This fall has gone by entirely too fast, I just see my weeks coasting by like a train on its merry way to 2010 ( Read more... )

And again I left Montreal! Always this rush of goodbyes and hugs and kisses on the tops of heads. I ought to start treating people in Ottawa this way, banking on the fact that I perhaps won't see them for the next couple of weeks ( Read more... )

If only you could have seen me just now! Walking the two blocks from the bus stop to home, bit by the cruel Canadian winter, my mittened hands formed into fists and pumped as I walked faster and faster, my shoes making sounds in the snow: "chik chik chik chik chik chik.." I was a train out of control, "I'm crazy!" I said aloud as I went faster ( Read more... )

Few would ring in the new year glumly lost in a dark forest as I have.