As some of you may know, Caleb is starting kindergarten in the fall, which is terrifying and unbelievable, among other things. Caleb is pretty excited, so I’ve been using this as an opportunity to blackmail him into doing things he doesn’t really want to do. There’s been a lot of “you can only go to … [Read more…]
This past weekend was the Taste of Little Italy, an annual street festival along College, featuring all sorts of tasty food. College Street is closed down to cars, and fills up with tents and smokey barbecues and crowds of people. Jon and I had been before, but it was Caleb’s first time, and it was … [Read more…]
“A novel is an enormous ball of cotton batting which sops up thousands of hours, giving almost nothing but a little lint in return.” – Kurt Vonnegut A while back, our staff book club read Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano, and while picking up the book from the library, I found a copy of Kurt Vonnegut’s … [Read more…]
The other day Jon had an appointment in Cabbagetown, and I took the babies down the street to Allan Gardens to wait for him. Allan Gardens is a large city park that has an off-leash dog park, but is mostly famous for its architecturally beautiful greenhouse, which is open to the public. I had initially … [Read more…]
As spring marches on into summer, I’m enjoying the settling in and slowing down, and recently, I did some cleaning and freshening up of my lineup. Like with most things in life, there’s nothing more conducive to productivity and clearing out the cobwebs of your mind than doing a good reorganization and flushing out of … [Read more…]