We are presently under attack. Your service is required.

 Please grab a bottle, an appetizer (no nuts please) and some tunes and join us here.

 As is our way, this venue could move swiftly back to Cat's blog because she has the best basement, and the poor sod seems… Read full post »

 

Maybe many Americans didn't recognize the young singer who sang O Canada at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Olympics, but Canadians have been watching 16 year old Nikki Yanofsky come along for a few years.

Not too many singers, no matter how good, can scat like Ella… Read full post »

 

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I just returned from a short trip to Montreal and Quebec City. It reminded me that I am actually thankful the Separatist Movement helped to preserve the French heritage in Quebec - La belle province. I know that many Canadians kvetch about the money and the headaches caused by this,/…

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My husband and I separated briefly this summer. I wrote a post about the most difficult moment of that time, but I removed it rather quickly. Leaving it up didn't feel respectful to my husband or our relationship, but I really (you have no idea) appreciated the suppo… Read full post »

 

Did you miss ACT ONE or ACT TWO. Maybe you shouldn't have had that extra beer before coming to the theatre? Just sayin'

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Act 3, Scene 1 - Who Else Could it Be? 

Our blogger is picking up the fallen newspapers and trying to clean up the living room.… Read full post »

This is Frivolous Friday Fluff Stuff. Or it is scientific discovery, depending on your view of the world.

Ok, men of OS, I beg of you, please, before I go insane (again), help me understand some of the secrets of the universe like:

• Why is a man with a degree
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I went down to my storage locker in the basement yesterday in search of my old Brownie badges (thank you surly). I knew that somewhere buried under old skis and folding chairs and fans was a box full of boxes full of things I’d long forgotten. I wasn’t prepared to really… Read full post »

 

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When did you know? When life smacks you in the face, do you realize that you saw it coming all along?

 

I spent five years in an on-again/off-again relationship with a very successful lawyer. We lived 3000 miles apart most of the time, so it was good that… Read full post »

While the Cat's away, the mice will play, or so the saying goes. This week I've been left to feed the cat. Unbelievably, kitty trusted me not to just award myself a tiara and be done with it. And surprisingly, I can be trusted. Go figure. 

For any of you who… Read full post »

I really don't care so much about this latest OS dust up, but then I wasn't hurt by any of this. But others were hurt, and they have as much right to be hurt as I have not to be.

Feelings are real, everybody has them, and discounting them does… Read full post »

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Written and directed by JKBrady

Starring MEMEMEMEMEMEMEMe and some of you.

(and a Super Special guest star)

Performed nightly on OS.

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Please remember to turn off your cellphones during the performance.

  

Act One - No More Doritos After Midnight

Act 1, Scene 1 

Scene: A woman s… Read full post »

LOS ANGELES – In what may be the first ever cyber case of Munchausen’s by Blogger, a local blogger has been arrested for causing unnecessary harm to several of her family members and pets. (Munchausen's by Blogger is a newly discovered strain of Munchausen's by Proxy, a disorder in which… Read full post »

Tomorrow, President Obama wraps up his first year in office with the State of the Union speech. He promised a whole lot of change, but so far, it looks like a whole lot of the same old thing wrapped up in a shiny new package.

  

Meanwhile, north of the border, Prime… Read full post »

Did you miss Act 1? Were you in the bathroom at curtain call?

If so, click here to start at the beginning GO TO ACT 1 

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Act 2, Scene 1 - You Can't Handle the Truth

As the lights come up, they stand in a library like room full of stacks of… Read full post »

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September 11 - Aujourd’hui, nous sommes tous Americains 

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Barry’s (bbd) beautiful 9/11 remembrance post reminded me not only of this quote, but of how this sentiment resonated with me on that day.

 

I imagine that most American’s see the events of this day primarily… Read full post »

 

My Russian grandmother doled out two things in copious amounts: food and love. Both were untouchable in their quality. Most, if not all, of my memories of her include the traditional Russian dishes she made for us.

A Sunday dinner at my grandmother’s house was a smorgasbord of tr… Read full post »

 

 

When I was 16, our family moved back to the Toronto area after spending four glorious years living in lotus land (Vancouver). During our time in the West, and because we had no family out there, we spent Christmases skiing in the interior. I loved it. No fuss, no… Read full post »

You would think after the first disastrous deceitful Christmas with John, the pathological liar that I described in my last post, I would have been done with him, but that was not to be. It would take me a few more years of on again off again crap before I finally… Read full post »

As long as I’ve known you, even though I didn’t always know it, you’ve had this thing inside you. At times it’s been big enough to see and feel, and at other times, it plays death-watch peak-a-boo, providing euphoric false hope before popping back into view a few month/… Read full post »

I am often amazed that I have so little memory of my childhood, or should I say the voices of my childhood. While I marvel at other people’s ability to recall entire conversations with family and friends, I remember nary a word I spoke or that was spoken to me before… Read full post »

  

Some sacrifices should be honoured everyday.

 

 Highway of Heroes by Bob Reid

This is an excerpt from something I posted months ago. It describes a drive I took down the Highway of Heroes back in March, 2009.

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As I approached the 401 Highway, I noticed a… Read full post »

As a proud citizen of the host country and a past resident of Vancouver, I triple toe looped at the chance to help Salon.com find an appropriate frozen dessert with which to celebrate the Olympics. I know a little about winter sports and skiing at Whistler and even more about celebrating… Read full post »