Holy Lobster Mashed Potatoes, Batman!

October 23, 2011 Food

Last weekend I flew to L.A. for a workshop, and unfortunately, I haven’t written up about my trip there yet. Because I came back to an avalanche of work deadlines and all the busy-doing of packing up for our Big Move. Can you say, Massive Overwhelm? Needless to say, in the midst of all of [...]

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Thanksgiving: What’s On the Menu

October 8, 2011 Food

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving, everyone! We’re holding our Thanksgiving feast tomorrow, and since I probably won’t have time to write up my Weekend Cooking post after our celebrations, I thought I’d fill you all in on our menu today. This year’s Thanksgiving dinner will be somewhat poignant, as it will be the last big family celebration [...]

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My Burning Frozen Meatballs Question

October 2, 2011 Food

This Weekend Cooking post wasn’t supposed to be only about frozen meatballs. You see, during my ten-day takeover of the kitchen while my home chef husband was away doing heavy-duty martial arts training in Okinawa (at the end of which he graded for his 6th degree black belt), I kept coming up with random questions [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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