my activities would be entirely decided by my Id. Which twice led me to Woofstock (and I consider it a small miracle that I made it through two days of the largest dog festival in North America without…
Nightly Mayhem
I have a pretty lively nightlife. And not of the kind usually referred to when someone says a sentence like that. No, I am a creature of habit, usually staying at home in the evening, entertaining myself with bugging the cat, watching a movie or reading and occasionally hanging out with friends. I just read…
Family Dinners
Along with a good portion of other people in the Internet, I read Dooce and sometime last year, when Heather started doing momversations with other prominent mommy bloggers, I started watching that, too. They’re smart, funny women with interesting takes on issues of parenting and despite not being a parent, not surprisingly, I have opinions…
Geeking Out with New Words
I’ve had the kind of week that usually only happens during Mercury retrograde – not that I would necessarily admit to a strong belief in astrology, but when a pattern happens often enough, the accumulated evidence will eventually impact my position and shift it a little, because if it didn’t, I would have to abandon…
Mistaken Identity
It’s Friday afternoon and I’m on my way home from running errands, basking in the sunshine that can feel warm if you’re out of the wind. Spring is coming, but I can still see my breath. I turn the corner onto my street and notice two police cars. Idly, I wonder what’s happening – there’s…