Thirty-six years ago this month, I was 19 years old and had just finished my first year at the University of Toronto.  While I had “fooled around” some during high school, being away at university had allowed me to expand my sexual horizons somewhat, and I had been seeing, on a fairly regular basis, a singer/actor who was at that time playing in a ( Read more... )

Well it's been quite a week. Having a stroke, no matter how minor, seems to change your life somewhat ( Read more... )

So it is Daylight Savings Time.

Click here for the "write" timeI got to thinking about all the things we can do with time:  Save time; Spend time; Waste time; Make time; Keep time; Lose time.....the list is endless ( Read more... )

To get your latitude and longitude, click on your city on this site: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/full.htmlRead more... )

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A writer friend and I have been playing a game where you take a familiar foreign phrase and by adding, subtracting or changing just one letter, come up with a new foreign phrase and an appropriate translation.

Here are my submissions so far:

cult de sac:  a religious group whose adherents have no faith in the hereafter

a la model:  pie accompanied by ( Read more... )

Okay, here I am, jumping on the bandwagon. I'm not promising that I will faithfully record all of my doings, feelings, ideas, peeves, hopes and dreams in here, but at least when I post comments to others' journals I will not appear as "anonymous," which strikes me as being timid at worst, and a protected source like Deep Throat at best ( Read more... )