"You are so strong!"

I came down with a cold last weekend, a nasty throat infection that left me sore and raspy and without much energy. Too weak to enjoy the increasingly clement whether that's been creeping up on Ottawa this week - until today.

Throat still a little sore today, I nevertheless felt well enough this afternoon to head for the ( Read more... )

Helsinki, Moscow, Oslo ... eat your hearts out!
Ottawa is the world's real Winter Capital!

The weather tried to freeze him
    it tried its level best.
At a hundred degrees below zero,
    he buttoned up his vest.

- James Stevens, 'The Frozen Logger'

November 17, 2012, OTTAWA - With the official start to winter still more than a month away, the ( Read more... )

Sometimes (just sometimes), it seems as if there might be something to that whole karma idea. And today is one of those times.

I'm pretty terrible when it comes to gift-giving. Birthdays, Christmases, weddings ... I usually ignore the social obligations or do the stereotypical male thing of running around at the very last minute and finally coming ( Read more... )

Of Lust and Time, and My Bike's AgoniesExhausted, running on an hour's sleep the previous night, I left the office as I had reached it - on time (for once) - this afternoon. I crossed Spadina and staggered west, towards August and Queen, where had waited my trusty steed since Friday night, when I had opted to travel with Laura by streetcar, rather ( Read more... )