I’m not one to make New Year’s resolutions, but as part of an overall personal objective of not procrastinating on doing things that are important to me I had an urge this afternoon to get home, have some butternut squash soup, and initiate a phone call that I’d been meaning to make for some time. [...]

I work in government, so we have to wait for The Phone Call to tell us we can go home. (I was in Vancouver on December 24, so I didn’t have to wait for it then!)
Good grief, nobody told us we could’ve gone home an hour ago, but at least we’re released…!

You may have heard “Suddenly I See” on heavy rotation in 2006, but what really turned me on to KT Tunstall’s work is the foot-stomping song “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” from that first album, “Eye on the Telescope” (released 2005). Check out her live version here — she shows her singing/songwriting/performing chops on [...]

My dad, wearing a sweatshirt he’s very proud of
2007 is nearly over, and this past visit to Vancouver was not only a reminder of how fast the Ms are growing, but how we are all growing older, too. My father will be 71 pretty soon, and the old chap’s only just stopped colouring his hair! [...]

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I picked up my Christmas present from my brother today… and excellent timing, too, as I’m getting around to editing the Stanley Park Christmas train videos with the kids in Vancouver. There’s also a big digital pile of videos that haven’t been edited at all. And, of course, there are lots of Toronto Short Film [...]

Since I’m so fond of posting photos of restaurant food online, I thought I would offer a more balanced look at my eating proclivities. I don’t eat out all the time, at least not in Toronto, though I’m sure it looks that way. But one thing is for certain: I never pass up a home-cooked [...]

I’m working my way through the tonne of Science World photos sitting on my hard drive and thought I’d post a series of Maddy’s stint as a volunteer onstage during the balloon show. I’ve been taking the Ms to Science World since Melissa and Michael were toddlers, and my photos of them there have collected [...]

I came off the red-eye this morning from Vancouver to Toronto and went straight to work (for the fourth time this year–oof), and wondered if my day at the office would seem to go on forever. Then I remembered today I was to have a leisurely lunch with JMV, who I met in Vancouver in [...]

Last night’s flight at 10:35 was easy as pie, I slept the whole way, plane landed at 06:00, caught the bus right outside the doors at Terminal 1, didn’t wait at all for the subway, caught the streetcar right out of the subway station, and got in my front door at 07:25.
Couldn’t have been any [...]