Living Creatively, Living the Dream
If a woman struts around in her lingerie, going about her business with cameras on her twenty four seven while people watch… making money… it’s porn right? Meet Mark. For the last 20 days he’s become a porn star! Alright he’s not a porn star but Continue reading Quite a sight in tighty whites…
She landed with a thump and a scream… followed by “ohmygodohmygodohmygod” repeatedly as I rushed to her side… unable to tell where the pain was coming from. Turns out… I’d never seen someone with the wind knocked out of them. Continue reading Falling in love…
Pretty sure if I tried real hard I could hack up a fur ball. In the morning, as I lay in bed, there’s a faint “mew” of a kitten coming from my chest. I think he lives in there. Seems I’ll be hanging out on Continue reading It’s not the cough that carries you off…
I want the days back where my little guy tried to do snow angels on the ice. Back when we fitted him with new gear, threw a pair of skates on his feet and fired him out on the slippery, cold surface with a pat Continue reading Oh deer…
My girlfriend, C.A., went through a divorce about a year before her 40th birthday. It was what she wanted, yet her pain ran deep. Something I never truly understood…until my own. When her birthday rolled around, her dream of going to New York was in the Continue reading Enough with fools in tinfoil…
My dog’s been walking around in a skeleton costume for three days since I pulled out all the Halloween shit. The fact that my dog is dressed as a skeleton and that I have two Rubbermaid containers full of Halloween crap makes me think I Continue reading In her bones…
Holy crap… the Harvard educated Winkelvoss twins suing Zuckerberg over the creation of Facebook (although they’ve already won a 65 million dollar settlement and stock options) are Hot! Rich, young, smart AND hot! Is it wrong I’m looking at younger men? The Continue reading You know you’re bored when…
I received a phone call an hour ago excitedly congratulating me for winning a trip to the Bahamas… a ballot I’d filled out at the Maritime Fall Fair last weekend. I said “you’re kidding” and he replied with “we don’t kid at Continue reading Bahama mama…
At the end of the book… after Piggy’d been killed, after Ralph tried in vain to be the leader but simply didn’t have the skills, when Jack the bully and Roger the once shy kid terrified the rest of the boys by donning war Continue reading Miner miracles…
There’s a new pair of shoes in my repertoire!!! For a few years I’ve switched between my Blundstones and my Fit Flops. Both are like dear old friends when I slip into them…having not seen them for months. I’m in my Flops from May Continue reading Filling my big shoes…
Yesterday we celebrated Thanksgiving but the thing is… we don’t have pilgrims. We’re not celebrating the early settlers for discovering the New World like they do in the States. We take one day a year to stuff ourselves full of turkey and Continue reading Every day without the turkey…
I wasn’t much older than my youngest the first time I went to the Maritime Fall Fair. My Poppy was in town visiting us for Mom’s birthday and we took in what would become a wonderful tradition. The horses were the big draw for Continue reading Fair thee well…
I have this girlfriend who bakes cakes. And when I say cakes… what I really mean to say is masterpieces… as she truly is a CAKE ARTIST!!! We met years ago working at Granite Springs Golf Club. The Bunnykins mug and bowl displayed in Continue reading Patti-Cakes…
My mom likes tea. Tetley. She’ll pour a number of cups throughout the day… and drink about half of each. With powdered milk. She boils the kettle, puts two tea bags in the teapot, pours the water into the pot and puts Continue reading Tea cozy…
For my 40th birthday a few years ago, my girlfriends gave me a Pandora charm bracelet. A Danish designed bracelet famous for it’s “twist-on” charms handcrafted in sterling silver or 14K gold… many containing semi-precious and precious stones. Each charm on my bracelet represents something Continue reading My pandora…
Last night we won the Amazing Race! We met at a local hotel to plan our attack over pre-drinking drinks and fantastic appies. Some of my favorite people in one room. We were pumped for this event and nothing could stop us except the Continue reading Jet lag…
The holidays are coming and it has me thinking of all of the wonderful things I can get for folks I love. Like coffee for instance… but not instant for instance… there’s nothing better than the smell of fresh ground coffee in Continue reading Thinkin’ of you…
WARNING… ADULT CONTENT IN THIS POST. When I was a teenager in the early eighties, there was an event referred to as “gang bang”. The name became “popularized” in adult entertainment films at the time and in 1995 the “World’s Biggest Gang Bang” was Continue reading Protect our children…
Remember waiting anxiously for the Christmas Wish Book? Wanting to be the first to open its pages. The glossy paper smelling fresh and… papery! Turning down the corners of the pages you especially liked, reading descriptions of items you could only imagine and circling the pictures of the Continue reading Christmas wish book…
The wonderful thing about having this blog is being able to look back and remember what I’ve been up to as my memory is failing. Little-One, Buff and the two Buff Juniors headed back to Dubai but unfortunately didn’t take Continue reading Queen’s update vi…