This is the Difficult Part

September 29, 2011 Books and Reading

So Ward’s home from Okinawa now, and almost all rested from his jetlag.
Which means it’s time to start:
1. Packing the things we’ll be moving with us.
2. Listing things on Craigslist and Kijiji.
3. Giving things away.
4. Getting things ready for storage.
And it also means …
tackling the difficult part. Meaning, this:

These are the bookshelves in our living [...]

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Kitchen Mishaps, Kitchen Wisdom

September 24, 2011 Food

It’s been a week and a day since my husband headed off for some intensive martial arts training in Okinawa, Japan.
Which means I now have a week and a day of kitchen time under my belt.
To paraphrase Oprah, what do I know to be true?
Well, mainly that I’m much better at eating than I am [...]

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Some Bookish Television

September 21, 2011 Books and Reading

Ward’s away on his trip to Okinawa, and if anyone had asked what I would be doing while he was away, I would have said, “Why, reading, of course.”
I even stocked up on a few audiobooks: Gambit, by Rex Stout (a reread), A Trick of the Light, by Louise Penny (I’ve been SO looking forward [...]

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A Change of Plans

September 14, 2011 Life

Last week, I posted about the sale of our house, and the start of our housing search in Toronto’s Annex area.
Well.
It didn’t quite work out the way we’d been planning. After an exhausting week in which we traipsed into the city almost daily and viewed several houses, a condo unit popped up in the Yorkville [...]

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The Adventure Begins …

September 3, 2011 Life

It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks around here. We finalized the sale on our house earlier this week – the closing date is the end of November. Yay!
Ward and I are being somewhat daring. After 15 years of home ownership, we’ve decided to lease a place in the city rather than buying another place. [...]

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Index Cards (Or Writer’s Block? What Writer’s Block?)

August 20, 2011 Writing

There’s an old saying about when something’s not working, you’re never going to get a different result by doing the same thing. Or something like that (I’m the same way with wise old sayings and proverbs as I am with clichés – I mangle them to bits, unintentionally).
What with planning for our move to [...]

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My Audiobooks-Only iPod!

August 18, 2011 Books and Reading

I’m normally a very difficult person to buy a gift for. The only things I ever seem to want are books, more books, a few more books, soaps and tech-y gadgets. The problem with books and soaps are, within those broad ranges, I’m very picky. I only like certain types of books. I only like [...]

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The Summer Update Post

August 15, 2011 Life

I’ve been quiet lately, both on the blog and also out and about in the blog world and on Twitter. But there’s been a lot of stuff happening here over the summer!
The publishing industry is definitely getting back to speed – and from my perspective, it’s not just back on track after a couple of [...]

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Not Your Typical Travel Video

July 20, 2011 Life

My daughter Hayley went to Europe earlier this month with her friend Meaghan and Meaghan’s mother. She had a blast, and most of her souvenirs were in the form of pictures and videos. She definitely put her camera to good use!
Here’s what she’s done with some of the clips she captured on her camera while [...]

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A Little Bit of Random: Our Kitchen, Now vs. Then

July 17, 2011 Food

Last week, when I was messing around in my husband’s kitchen, I discovered some interesting (well, okay, random is probably a better word) differences between my husband’s kitchen, and what used to be “my” kitchen.
It’s not that I don’t go into the kitchen very often these days. I like to eat, and I am pretty [...]

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