January: I have had a web site from about 1996, always having someone else maintain it for me. This has been a good thing, but it has always frustrated me that I lacked the know how to make quick changes to it when I needed to do so ( Read more... )

I buy a lot of books. I also am my local library's biggest fan. I haunt their computer system and often have books reserved while they are still at the being ordered stage, which can mean a long wait. I don't mind this, it increases the anticipation when a book by a favourite author is imminent ( Read more... )

As a treat for the teen I was planning to make some ginger cupcakes and had purchased a pot of black strap molasses. My plan was to leave them for him while I was away for the weekend at a meeting ( Read more... )

We ran out of tea this morning, so I went down to the root cellar to see if we had any boxes stashed away. We didn't. What we did have was the most appalling smell. I looked all over to see what could be causing it, even opening up my recently made Christmas puddings to see if something had gone wrong ( Read more... )

Wouldn't that be a great title for a pulp novella from the thirties ( Read more... )

I have no clue how my mind works - I am constantly surprised by what I think about, what worries, delights, or surprises me.

Following the lead of cynthialord I used Wordle to create a snapshot of my recent journal entries:


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I spent most of today in the Archives of Ontario, having hit historical novelist paydirt in the form of a diary written by a farmer who lived in Ancaster from 1798 until his death in 1853. My current book is set in Ancaster from 1812-14 ( Read more... )

I went back in time today and started digging through some of my old stories. These were ones written nearly twenty years ago in the creative writing classes I took when I first moved to Canada ( Read more... )

I'll wear my colours on my sleeve - I have yet to see a Mike Leigh film that I have not liked. So, I was intrigued to watch his latest one Happy Go Lucky last night, particularly as all I had read about it seemed to indicate that it was, as its title might suggest, much lighter than his usual films ( Read more... )

Have you ever noticed how everyone when they get mildly sick has a particular body part or organ most likely to be affected ( Read more... )