Today is Canada Day. Like most national holidays of this flavour, it’s celebrated with family gatherings, parades, politicians and fireworks. I think we should celebrate with food too. So, today, eat something red and white in honour of Canada Day. (You can stick a ‘u’ into words like ‘honour’ and ‘colour’ too if you like.)…

We’ve talked about blank books before, and generally agreed that we like them. A lot. No surprise that I’ve acquired a few more. I was in the stationary store and they had a new size that I thought would be handy – that in-between size, which is big enough to write entire paragraphs on each…

This week, both Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson passed away. Both deaths made me sad. I’d read several articles about Fawcett’s fight with cancer that shook me – remember that iconic poster of her in the red swimsuit, laughing? It was hard to believe that she could be sick – or in her sixties. It…