Stellar Sea Star Pictures

Our beach combing was fabulous. Warm tidepools. Sea Stars, Brittle Stars, Sea Anemones, Crabs galore, Barnacles, Muscles, Oysters, Hermit Crabs, Scallops, Minnows, and all manner of gloriously coloured rocks.

My Sweetheart chasing the dog with a starfish.

"Brodie! What's in the bucket?" … I wasn't fast enough to get the photo of the starfish on his [...]

Home for the dog and away we go again

After the gorgeousness of tripping around New York City, and through the gardens of Eden, and visiting the Amish and our family, we touched down at home for a night.

I can’t believe we didn’t take photos of our nomadic, house-sitting family, the Canfield’s! When we got home in the late afternoon, they were putting the finishing [...]

Privacy & People Pictures

For the next segment of our trip, we will pull the curtain and keep some of the pictures private.

First, there are the pictures of our dear Pamum’s ashes in the beautiful stainless steel box fashioned by my brother-in-law – and the burial of the same in a beautiful cemetery near her home. The headstone was carved [...]

who is this ‘sweetheart’?

Protecting the Innocent

I try to keep innocent people out of my posts … or vaguely disguise them … or give them nicknames. My sweetheart, obviously, has a nickname, but it’s hard to tell how innocent or disguised he might be so I thought I’d throw him to the internet wolves.

The next part of our journey, after [...]

Letcherous

Many of you will have missed the spelling error and think that I’m going to give you a little something offensive and sexual. Nope. Perish the thought! I’m a school teacher … well, not like the unfortunate man teaching at St. George’s (from which my son graduated a decade ago) who is charged with the distribution [...]

Gay Rights

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The symbolic start of the gay rights movement!

We saw the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village which is credited as the symbolic beginning of the very out, very loud gay rights voice. There had been activists prior to the the Stonewall Inn riots in [...]

Pre-Corpse Classes

My sweetie-pie asked a reasonable question, “Since they have pre-natal classes, why don’t they have pre-corpse classes?”

Okay, that might not pass as reasonable dinner table conversation in your household but around here, that’s just the way we roll.

Society thinks that a huge life-changer like having a baby should come with some supportive information and practice. Although [...]

Flaming Chainsaw Massacre a la JD Canfield

Seems I am incorrigibly clever when it comes to commenting on Joel Canfield’s many websites. My favourite is about the Nomad Canfields – who are currently living in my house, without me! It’s called http://canfieldofdreams.com. Next favourite is http://notwhatimeant.com.

At the beginning of July, I was enjoying Joel’s philosophical and personal ruminations about passive lying and I [...]

No More Anniversaries Until the Last Week of August

Notice how I put “last week of August” in the title? Not August 23rd or August 24th. One of those days my parents got married, and the other day my grandmother was born. Both events occurred before my birthday, so how can I be expected to remember what’s what?

As it stands now, there is no celebration [...]

Happy Anniversary AGAIN

photo by Jamie Delaine

Only not us, this time. The very best thing next to us … Adam & Lyndsay! Adam is my evil spawn and Lyndsay is his evil wife. I am the evil mother-in-law, and my sweetie-pie tries to stay out of all this evil – but for all we know he may be [...]

Happy Anniversary!

Happy Anniversary to us, happy anniversary to us, happy aaaaniversaaary, happy anniversary to us.

So "made for each other". Thanks, http://LyndsayLondon.com

My sweetie pie and I are celebrating our 9th wedding anniversary. We are in New York City. Tonight, we will be on Broadway (as in visiting on Broadway, not performing on Broadway.) The big [...]

Hitting the Road – New York City, here we come!

It’s here! ) Vacation, Day #1.

Unlike many online bloggers and posters, I am not taking you with me.

Back in May, I started gathering up ideas and writing ahead so that our vacation would be a vacation not only from our home, neighbourhood, and day jobs, but also from the hours of time spent on the [...]