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Yearly Archives: 2006

OAFE Award: ode to shawarma

If you aren’t a resident of Ottawa, you probably don’t recognize the word shawarma. You may know its cousinsView full post »

What ever happened to Sugar Crisp?

I remember it gracing my breakfast table in 1983 or so, at the coaxing of that smooth voiced, doe-eyed bear singing &#View full post »

Growing up.

You’d think that I would already feel like a grown up. I’m over 30, have owned two houses, been married, amView full post »

Cracked pots.

Augusto Pinochet died over the weekend. I don’t know much about his time in power beyond what wikipedia tells me.View full post »

Scared of Santa

We all have one.  A photo of ourselves as a child on the big guy’s lap.  For some, it was what they’dView full post »

Dual Citizenship

It’s pretty clear to me that the Prime Minister of Canada should be a citizen of Canada only. This would be trueView full post »

Poo this, poo that

I mentioned the Poo Sisters in my comment on Liz and Mark’s engagement announcement … the photo below tellsView full post »

Out-Charlie-ing Charlie

Inspired by Kris’ Charlie Brown Christmas tree post, I thought I’d tell the sad, sad, story of ChristmasView full post »

WOO HOO!

Not many of us old married folks can say that we got engaged in a place as exoctic as Trinidad…but even fewer canView full post »

Numb3rs

Throughtout this pregnancy, numbers have taken on a whole new meaning for me.  Every tiny milestone is marked with aView full post »

Bold prediction!

Pluto’s recent troubles, plus the moon being where it is at any given time, have provided me with an insight intoView full post »

As seen on Scrubs this past Friday night …

(Yes, we were watching Scrubs on a Friday night). Turk: I cannot believe you are freaking out about this! It’s aView full post »

Exploding Dog

One of my favourite ‘check it every few days’ websites is www.explodingdog.com. Alicia introduced it to meView full post »

Weird headline challenge

Can you beat this? Naked man on crack when alligator attacked I think the alligator was angry at his moustache.View full post »

Annoyed. **Updated**

Dan and I want to buy a rocking chair. One of those simple decisions that you make, act on and accomplish. Or so weView full post »