While walking on 103rd Avenue in Edmonton, I came across a wonderful collection of murals on a cinderblock structure by the service entrance to the Bell Tower high rise office building. I don’t know what the structure is for, but it is large, rectangular, and has no windows […]
For someone who doesn’t leave the house very often, it comes as a bit of a shock to actually go somewhere and get yelled at. Yesterday, while driving to Home Depot to buy a light fixture, I had to navigate my way through a horrible intersection. It is […]
Blogging about my funk last week made a significantly positive impact on my sense of well-being, and I was surprised how liberated I felt after writing it all down. I was able to stir myself enough to finish crocheting a hat that I had promised a friend. It […]
This made me laugh. If it is a duel between local gangs, I’d say they are equally inept. Their spray-painted tags cancel each other out. There seems to be as much red paint as black, which I think makes them even. And, in case the taggers […]
National Aboriginal Day in Canada is today, June 21, 2017. These pictures were taken near my home in Edmonton and show an art installation including a Giving Tree and several murals. The images and words are both sad and hopeful, grieving and rejoicing. I came away with an […]
This is the story of how a bracelet goes missing and a hairdresser gives good advice. How It All Started The morning that I was due to leave London and return to Canada, a bomber in Manchester killed twenty-three people and injured one hundred and sixteen others. It was […]
On the same day I learned that Edmonton is going to build an 80-storey building, Ben Carson, the US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, got stuck in an elevator in Miami. So, of course, I put two and two together. Sooner or later, elevators fail, or break […]
I am a snowbird who travels south for the winter. When I get there I have a bird of paradise plant on my patio.
