There have been two fatal stabbings on my street in the last two months. One a block to the South of me, and one a block to the North of me. In the most recent stabbing, on December 20th, most news sources reported:

Police would only say that one of the victims was a man and couldn’t confirm if the other was male or female.

My phone started ( Read more... )

When my Tender Beast and I were new and tender to each other, I described how I liked to cook recreationally. I love food, and love the art of creation in cooking. I look at recipes for inspiration, but I seldom follow one all the way; adjusting it to my tastes, my diet (vegan/vegetarian) and what I have available at the time. Cooking is play for ( Read more... )

I remember a time that i thought my parents were obsessed with heat. We use to get told off for so much as thinking about opening the door in the winter. My parents had stuffed things that they would put by the base of doors to stop draughts, and there was a heavy curtain that hung over the back door in the winter. I admit I was not terribly ( Read more... )

I'm having a total love-hate affair with our furnace. The love part is all about heat. I mean, i do own a full set of wool long underwear, but it is nice to be warm without multiple additional layers of clothing, stolen from other animals. Also, typing with gloves on sucks. I would prefer more body heat, but at the moment my preferred source of ( Read more... )

Our house is not a house that believes in cupboards. It believes in shelves, so everything you own is out and visible. In the bathroom, our secrets are all out in the open. Prescription drugs sit on display along with my very fabulous shaving cream. Anti-anxiety medication keeps company with stainless steal storage containers ( Read more... )

When i was 19 I moved to Toronto (hereafter referred to as "the city"). I swore i hated cities, swore i hated the noise and the pollution,but i was excited about the job and certain i could last the one year of the contract. As it turns out, the job did not last the year, but the city did. I fell in love with the vibrancy of the city, reveled in ( Read more... )