When you wake up in the morning and you crawl out of bed and climb into your clothes and you make your coffee and eat your coco-puffs for breakfast and you go about your day, you never expect that this is going to be something other than your average-bear kind of day. Sometimes something happens that makes you go, "Seriously? Are you kidding me? ( Read more... )

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Hiccup and Fuzz were curled up on the couch on a cold March day, busily reading an Archie comic ( Read more... )

This evening, as I was walking along the waterfront, I slowed my steps when I heard something squeaking. I looked waaay up, like Friendly Giant used to say, and there at the top of a street light sat a seagull. It didn't look like most gulls - white and gray - in fact, it was rather like the colour of Melodye's counter-cat. I listened for a ( Read more... )

This morning Tori was reading about peasant revolts in Eastern Europe. Meanwhile, the resident bears were plotting a revolt of their own.

Fuzz and Hiccup, from their lofty perch, called the meeting to order.


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While we were in Vancouver yesterday, Fred reminded us that we had to hurry home so that we could be here to wish Carrie Happy Birthday and Congratulations on the release of her book Love (and Other Uses for Duct Tape).

Fred got distracted for a while when he and a seagull had a staring contest.


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Something special is happening today and you won't want to miss it!!


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I may be thinking about spring, now that the snowman convention is over and the participants have packed up their bags and headed north, but it's still pretty cold here!! Fortunately I have LOTS of tea.


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~ To Allison, Heidi, Kevin, Laura, Maggie and Melodye ( Read more... )

My hand hovers over the keyboard, relucant to make the first keystroke on this blank page on the first day of the new year. I sit poised, pondering, as I might regard a brand new handmade journal with unmarked pages or a sheet of watercolour paper. Deep breath ( Read more... )