What a book. Miriam Toews tackles the touchy subjects of depression and suicide with a deft ability, taking us through the helplessness and desperation of loving someone who cannot embrace life. This story was sad – so sad – and also filled with a sort of hope and love of life. There was humour and overwhelming sorrow tempered with the love of family. My favourite … Continue reading all my puny sorrows
I just finished reading Juliet Barker’s biography The Brontes and am feeling a little time travel weariness. I look outside and I’m in the mid-nineteenth century, filled with consumption and spinsterhood and political turmoil, and then I go and turn on a light with this magical thing called electricity and bam! back into the twenty first century just like that. This book took me a long time … Continue reading The Brontes
If you are or ever were a piano teacher, you would look at that title and shudder. Beethoven’s “Fur Elise” is one of the most played, most practiced, most sought after pieces that just … never … goes … away. Even after a student has finished the piece, you will hear it whenever they are fooling around on the keys, whenever you are writing in … Continue reading Fur Elise
I don’t know when we’ve had such a mild winter. It was a little cold at the beginning of December but above freezing since with a few odd dips below. You would think, with weather as warm as it has been, that the winter blues wouldn’t have hit very hard this year – unfortunately they socked me in the face and swiped my feet out … Continue reading And 2012 enters with a whimper.
So, I’ve been sick. Probably the worst I can remember as an adult. Viral laryngitis doesn’t actually sound that bad and I’m sure if someone had told me they had been laid up by, of all things, laryngitis I would have told them to suck it up but I would have been WRONG. Incorrect, mistaken, big red X, wrong. It started on August 13 and … Continue reading Breathing is highly underrated
I was flabbergasted the other day. Absolutely gobsmacked. All due to my insane book reading tendencies. I’m a little bit embarrassed to tell you, but I have a system when I go to the library. I have to, otherwise I will end up spending the whole afternoon picking books, then seeing something else I think I need to read, then exchanging, then ending up with … Continue reading It’s a small world after all
Living way out in the boonies of northwestern BC has its pros and cons. Pro – watching wildlife out my front window. Con – a long driveway with drifting problems. Pro – the only dog barking is my own. Con – when the power goes out a person is really on their own. One thing that we have been doing since we moved out here … Continue reading Getting What I Deserve (aka The Universe Likes A Good Laugh)
Toques I made for some crazy kids. Pattern – Turn a Square by Jared Flood Toque I made for brother-in-law Dan in 2009 that turned out too small and had diesel fuel spilled on it. Therefore, it turned into another toque for us. Pattern – Geometric Hat by Vanessa Ewing Another sweater for me, extra large (again) with a hood I will never use. But … Continue reading Knitting Report 2009/2010
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