My father (seated center) and his band, The Morticians, in the ruins of Moxham’s Castle (1966)
Today an old friend of the family posted these photos of my father and his band, The Morticians, on Facebook. They were taken in the mid to late 60’s. I’ve heard a lot about [...]
A while back I went out for dinner with a friend and we somehow got on the topic of milk. They couldn’t believe me when I told them that we get our milk in bags back in Canada.
They also couldn’t believe that we actually had a milk man who would come in the morning [...]
Our other expat friends gathered together at our house for dinner on Christmas Day
The hardest part about life as an expat is missing your family and friends, I don’t think there is an expat out there who can argue that… and in the age of Twitter, Facebook, and instant messengers, it’s [...]
We all know I’m terrible for taking long, agonizing walks down Memory Lane, right? Well… I’m at it again!
Out of the blue a few days ago I started humming the theme song to The Littlest Hobo. When I told my husband about it he had never heard of the show so I started singing the [...]
Baby remember my name!
FAME!!
Ok, normally I’m not one for remakes. I heard they are remaking Girls Just Wanna Have Fun and Footloose, which makes me go uuuuugh, and I’m absolutely dreading the day they even TRY to remake a great one like Dirty Dancing.
I can’t help it, I am really looking forward to this one. [...]
This photo of me and my husband was taken almost 9 years ago in Paris. We felt so grown up but look at us, we were babies! I’d just turned 25 the week before and I was a wife! We were so cute though, still in that stage where we called each other Mr. and [...]
Yesterday was the five year anniversary of this blog. It started out on May 2, 2004 when I was anxiously awaiting my upcoming trip to Canada. I’d not been home in almost four years so I was long overdue. Now here I am, five years later… looking back on it like it was just yesterday!
In [...]
I saw this on Facebook and thought I’d put it on here instead, I love these memory lane type of memes! Man, I’ve been meme-ing a lot lately! Forgive me!
**** 15 YEARS AGO (1994) **** 1) How old were you? — 18 2) Who were you dating? – [...]
shoppers and crystal tree by wvs
Every day I visit the website daily dose of imagery because I have serious photo envy, and because I like to torture myself by looking at photos of Toronto and getting homesick.
Yesterday he posted this photo of one of the big shopping centers in downtown Toronto [...]
When I was 15 years old I met a boy. He was 16, tall (6’3, which towered over my rather short 5’3 frame), had long hair, wore a lot of black and … we hated each other. From the minute we met we did nothing but bicker and fight. I thought he was a sarcastic [...]
I was just thinking about some upcoming redecoration that is going to be taking place here and I got to thinking about the house and how it’s changed again. I started wondering if I’d ever shared our bathroom renovations. I searched the blog for toilet, bathroom renovation, bathroom before and after and a few other [...]
Today Xander had to go in to the office for a few minutes. He is on a new project with the government in Dordrecht and the first day he was there he went to hunt and gather for lunch. He phoned me telling me that there was a quilt shop around the corner, and a [...]
When I was out with my friend Penny the other day we were talking about Rotterdam and how it’s changed because of World War II, and it got me to thinking about how different things might be here had it all never happened.
You see, during the war, the Nazis bombed the city center to bits. [...]
This was me once, when I was 15 years old, in 9th grade.
My boyfriend’s name was Aaron Tuck, I have no idea where he is now but wherever it is I’m sure he’s causing lots of heartache to some poor woman who loves him desperately regardless.
I thought I was massively fat, even though I’d love [...]
I took this photo a little over a year ago when I was in the city center with friends. I was excited to see the Christmas lights going up and wondering what the new year would bring. Life in the Netherlands was starting to come together for me, I was making friends [...]
This week’s theme is skinny, frig! What am I going to put for that? It’s not like I’ve ever been skinny. At least that’s what the kids at school told me! Ever since I was a child I was always the chubby kid. When I look back at photos of myself when I was [...]
A few years ago, actually… more like 15 years ago (ugh!) my friend Peggi and I went out for a drive and were looking for some nice places to take pics. We drove about 15 minutes away from home and found these really nice waterfalls tucked in off an old dirt road. [...]
Last year I wrote a blog about The Best Day of Summer 1996 from an old blog entry. I was looking back to where I was 10 years before.
To sum it up, where I was 10 years before was spending the day driving around the Cabot Trail with my friend Peggi [...]
I can’t believe that 14 years ago today I was spending my first day as a high school graduate. Has it really been that long?
That means that 14 years ago yesterday was my high school graduation ceremony. It was about a thousand degrees out and I had a t-shirt and shorts on under that [...]
A while back a friend invited me to Facebook and I joined to see what it was. Since then I’ve been completely addicted to it because it’s like a time machine! I’ve gotten in touch with so many old friends, and even some family. I’ve caught up with over 50 friends from my graduating class and [...]
Tunnels of Blood (The Saga of Darren Shan)
by Darren Shan
