Sorry, no time to write.


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It's the second truly warm day, and Montreal has woken up from the winter. All of the cafés have put the tables back out on their terraces, and people sit in sweaters and scarves eating brunch in the sunshine ( Read more... )

of many things.

( haircut, gentleman caller, doppelgangers, and baby! )

My amazing niece's band, the Sons of an Illustrious Father, got a great review in The Ruckus.

Also a rough track from their forthcoming album here, which blows my mind in new ways.

(...and if you like that, her solo stuff, Squinch Owl, is most definitely worth a listen as well.)

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Some of you girls are going to have to explain to me why women hate getting their periods, because seriously? IT MAKES THE PMS END. I'll take the cramps and tiredness and gas any day over the 7-10 days preceding it, during which I have a tendency to believe that everything I have ever done has been wrong, I am never going to be able to do anything ( Read more... )

I got all my hair chopped off yesterday, and it is way too short, and I absofrigginglutely do not like it, and I was putting away laundry last night and found one of my long, long hairs in a sweater and burst into tears. But I had to do it, and if I hadn't done it now, I would have done it in a couple weeks, and gone through this same thing then, ( Read more... )

Baby Myriam Lily joined us on the outside on Wednesday night, at 8:43. She is itty bitty (6 lbs even) and absolutely delicate and lovely, with a lot of blonde hair, such long eyelashes, and a little rosebud mouth ( Read more... )

open up your wild and secret heart
and your flower, the tenderest part

(Greg Brown)

1) Love affair with Larry & Luna's Coconut Bliss coconut milk ice cream. Soy ice cream pales in comparison, oh my goodness. I could sit and eat the whole pint with a spoon if I didn't pay attention ( Read more... )