Living Creatively, Living the Dream
Last night, I was lying in bed trying to stay awake, waiting for Spider-Man to come home from a friends while Bones was tucked soundly in her bed…when I read a tweet saying that there was half an hour left Continue reading Dare to Dream…
There was a time, when the room was filled with row after row, pot after pot, of fragrant flowers. A simpler time, when beautiful buds couldn’t be shipped from warm climates the way they can today…when owning a greenhouse was Continue reading Dean’s Flowers…
A number of months back, a friend posted a photo of a painting on social media with the comment, “Let me know if this looks like your dog?” and I was all “HEY…is that Zucchini!?” And it was. My amazingly Continue reading Painting Zucchini…by Halifax artist, Lisa Sullivan
I’m not good with change. That might be a bit of an understatement. And…considering my life has been nothing but change in the last few years…I’ve been forced, more than once, to stand there…completely vulnerable…not having a sweet clue how Continue reading The big flight…
She’s moved out a few times now. The last four years of university…stuffing the car every September with all of her worldly possessions as we’d head down the highway for the drop off. You’d think I’d be used to it. Continue reading And she’s off…
You guys are AWESOME! Sometimes…I don’t think you’re paying attention. I throw out a question or comment on social media and you can almost hear a pin drop. (Here’s the sound of a pin dropping.) Point is…nothing…nada…zip…zilch! I may get Continue reading CHEESE!
I did this blogging thing wrong. It happens with most things I attempt…I go out there full-tilt with little research and a crap-ton of passion (that’s like crap x 2,240 pounds worth of passion!) I was told I should write…not just Continue reading Blissdom Canada…here I come!
There’s something about having to purchase yet another French/English dictionary…having to buy yet another math set and the umpteen three-ring binders that seem to fall apart year after year…that sends me a little over the edge. I remember a red Continue reading School supplies…Me to We…
Summer has been a little bit of a bust around here. The kids have been busy with various sports and trying to arrange any time to get all three of them the same place at the same time is an Continue reading Summer Adventures…
I’m the prettiest Mommy in the whole wide world. Spider-Man told me. He was three and a half. Sitting on the couch with a serious look on his face, he took his two little hands, placed them on my cheeks…and Continue reading Keeping him safe…
It started with this tweet from hope cottage. And…like all things I find thought-provoking and interesting on Twitter…I hit the Re-Tweet button. I was having a fairly busy day in the office and while the Tweet caught my interest, making Continue reading My Big Day Downtown – how I doubled my money and gave it all back.
I could tell you a whole lot about Liam and Steph, of Applehead Studios…except the thing is, they’re so darn busy they can’t answer my email questionnaire. So…I’m going to make a few things up. Liam, somewhere in his late Continue reading Applehead Studios…
[quicktime]https://www.curtainsareopen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/icebucket.mov[/quicktime] I got a real kick out of watching Spider-Man complete his ALS Ice Bucket Challenge this weekend. Maybe it was the look on his face as the cold water and ice was dumped over his head, the fact Continue reading ALS Ice Bucket Challenge…
I knew my dog was having fairly extensive surgery. What I hadn’t anticipated…in any way…was her deep desire to tell me “what had happened” when I gathered her up from the vet the next day. Quite some time back, Zuke Continue reading Telling a sad tale…
I swear one of these days my house is going to collapse into the ant colony it’s been built upon. Little ants will take over, carry me off to their leader where they’ll pay me back for the years of Continue reading Air Raid Siren…
I thought the Laundromat was one of the places you were supposed to meet men? And at two fifty a wash…rich men at that! I arrived at the Brite ‘N Kleen in Truro. There to move Bones out of residence Continue reading Brite ‘N Kleen…
I was standing in line at a store when an elderly woman in front of me was trying to locate her receipt in order to return a pair of pyjamas. “I thought for sure I’d put it in here but Continue reading Do you show compassion, kindness, respect and patience?
Last week, I calculated my hours spent watching TV this year by using an app created by the brilliant designer Alex Cican. Apparently, for someone who claims to “never watch TV,” I spent 9 days 8 hours and 48 minutes Continue reading Celebrating Canadian TV on Netflix…
NHL players are regular people just like you and me! I think I’d have a difficult time convincing Spider-Man of that fact as he simply can’t get past the awe of those who’ve made it “to the show.” However, when Continue reading Joe DiPenta…giving back…
“One day, you’ll appreciate the time to yourself,” my divorce lawyer exclaimed. I thought she was out of her mind! Her words…they’d stay with me as I’d stand in the window every second weekend. After happy kisses and good-bye hugs…I’d Continue reading Time to myself…