Dream of the amateur photographer
I had hoped I would have had the chance to go on a photography adventure today, before posting this, but I just haven’t had the energy. Work has been wonderfully […]
A brief history of flight
My inner child loves glue and paint, and assembling things. When I was about 12 or so, I got a model Dodge truck for Christmas, which I promptly assembled (badly) […]
Friends are like pockets
“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they are always there.” I got that in an email a long, long time ago from a […]
We don’t believe in distance
I promised you a post about homesickness, and I wrote a good 7 pages in my word processor before realizing I couldn’t post it. I wanted to write about a […]
“An impatience with toast crumbs and flossing”
It’s evening here now. I suppose it has been for a while, if you consider “evening” to be any time after sunset. I’m sipping a mojito at my kitchen table, […]
Things you can tell just by looking at her
A while ago, I had the pleasure of meeting one of Calgary’s best photographers when he came into the bookstore to discuss the possibility of displaying some of his photos […]
A family of boomerangs
Today was cleaning day, not that I made it very far. I started with the top shelf of my bookcase and made it all the way to the bag of […]
“This shirt is just an old faded piece of cotton”
When I was very little, I had this blanket. Actually, it was a quilt… A crib-sized quilt that I kept on my bed for years, until there wasn’t much of […]
A dollar a wrinkle…
Well, it’s officially the 23rd now, and officially my birthday. I’m so exhausted, sleep might attack at any moment. Today (yesterday, I guess) was an unbelievably long day… It was […]
The greatest love affair
Recently, I was chatting with a customer at work about Dashiell Hammett books and the wonderfully vintage covers adorning the copies we carry. Having never read Hammett’s work, I didn’t […]
