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Archive for August, 2007

to the islands

On a hot day, when the wind blows up from the south, Toronto gets covered in smog. I’ve been told it is the air from the States and the big cities like Detroit and Chicago, I am not sure how true that is but it would give Canadians another reason to feel cast [...]

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Lucky

When I was in my third year of university I often found four-leaf clovers. Maybe I looked for them more, but they seemed to pop up, and I’d pick them. I found so many I gave some away as presents. Today I found my first one since then, outside the Toronto University [...]

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Out west

Yesterday afternoon, on the way home from Price Choppers, I saw a raccoon asleep in a tree with its arm outstretched like it was very relaxed. It was in a big oak tree and was lying in the part where the branches start. The woman we were with, a Torontonian who arrived from [...]

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A letter home

I’ve changed my mind and decided to come back here after an interlude at the new place – I think I still like my picture of the dogwoods and the white. It matches my  optimism after a brief slump which I blame on jet-lag (it is still a fair enough excuse). I feel [...]

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new place

I have a new site
edit: but I think i will stay here.  Which is a typical decision making pattern for me.  pretty much.

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