Each month I share photos from one of the parks in Toronto to show my readers what our landscape looks like throughout the year. This is the twelfth instalment of this series. Due to reader demand, it will not be the final one! Keep an eye out for another update on our two damaged tree… Read More
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6 Weird Things About Writing
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Have you ever taken a moment to think about how weird the writing process can be? When it’s done well, the end result can be characters and settings that were so well-developed it’s hard to remember they don’t actually exist in our world. That in an of itself is just a little strange (in a… Read More
What I Read in 2020
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In January of 2013, I began blogging once a year about everything I’d read that previous year. This tradition began when my dad asked me how many books I’ve read in my entire lifetime. I couldn’t begin to give him an answer to that question, but it did make me decide to start keeping track… Read More
Search Engine Questions From 2020
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Every year I take the last two weeks of December off from serious blogging to recharge. One of the lighthearted topics I save for the end of this month has to do with answering search engine questions. The phrases and sentences in bold below are the most amusing, thought-provoking queries that have sent new readers… Read More
A Photo Essay of Toronto in December
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Each month I share photos from one of the parks in Toronto to show my readers what our landscape looks like throughout the year. This is the eleventh instalment of this series. Click on February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, and November to read the earlier posts. Other than the amount of snow on the… Read More
Creepy Christmas Poems
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Someone, or possibly more than one person, keeps finding this blog by searching for creepy Christmas poems. If they ever read this post, I hope they know it was written in direct response to the multiple queries that have popped up in my analytics. I more or less stopped celebrating Christmas years ago when I… Read More
Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: An Average Day in My Life
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Hosted by Long and Short Reviews. Click here to read everyone else’s replies to this week’s question and here to see the full list of topics for the year. My answer to this prompt certainly isn’t what I was expecting it to be when I first saw it about eleven months ago, but I’m sure… Read More
A Photo Essay of Toronto in November
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Each month I share photos from one of the parks in Toronto to show my readers what our landscape looks like throughout the year. This is the tenth instalment of this series and will be a bit longer than usual. Click on February, March, April, May, June July, August, September, and October to read the earlier posts. Welcome to… Read More
Thankful for What We Have: A Review of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
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A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is a 1973 animated Thanksgiving film about Charlie Brown, the famous animated character from the Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, throwing an impromptu Thanksgiving dinner for all of his friends. The other films in this holiday trilogy in it include A Charlie Brown Christmas from 1965 and It’s the… Read More
Thanksgiving Dishes I Can’t Cook
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American Thanksgiving is only a few days away, so I thought I’d go a little off-topic and share something that wouldn’t normally fit into the scope of this blog. I’m a perfectly serviceable baker and cook. The food I whip up isn’t fancy and it won’t appear on the cover of any magazine, but it… Read More
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