Ordinary Canary

I have lost my wallet. Have you seen it? The last place I saw it was on my desk at work. I noticed it missing before I got on the subway home. (Thankfully, I keep my subway and train passes separately.) Despite this extraordinarily limited scope of places, it has [...]

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It’s been an amazingly full weekend.  On Friday, I started off right by reorganizing my office at work.  I’ve long felt unproductive in there, because my desk was oriented towards the wall, leaving my back to the office.  In order to see what was going on, I had to sit with my feet propped up [...]

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This weekend, the same day that someone tried to blow up a car in Times Square, I dragged my bike into Manhattan in order to particulate in the Boro Bike tour, which is a 42 mile bike ride though the five boros of New York City.  The ride starts in lower Manhattan, below Wall [...]

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Last night I dreamed of knitting as a type of personal hell; the stitch was stockinette, which references a project I’ve been working on that makes me dislike knitting.  Stockinette, stockinette, rows and rows of endless, never changing stockinette.
But stockinette is the perfect stitch for dreams.  In dreams, your brain often goes over the same [...]

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Dear Squirrel Who Keeps Eating My Home-grown Strawberries,
On the day of the Reckoning, you’re going to be first in line.
The store is down the street. Get your own.
Love,
Me

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These pictures are crappy quality because I took them with my cell phone. However, they wouldn’t exist otherwise, so there.
First, the one woman who has zero business teaching children about cooking, Ms. Paula “I use butter because I can” Deen, discovered in the book section that caters to dieting at a Bed, Bath and [...]

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Except for this one.
It made me laugh. I hope it makes you laugh too.
Happy Sunday!

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My Big Irishman and myself are off to Jamaica for a long weekend.  I admit that my brain is already there, waiting for my body to catch up.  The weather has been fairly warm, by New York mid-winter standards, but I’ve still had to wear a coat.  My feet are aching for warm air and [...]

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It is a sad and busy season for me, so I have not been updating much.  It’s Christmas, which has actually been going better for me than any other Christmas that I can remember, but is also a sad season because it’s just about a year after my mom’s death.
So, to avoid the bigger issues, [...]

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No, I’m not going Dutch, I’m living Dutch.
Today I found myself on a bicycle with the wind in my face on the way to a farmer’s market.  There, with some linguistic help from my good friend Helen, I managed to buy uncut cheese (which I’d never seen before, except in magazine pictures), magic tea and [...]

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