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Box of Rain

It’s mid-June, just after 6:00 pm, and I’ve got the windows and doors open to a darkening green day. The rain is p

I do think we’re done with snow! Possibly not, but this week marks the start of spring for us. Sunshine, bugs, the first daf

It’s been nearly three years since we moved across Canada and bought a cottage house on the outskirts of Halifax, and it has

By last Thursday, it was predicted that Nova Scotia would have an ice storm starting sometime on Friday. We often get dire wea

I was thinking about the ordinary today and realized that my days are not the languid, unstructured, and undisciplined days I

It is not even Christmas, but I’m over it. I have one lit reindeer in the bay window, plus a few pine cones. I have two Zoom

I just watched Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President, a documentary that came out last year. It was available up here in Can

I recently rejoined the workforce after our big move to Halifax, Covid-19, and a receding job market made job-hunting tough. I

Here it is, my favorite season, though I am not ready to let summer go–and my one and only grandchild has come into the

The point of this post isn’t necessarily about pumpkin ale but about my usual theme: life revolving around the seasons.