Years ago, we were looking for a way to fill a very long summer day with young kids. We found ourselves on Nova Scotia’s South Shore with no particular destination in mind when a…
Gone hitchhiking. (As a kid, I was definitely in the car when my dad picked up hitchhikers, which wasn’t all that unusual at the time. In university, I worked with someone who hitchhiked the…
Wowzers. One full week of August is in the rearview mirror. It was another busy one with, as I alluded to yesterday, the typical ups and downs of life. A huge thanks to everyone…
Lest you think my life is one big Happy Things Friday montage, rest assured — there’s always stuff happening behind the scenes. Some of it’s bloggable, some of it’s…not. (When SHU and I had…
In recent years, summer months have marked a precipitous drop in my reading activity. Now that the kids are a bit older (and I’m in a reading groove, mostly because of all the wonderful…
I’m a decent speller. (The kids’ spelling, for the record, borders on horrid, and I mostly blame the school-issued Chromebooks and their ever-present autocorrect. But that’s a rant for another day…)
