While watching the final scenes of “Pursuit of Happyness” the building fire alarm went off. In my experience, building alarms are generally false alarms, but I always evacuate nonetheless. Except this time I smelled smoke. So we scurried around to grab our coat, boots, and two big bins full of our important papers and took [...]

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Apparently I’m the last person to read Elizabeth Hay’s “Late Nights on Air”, it’s already a #1 Canadian Bestseller and it picked up the 2007 Giller Prize. For the two of you who haven’t read it yet, I offer this glowing review.
Elizabeth Hay’s depiction of  life at Yellowknife’s remote CBC radio station is lyrical – [...]

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I took our friends visiting from Winnipeg out to the Museum of Civilization in Hull on Friday, and while the normal museum was pretty great (especially the Canada Hall), the special exhibit about Afghanistan was really incredible. Apparently the display was made possible due to the quick thinking on the part of Afghan museum curators [...]

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Kids (and apparently dogs) these days have no respect for hard-working cement-pourers who take pride in the smoothness of their sidewalks. This kind of miscreant youth behavior is clearly the result of cursive writing no longer being taught in schools.

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On our bike ride to Parliament Hill (which was AWESOME), Natasha and I discovered Remic Rapids, a little park area right near Parkdale, along the Ottawa River. As we came up over the hill, we saw a big stretch of standing stone statues. Lots of fun!

There were a surprising number of people down there. I’d [...]

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Natasha and I caught a Senators pre-season hockey game last night, a chance to check out the new team-members and watch the coach juggle new lines a little. As a pre-season game the stakes weren’t very high, but the Sens were a little scattered and timid about taking shots when opportunities presented themselves.
Right in the [...]

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I love the sunsets we’ve been getting all week! Lots of great rich colours, so beautiful! Natasha and I keep calling to eachother through the house – “Hey! Look out the window NOW!”
Who needs TV?
September 11th, 2009

September 13th, 2009

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For our anniversary, Natasha and I followed up on a hot tip from a couple of sources and managed to get in to Atelier Restaurant, which resulted in the singlemost exciting culinary experience that either of us have ever been a part of. I don’t think I can recommend it enough – Chef Marc Lepine [...]

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We hopped on our bikes a couple of times this weekend to go explore the paths that criss-cross the city. I know every inch of the routes in Aylmer and Hull but the Ottawa paths were still a mystery to me, so I did a bit of a refresher in Google Maps and Saturday we [...]

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While out last night wandering around Richmond with Natasha for an anniversary stroll, we stopped in at Thyme & Again to have a snack and discovered the Exposure Gallery which is just upstairs from all the cake and pies.
A lot of the people I know are investing in fancy cameras and taking photography courses and [...]

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