Sarah's Christmas Plans ( Read more... )

Oh, NOW I feel home...sort of...my clothes finally unpacked back into my little bedroom in the back of the flat. All three roommates finally home for the first time all week. The smell of tempura wafting from Maiko, wiffs of rugeleh dough being prepared for tomorrow morning at Cheskie's. Roommate Emma puttering towards the bathroom with her towel ( Read more... )

So back in Canada...and there is no mistaking it. Labour Day has passed, and while it's still sandal-weather, it is Fall. The early twilight sunlight casts a warm gold on the green and yellow leaves of Mile End. Corn is selling for cheap in barrels on Parc av, the tomatoes in the grocery stands blush with harvest colours. The sun is warm, but ( Read more... )

1) I just got back from California ( Read more... )

Hey world ( Read more... )

I took a long sunny walk today towards my favorite Greek bakery to fetch a loaf of corn bread. On the way home, a little old lady stopped me and, rather frantically, asked me if I spoke Yiddish - in Yiddish ( Read more... )

When "Chaimie" hasn't called in four days, and has not returned my page this morning to see if I'm indeed working my regular Friday afternoon shift, I have to wonder...am I fired ( Read more... )

So this bakery job keeps getting better and better. I often feel like I'm watching myself play out some scene, probably from some delightful eighties feel-good flick set in the lower-east side. I can't believe how hilarious my life is. One year ago I would have been mortified to be working at a bakery under the table, being verbally abused by ( Read more... )

This past winter I gave up both refined sugar and facebook. And I felt free. Now it's summer-ish, I can't go more than an hour without either.

Meh?

I am rereading back entries of this bloggy-blog blog, and marvel that I once was able to string a sentence together. Five months of writing contracts has slackened my muscle for emotional rhetoric. Typing has become work of the dreary - I save my verbal brilliance for conversations with other humans ( Read more... )