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Long before I owned a car, I had cassettes to take with me on road trips. Later, I had CDs, then MP3s on CD (who cares about the low quality in a car?) and now a phone playlist. A road trip is great time for an uninterrupted listen to concept albums (The Wall, Thick as Continue reading Tim s Awesome Road Trip Mix
A little over a year ago, my marital status officially became Divorced. Prior to that, for fifteen years, my divorce case was before the courts. Lots of people have been incredulous that a divorce could be so long and complicated (and expensive), but in telling others of my case, I learned that myths about divorce Continue reading 15 Myths about Divorce
Thought on hotels, especially the vanishing roadside motels.
I've been driving between Nova Scotia and Ontario for decades, and always find new things to explore along the way.
Parking problems at hospitals in Halifax has been much in the news. Expansion of the IWK included the teardown of a parking garage, and the construction of new one — on former parkland. And the provincial government s proud announcement that all hospital parking would be free has, predictably, made parking problems worse. It s generally accepted Continue reading A Pedestrian Visit to the Cobequid…
It s been decades since I Iast watched this film so, in a nostalgic mood, I watched it again recently. So many problems I ve always had mixed feelings about Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the 1968 fantasy-musical film, improbably made by the folks who made James Bond films. Perhaps not that improbably, since Ian Fleming created the Continue reading Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Thoughts
My dear friend, and author, editor, and founder of Somewhat Grumpy Press, DA Brown, was recently in a coffee shop, for coffee, doughnuts, and story material. She chatted with a couple, married many years, who had met at a campground the woman operated — not unlike the premise of my romance novel Ocean s Lure. Yes, Continue reading A true campground romance
Math and I don t get along. My academic career peaked in Grade 1, when I was first on the honour roll. I received A Child s Book of Poems as a prize and, while it wasn t as colourful as my already worn copy of The Gift Book of Nursery Rhymes, I liked it and I still Continue reading Pi Day Thoughts
Halifax Transit has used modern technologies to put a century-old fare payment process online - instead of adopting a modern payment process.
Shakespeare names February only once, at the end of Much Ado About Nothing, where Benedick is described as having “such a February face,/So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness”. Perhaps he too wanted to forget about this dismal time of year. Reblogging a post from 2014 (so don t plan to attend any events mentioned).