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Category Archives: Portraits

the geek life

camping in review

Shouldn’t there be a picture of a tent or something? Probably. But you know what? We discovered that we hate tents. Okay, that’s too strong. We hate the feeling in our bodies, particularly our necks, okay, particularly my neck after sleeping in a tent. Maybe it was the bottle of wine. And this way, I [...]

umbrella girl

An umbrella provides so many minutes of entertainment. Up there with remote controls, frisbees, and my crappy phone. I want an iPhone4.

the women of Beaver Theatre Co.

girl on phone

Elsie is really busy these days…confiscating my possessions with the word “MINE!”, crank calling all the nice people in my contacts list and turning over her juice with a lily-white (thank you, thesaurus, that just about sums it up) “UPSEE DAISY!” We call her imp girl. I think my mother might have coined the phrase. [...]

thanks Victoria

A precious Victoria day. I can take or leave the Victoria part…and couldn’t even muster the energy to read the entire Wikipedia page on the history of the holiday…but time with family is certainly precious. So thank you Queen Victoria for whatever you did for Canada. (I can say ignorant things about Canada’s history because [...]

funny. or not funny.

Funny thing happened to me in Shoppers Drug Mart! Or not funny at all depending on how one views being harassed by the woman trying to sign you up for a Shoppers Drug Mart credit card. Certainly material for a stand-up routine, if you’re willing to admit that you would submit to such tedium, not [...]

weekend pleasures

Saturday and Sunday and Monday were gorgeous days in Toronto! As a family we were utterly compelled to walk and walk and walk and enjoy the blissful weather. Simon’s mohawk was also behaving admirably which added to our mutual satisfaction. Mostly mine. I like his hair. I like him.

the best of friends

This how it usually goes with these two. And the thing that gets in their way: stuff. In this case it was the Pioneer Village chalk board.

chef girl

This was taken just before Elsie slaughtered her breakfast goose, which she paired with green olives, hummus and a side of kale.