When I was 3 and 4 years old, I attended what would now be called pre-school but back then was called nursery school. Happy Time Nursery School to be exact - on St. Mary's Road in Winnipeg, MB. The school was in a small house, with the upstairs decked out with a coat room, art... Continue Reading →
Friending and Following (and being followed)
http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/social-media-affect-math-dunbar-number-friendships https://medium.com/treatises-on-a-modern-world/the-friend-and-the-follower-1b16ab6bda78 Every now and then I go through my various social media lists and pare back the numbers. I read about the Dunbar number a few years ago, in the book The Tipping Point, and have always found it intriguing that my own number - of FB friends, the social media equivalent of Dunbar... Continue Reading →
Oscar Picks 2015
This is a crossover post from my other blog, where I write brief reviews about all the movies I see (which is a lot - 146 in 2014). Tomorrow night is Oscar night, a formerly sacrosanct day for us that has waned in significance in recent years due to the out-of-this-world cost of seeing a... Continue Reading →
Lists of 2014
Things that irritated me: Rob Ford (a repeat offender) Christy Clark (ditto) Ice bucket challenge Jian Ghomeshi Greenpeace Things that inspired me: Chris Hadfield My aunt, for getting through and over DLBCL Humans of New York Sergeant at Arms Kevin Vickers #illridewithyou Things that amused me: Hadfields' "In Canada" Jimmy Fallon's lip sync contests Facebook... Continue Reading →
Item #7 – Our Daily Bread
I've never been quite sure what to call this item. I don't recall where it came from or how I came to have it. I don't remember getting it, just always having it. This is not a valuable ceramic by Doulton - just a made-in-Japan (literally) trinket. I remember as a kid being fascinated by... Continue Reading →
Item #6 – Cherry Bowl
This is the time of year for remembrances. For the past few weeks, I've been reading and hearing about soldiers - distant and recent past, as well as present - and reminded of their honour, duty and sacrifice, and the freedoms I have because of them. This year of course has been all the more... Continue Reading →
Item #5 – Denali Mug
Mugs are familiar keepsakes from tourist locations and travels everywhere. I have a few, but this one is my most precious and the oldest. As shown, it comes from Denali National Park, the centre point of my 6-week road trip in 1993 from Vancouver, through Yukon and around Alaska, and back through Alberta to home.... Continue Reading →
Beautiful Sunset
May there only be enough clouds in your life to make a beautiful sunset. As I enjoyed night after night of glorious sunset while on vacation, I was reminded of this wish, setting off reminiscences random and old. This blessing was delivered by a favourite teacher in Grade 3. Actually, he was a student teacher... Continue Reading →
Item #4: Highlighter
Alternate title: the purloined pen. I've had this highlighter since 1991. I keep it now for sentimental reasons, but also out of astonishment - it still works. The highlighter comes from the lab where I worked. Back in those days, highlighters were a standard tool for project chemists, reviewing data outputs and identifying key results... Continue Reading →
Childless by Choice
I am childless by choice. I am not childless because of lack of opportunity or failure of circumstance to enable me to attempt conception, childbirth and motherhood. I have consciously chosen not to have children, and by extension have made choices in my life that eliminated motherhood as one of its characteristics. I have no... Continue Reading →
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