Category: Day-to-Day

  • By Its Cover 1

    This time I am making myself post my book choice *before* reading it. The book of the week is Acting the Giddy Goat: I picked it out because it is a trade paper back (sorry, it’s true… that’s why it won this week). I really prefer holding TPB’s, since I usually read lying in bed,…

  • Book Review: The Disorder of Longing

    While shelving at the not-so-tiny library the other day, I realized that all of the older books did, in fact, look pretty much the same. You can’t judge them simply by looking at them. This is in stark contrast to a recent claim that I made to a patron that I’ve had rather a lot…

  • The Dinner Blues

    Let’s be up-front about this: I recently found myself saying to my husband (and not even in the heat of the moment), “I hate having to feed my children healthy food.” Sometimes it is tempting to throw my hands up in the air, and simply declare a moratorium on these family dinners that everybody says…

  • Another Day in Paradise

    It was a cooking and rebuilding the blog day here in lovely (and surprisingly warm) Cape Breton. I think I’ve finally figured out what to do with this blog, but there will be more fiddling before I start to get regular postings into the schedule. Today’s cooking included: Play Dough Chocolate Chip Cookies Corn Bread…

  • The Beauty of The Beach

    Yesterday was the first really warm day of the summer. Since we are primarily occupied with looking after children and growing plants, we usually spend the nice days trying to get the children to help us grow plants. Yesterday, however, we took the day off to go to the beach. It’s such a traditional summer…