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Moved!

I’ve moved, unpacked just about everything essential to everyday life, arranged the furniture (more or less) and hooked up the computer, tv and stereo. I’m so happy. I love my new place and my life no longer revolves around moving. Now I can unpack a few boxes a day and get back to doing more […]

Demented dog

My dog is demented. For real.

For the past month or so he has been weird. He spends much of every evening and night pacing and panting and trying to squeeze into weird spaces and getting stuck. He gets up on the bed (for some dogs that’s normal, but not for Sam) and then paces […]

Operation Budgie Rescue

Remember the other day I wrote about selling two of my budgies? Well…last night I was perusing the same buy & sell board, and I came across an ad in which Mandy, the woman who bought my budgies, was trying to sell one of them. She said her mastiff didn’t welcome him. There was […]

Daguerreotype of the week: post-mortem

This is a post-mortem daguerreotype – a photograph taken of a dead person. Many people now think of these images as morbid or gruesome, but I think they’re especially poignant.

Back in the Daguerreian era (1839 to ~1858), death was more routine than visits to the photographer. $5 for a photograph was a lot of money […]

Cheney victim attacks work with a vengeance

Hospital officials said Whittington, though still listed in intensive care, had a normal heart rhythm again Wednesday afternoon and was sitting up in a chair, eating and planning to do some legal work in his room.

I’ll bet.

Give Cheney a break

Who else thinks the media is making entirely too much of Dick Cheney accidentally shooting his buddy in the face? It was only a 78-year-old lawyer, after all, who didn’t even bother to announce his arrival. If the guy didn’t want to be shot, he should have said something. And big deal that Cheney […]

My NAC Curse

I seem to be cursed where the National Arts Centre is concerned. I bought tickets to five plays, five dances, and one symphony. I have fallen asleep during three plays, one dance, and the symphony – so far. Tonight I did not fall asleep.

I had a ticket to see a Japanese dance troupe – Pappa […]

Flock off

I have four budgie birds. The first two were given to me by my son, who obtained them from friends who no longer wanted birds. Their names at the time were Gunther and Gretchen, but I renamed them Jazz and Tango.

Then one day I came home from work and a blue bird flew through the […]

I have this friend…

I have this friend who is moving and she has this thing that was given to her as a gift by someone. She has kept the thing on display in her home for five years now. The thing is large and conspicuous, and let’s just say it’s not her taste. She likes the person […]

Daguerreotypes as shooting stars

I collect a lot of stuff: old cameras, nuns, boudoir dolls, old playing cards, antique photographs – and daguerreotypes. Each dag is unique – the dag is its own negative. In fact, if you tilt it, you can see it change from positive to negative and back again. Dags have holographic properties, and they’re quite […]