Category: family
Today would have been my dad’s 75th birthday. What can I say about my dad that I haven’t said a million times before? In honour of his birthday, I have named my shiny Pidgey Pokemon after my dad and have made him my buddy for the day. In truth, Pidgey looks less like a real […]
Having a birthday in a pandemic-induced quarantine is probably not anyone’s first choice for a 9th birthday. But that is the situation that we find ourselves in, so for my nephew’s 9th birthday today, we decided to have a group video chat to share birthday cake. My niece baked a tie-dye birthday cake at my […]
As you may recall, my family and I love to bake. And sometimes at Christmas, if I’m not in Ontario visiting, we cyberbake: I bake in my kitchen in BC and my mom and my sister bake in my sister’s kitchen in Toronto and we videochat while we do said baking ((As aside: this past […]
Those of you who know me in person are probably painfully aware that I am an extreme extrovert. So self-isolation and social distancing are quite a challenge for a social butterfly such as myself. But since lives are literally on the line, I am taking the advice of experts who say to stay the hell […]
Speaking of things that suck, it’s been eight years since the day my dad went into the brain surgery that, ultimately, resulted in his death. I know I say it every year, but I can’t believe it’s been that long. Today when I went to the gym and thought about the weight bench and the […]
I’m back dating this posting to yesterday because I had it mostly written but didn’t quite get around to finishing it before I had to leave for a New Year’s Eve party last night. a saison beer olive tapenade beer battered fish tacos salmon cakes balsamic vinaigrette peach-bourbon jam – made this from peaches I […]
Merry Christmas Eve to you, whatever you may be doing tonight!