I saw these posters on almost every lamppost and telephone pole on Queen Street West on Boxing Day: The Chinese…
This Tuesday's Carnival of the Canucks will be hosted at Jim "BlogsCanada" Elve's blog, Officially Unofficial. If you have any…
Richard at Just a Gwai Lo linked to my earlier entry about what makes a date a date and linked…
It reads like something straight out of John Hughes' teen coming-of-age movies from the 80s: unpopular geek gets voted valedictorian…
Found via this MetaFilter post: In Defense of Scrooge, in which poor Ebenezer is viewed in a sympathetic, almost heroic,…
My two-year-old nephew Aidan is a genius at identifying the various engines and train cars from the television show Thomas…
On the evening of Christmas Day, after my sister and brother-in-law had taken their kids home and I'd finished helping…
Family tradition is for us to have a Christmas gathering for the extended family a couple of days after Christmas,…
In response to my last posting, a reader asked if I had "some wacky story in the spirit of your…
This is from last year (with a little polishing up), but it's worth repeating. While I do believe that some…