The Long And The (ahem!) Short Of It
In the world of the short, the chick with the stepstool is Queen. ~Erin Lee McBride, 2011 short (shôrt) 1. Having little length; not long. 2. Having little height; not tall. I’m short (that is, not...
View ArticleThe Question Is, What Is A Mahna Mahna?
Heard this in the car today: Now, am I the only one that hears the chorus, and can only think of: Honestly. Tell me. Whatever the case, I bet you’ll always think of it now. STATLER: Boo! WALDORF:...
View ArticleMy Granny: Kin of Gandalf?
Before anyone has the nerve to suggest that this is disrespectful, I just want to say that I loved my Granny more than anything. She was the first adult I became taller than. She sprayed me...
View ArticleMy Grandfather’s Pencils
Side door, 70 Thursfield Crescent, Leaside Toronto, Ontario My grandparents had lived at 70 Thursfield Crescent for most of my father’s life (he was born in 1933) and virtually all of my own. Their...
View ArticleBully For You!
Cry, cry for me crybaby! Cry! BULLY (n.) 1530s, originally “sweetheart,” applied to either sex, from Dutch ‘boel,’ “lover; brother,” probably a diminutive of Middle Dutch ‘broeder’ meaning “brother.”...
View ArticleGoodbye From My 10-Year-Old Self
Esther Williams never got water up her nose, or had to spit when she swam, like Sally, who didn’t like to get her face wet in the first place. And Esther Williams never splashed, either. Not even...
View Article♥ Love Letter To Canada ♥
Happy Canada Day, all! It’s our nation’s 146th birthday, and my 46th blog post (I’d like to claim I’d planned that). When I was an elementary school student, one of my favourite assignments was...
View Article♪ Don’t Blame It On The Sunshine ♫
“To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in...
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