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Entries

01/25/2010: It Was Only a Sigh
01/24/2010: Hard Times Come Again No More
01/23/2010: Peddling Pieces of Truth
01/20/2010: She Went Out There and Bloody Did It
01/19/2010: Unseen Academicals
01/19/2010: When He Left
01/17/2010: I Work In A Thank You Note Culture
01/12/2010: View from the Edge
01/09/2010: Juliet, Naked
01/07/2010: Take Me Out to the Ball Game
01/07/2010: Any Road May Get You There
01/04/2010: There's a Lot to Be Said for a Comfort Zone
01/02/2010: The Bus
01/02/2010: Mailer Daemon
12/31/2009: On a Good Note
12/28/2009: Monday
12/27/2009: The Power of Less
12/27/2009: Out of Step
12/15/2009: Advent Etymology
12/09/2009: Ten Things to Think About Instead
12/06/2009: People We Love are in Trouble
12/06/2009: Sheba/Sheeba
12/05/2009: Keeping Christmas
12/05/2009: Let it Go
11/29/2009: Life is a Great Adventure. But Sometimes It Feels More Like a Grind
11/26/2009: Classic Conversation
11/26/2009: Misplaced Optimism
11/19/2009: The Wolf At Your Door
11/16/2009: Not So Meaningless Meditations
11/16/2009: How's Your Love Life?
11/14/2009: Come and Stay
11/14/2009: The Pleasure of Her Company
11/02/2009: A Hands On Act of Will
11/02/2009: In 1994
11/02/2009: Maple Leaf Monday
10/31/2009: Something Short of Spectacular
10/31/2009: Heart Beat, Repeat
10/29/2009: The CBC is a Blessing to Me
10/23/2009: Money's Been Avoiding Me
10/23/2009: Down the Rabbit Hole
10/20/2009: When You Hit Your Limit, It's Best to Stop
10/15/2009: Pressed Down, Shaken Together and Running Over
10/15/2009: Death Is Not The End
08/25/2009: A Death I'd Like to Meet (But Not Just Yet)
07/26/2009: Olly, Olly, Oxen Free
07/25/2009: His Name is Richard Valentine
07/25/2009: My Friends Are the Most Interesting People in the World
07/25/2009: Charmaine Holds Back the Rain
07/11/2009: Reflecting on Maslow
07/11/2009: Would You Like to Come to Dinner?
07/11/2009: The Art Crawl as Exploration of Identity
07/11/2009: A Genial Act of Engineering
06/14/2009: The Price of Butter, Revisited
06/14/2009: Don't Fence Me In
06/14/2009: The Price of Butter
05/18/2009: Free Weekend Passes
05/17/2009: Almost Long Enough
05/16/2009: Foundations of Personal Ecology
05/03/2009: All Sanity Depends on This
04/27/2009: Drinks with the Falconer
04/24/2009: Fantastic!
04/22/2009: Adopt a Word
04/20/2009: Short Trip to Nowhere
04/20/2009: Dead Leaves
04/12/2009: Enlarging the Box
04/12/2009: Situation Hopeless
04/12/2009: Rooted and Grounded in Love
04/06/2009: The Dundas Tennis Club is Padlocked!
04/05/2009: We Deserve Wildness
04/03/2009: Change Your Question, Change Your Life
03/28/2009: Interesting Times
03/01/2009: Ontario in the Creative Age
02/28/2009: Wholehearted is the Only Way to Go
02/16/2009: Do Your Worst
02/16/2009: Cookies and Conflict on the Home Front
02/16/2009: Deer Crossing
02/15/2009: The Mulberry Bush
02/06/2009: Coaching for the Morally Ambitious
02/06/2009: She Walked Alone and Knew What She Wanted
02/05/2009: No Longer Complicated
02/01/2009: Fire and Some Likely "I" Words
01/28/2009: Beginner's Luck
01/23/2009: Love a Line
01/19/2009: If I Can Just Get Through January
01/16/2009: Moonlight Sonata and the Mad Plunge
01/15/2009: Professor of Perspective
01/15/2009: In the Cave
01/09/2009: Joy in January
01/05/2009: Gleanings
01/05/2009: The Lump of Coal
12/28/2008: This Is My Living Faith
12/25/2008: In Keeping With the Situation
12/23/2008: Sometimes I'm Glad That I Had Sons
12/23/2008: Happiness is...
12/18/2008: If You're Not Chasing Your Wildest Dreams...
12/18/2008: Imagination and the Twelve Spiritual Powers
12/18/2008: The Tree at the Center of the World
12/16/2008: Not Lonely, Just Scared
12/16/2008: Puss in my Christmas Stocking
12/16/2008: Hygge and Other Holiday Cheer
12/15/2008: The Economy and Other Acts of Imagination
12/15/2008: Home for the Holidays
12/09/2008: The Coffee Break Fairies: Airie's Monologue
12/06/2008: One Extraordinary Year
12/06/2008: Season of Miracles and Snow Globes
12/06/2008: I Will Light A Candle Myself
12/03/2008: Never Quit on a Bad Day
11/25/2008: MeetUp, LinkedIn, Twitter and Other Gibberish
11/24/2008: Judgement Day
11/24/2008: Artists of Being Alive
11/20/2008: Party Spirits
11/20/2008: My Imagination Is Unruly
11/19/2008: Like Athena From the Head of Zeus
11/13/2008: One Woman's Quest
11/06/2008: And Then We Turned On the Lights
11/04/2008: The Spare Room
11/03/2008: The World Split Open
11/03/2008: Writing the Frame You See
11/02/2008: Skipping Stones
10/25/2008: The Sweet Spot
10/20/2008: Travel is a Disintegrating Experience
10/13/2008: The Straight and Narrow Way
10/13/2008: Sleeping Dogs
10/07/2008: I Remember Private T.E. Hayward
10/03/2008: Blame
10/02/2008: The Conversation
10/02/2008: Boredom Can Lead to Exercise
09/29/2008: Hostile Territory
09/29/2008: Intolerant
09/29/2008: Lancelot is the Local
09/24/2008: Norwegians Have Small Noses
09/24/2008: Normal
09/24/2008: Vorspiel
09/24/2008: From Trollstigen to the Sea
09/22/2008: To Be of Use
09/22/2008: All the World's a Stage
09/19/2008: Danish Design Beats French Country Hands Down
09/16/2008: Falling Over the Moon
09/16/2008: Shopping, Shoes and Champagne
09/16/2008: Fait du Beaux Rèves
09/13/2008: To Market, To Market to Buy A Blue Pig
09/12/2008: Big Blue
09/10/2008: Full House
09/09/2008: Resilience Week
09/09/2008: A Fine Estate
09/08/2008: Rocking My Baby to Sleep
09/08/2008: The Nothing
09/08/2008: The Pardon of Our Lady is Unavoidable
09/08/2008: Rituals and Reconciliation
09/07/2008: Put a Cow In It
09/07/2008: And So She Wanders
09/07/2008: Pardon
09/02/2008: Popeye and Poo
09/02/2008: Three Girls in A Convertible
09/02/2008: A Happy Family is a Beautiful Sight
08/30/2008: The Only Sensible Thing
08/30/2008: Three Gifts for the Road
08/30/2008: On the Left
08/28/2008: Ta an la go breath
08/27/2008: Over the Irish Sea
08/27/2008: Cork City is Squat Ugly
08/27/2008: In the Cornfield Stands an Airport
08/26/2008: I'm Taking a Flyer to Ireland
08/26/2008: The Edge of the World
08/24/2008: Creperie du Centre
08/24/2008: I Make Up My Day As I Go
08/23/2008: Mama et Moi
08/22/2008: The Malestroit Perspective
08/20/2008: Fest Noz
08/20/2008: Dinan
08/20/2008: Merlin's Forest
08/20/2008: McDonald's Is My Kind of Place
08/19/2008: Chopin is Growing on Me
08/19/2008: But You're Not One of Them
08/18/2008: Always and Never Alone
08/17/2008: Not Quite Like Home
08/16/2008: Life is Short. Transitions are Tough. Linlithgowians are Kind to Strangers.
08/15/2008: Kenny is Headed to Rwanda
08/15/2008: The Mafia Meets the Spaghetti Western at Stirling Bridge
08/15/2008: Victoria Prefers Blondes
08/15/2008: I Want to Get Into That Cow!
08/15/2008: St. Michael is Kind to Strangers
08/15/2008: Mostly Cloudy, Turning Sunny in Late Afternoon
08/13/2008: A Castle, A Candle, A Church
08/13/2008: For the Sake of Auld Lang Syne
08/13/2008: I'll Take the Easy Road
08/08/2008: Seize the Nap
08/08/2008: Stuff and Such
08/07/2008: Not as Good as It Will Be
08/06/2008: Loitering and the Public Good
08/06/2008: Circling Home
08/06/2008: I am a Fly, Half Drowning in a Glass of Milk
07/27/2008: Galata Sunset
07/26/2008: After the Rain
07/22/2008: The Mad Sultan Gives the Sack
07/21/2008: Back on the Bosphorus
07/19/2008: Wherever You Go, There You Are, And You Might As Well Enjoy Yourself
07/15/2008: A Woman Without Land is Disoriented
07/15/2008: Slipping Out of My Skin and Into Something a Little Less Comfortable
07/01/2008: Paradise Between Your Toes
06/27/2008: WHIMS Training Reminds Me of Her
06/27/2008: Phyllis Miller, Beginning and End
06/21/2008: A Day in the Life of Darlene These Days
06/17/2008: Istanbul Idle
06/04/2008: Objectionable Trash
06/04/2008: Paradise and Where to Find It
06/01/2008: Don't Mess with Your Eyebrows
06/01/2008: Laying Down Life Lines
06/01/2008: I Ken Your Father
05/31/2008: Mardi Gras Moose
05/31/2008: When Dreams Come True
05/22/2008: It's Not the Same
05/10/2008: What to Read While Bathing
05/05/2008: Parenting Between the Cracks
04/30/2008: Have You No Shame in the Marrow of Your Bones?
04/29/2008: Not As Mean As I'd Like To Be
04/27/2008: By-Passing Play
04/27/2008: Smokers and Friends
04/27/2008: Sharing Our Lunch
04/23/2008: Media Training for Artists and Bread Crumbs for Everyone Else
04/21/2008: Memory Lane
04/21/2008: Heaven
04/16/2008: The Thing Is, The Sun Gives You Age Spots
04/15/2008: Happiness is a Game of Pick Up Sticks
04/14/2008: Truly, Madly, Deeply
04/10/2008: Thoughtfully Pulling Your Hair
04/08/2008: Birthdays and Blessings and Friends
04/03/2008: I Feel a Little Nothing Coming On
03/31/2008: You Are Invited to An Original Writing Workshop
03/31/2008: The Green Fuse
03/26/2008: A Woman in Her Prime
03/25/2008: Making Fun
03/25/2008: A Magic-Bean Buyer
03/24/2008: The Erosion of a Snowbank is a Slow and Dirty Business
03/19/2008: Je ne parle pas francais
03/18/2008: Circle Game
03/16/2008: Wise Woman on the Roof
03/16/2008: The Art of Revelation
03/16/2008: Give a Girl a Lift
03/14/2008: Living Vicariously Gets You Nowhere
03/14/2008: Mind Storm
03/12/2008: Mine!
03/12/2008: The Toastmaster
03/12/2008: Hooky
03/12/2008: Charmaniac
03/11/2008: Bank Gives Away Fortunes For Free
03/11/2008: Truffles
03/09/2008: A Splendid Isolation
03/08/2008: Let There Be
03/08/2008: Blessing, Cursing and Poetry on Demand
03/08/2008: Tenderness and the Outcomes of Care
03/07/2008: Minnie Falls Out of Her World and Into the Hand of God
03/05/2008: Paperwork and the Fine Art of Procrastination
03/05/2008: Darlene of the Dirty Dishes
03/04/2008: Bar Graph Beauty
03/03/2008: One Day Sale on Sunshine
03/02/2008: Go Fetch
03/01/2008: Lamentations
03/01/2008: Solitary Saturday Night
02/28/2008: Darlene, Are You Fulfilling Your Destiny?
02/28/2008: My Mercedes Benz
02/25/2008: An Awfully Big Adventure
02/24/2008: The High Cost of Ignorance, and Artificial Intelligence
02/21/2008: Bent
02/20/2008: The Sensible Choice
02/20/2008: If There Are Zombies, That Changes Everything
02/20/2008: Step Into the Moment and Into the Light
02/19/2008: The Charms of the Slow Decline
02/19/2008: Playing So the Stains Won't Show
02/19/2008: If Words Would Write the Cheque
02/14/2008: Lydia's Love Letter
02/14/2008: You Are So Beautiful, Too Bad You Are a Fool
02/13/2008: In the Presence of Stars
02/13/2008: Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living
02/11/2008: Seven Wise Ways to Love
02/11/2008: Fire and Ice
02/11/2008: Love Song
02/09/2008: Mavis Sets Things Straight
02/08/2008: Land of Goshen
02/08/2008: Preach, Pray, Don't Die
02/08/2008: Journeying Mercies
02/03/2008: Weather Alert
02/02/2008: Sad (A Solo Show)
01/31/2008: The Power of Yes
01/30/2008: By a Nose
01/29/2008: Copenhagen
01/29/2008: Hummingbird
01/28/2008: Re-entry
01/26/2008: Attracted to Genius
01/26/2008: Heartsome
01/26/2008: Freggio
01/26/2008: Space is Big
01/26/2008: The Ants Go Marching Two by Two
01/26/2008: You Have to Start Somewhere
01/25/2008: Sir Edmund and James
01/25/2008: Blood and Kisses
01/25/2008: The Downriver Decision
01/24/2008: Light a Penny Candle
01/24/2008: Saturday Morning Market
01/23/2008: London Calling
01/23/2008: Inflight Blog January 17, 2008
01/15/2008: Box of Crayons
01/14/2008: I Am
01/12/2008: This Little Pig Goes to Market
01/12/2008: You Have No Messages
01/10/2008: Dark Angel
01/09/2008: To Do or Not to Do
01/08/2008: What Makes a Good Day Good?
01/06/2008: Caravan of Despair
01/06/2008: Bloomsbury Bound
01/06/2008: Closest To My Heart
01/03/2008: In My Defense
01/02/2008: InspiraTO
12/31/2007: Dressing for the Occasion
12/30/2007: Tails of Industry and Family
12/29/2007: Trust Only Movement
12/29/2007: On the Dark Side
12/29/2007: Worry
12/27/2007: Fear
12/25/2007: That's When the Adventure Begins
12/24/2007: Entertaining Ghosts on Christmas Eve
12/16/2007: Goodwill Door to Door
12/16/2007: Vestal Virgins
12/13/2007: Well and Good
12/12/2007: Tell Me Your Secrets
12/12/2007: Darlene Has No Hope
12/12/2007: My Clients: Too Good to Keep Quiet
12/10/2007: Sometimes You're A Hummingbird, Sometimes You're A Slug
12/08/2007: Mama Had A Great Pair of Legs
12/08/2007: Will My Children Someday Long For Me?
12/08/2007: I Will Not Die an Unlived Life
12/08/2007: I Don't Do Christmas Cards
12/07/2007: Shreds of Darlene Russell
12/06/2007: Deer Stalking
12/05/2007: So This is Morning
12/04/2007: Santini and the Cell Phone
12/03/2007: Charmaine Comes In From the Cold
12/03/2007: The Accidental
12/02/2007: Speaking in Tongues
12/02/2007: Happiness Hates the Timid. So Does Science
12/02/2007: Content (and yet)
11/19/2007: Peter's Take
11/19/2007: Floyd Passed Peacefully Into the Presence of the Lord
11/12/2007: I Want to See Your Eyes
11/12/2007: I love that Charmaine
11/05/2007: Mirror, Mirror
11/02/2007: Loose Ends
11/01/2007: A Home Where Love Lives
10/31/2007: Like She's Somebody
10/31/2007: I am a CH
10/31/2007: What’s A Name Worth?
10/26/2007: But For My Fool
10/25/2007: 48 Hour Migraine
10/21/2007: Procrastination as Prelude to Creation
10/18/2007: It Begins With the Drumming
10/17/2007: Playing in the Vein
10/16/2007: The Middle of My Life (part one): I am Standing in the Exact Middle of My Life
10/16/2007: The Middle of My Life (part two): Pathway to Possibility
10/16/2007: The Middle of My Life (part three): Grandmother's List
10/16/2007: The Middle of My Life (part four): Chalk on the Blackboard
10/16/2007: Lost in Space
10/14/2007: Cleavage
10/14/2007: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
10/07/2007: Fraught
10/07/2007: A Sensual Experience of Life
10/04/2007: Armed and Dangerous
09/26/2007: I'm Just a Guy
09/25/2007: Phone Salesman Amazes Crowd and Makes Me Cry
09/25/2007: Writing and Sonic Rituals
09/19/2007: Looking Up
09/16/2007: "You Don't Eat Desert" (From the quotable Lydia collection)
09/15/2007: Little Orange Bug Lights Up His World
09/15/2007: Just Because You Wander, Doesn't Mean You're Lost
09/15/2007: Into the Pond
09/13/2007: Condreamial Companion
09/11/2007: Drop Me a Line
09/11/2007: Ambient
09/06/2007: Free
09/05/2007: On My Kitchen Table
09/01/2007: Extra Crispy
08/24/2007: The Binge
08/24/2007: Following My Own Trail
08/24/2007: Westdale Wanders
08/21/2007: Appalled
08/20/2007: Lydia Rolls Over
08/20/2007: Lydia is the Living Oracle of Truth
08/15/2007: No Doubt You Are Calling To Wish Me Happy Birthday
08/12/2007: Signature Living
08/01/2007: Save the Day! It's a Free Human Be-In
08/01/2007: We Were Going to Have a Picnic
07/29/2007: Doing Nothing is Harder Than it Looks
07/29/2007: Mind Trips and the Wake Up Fairy
07/29/2007: When I Was Five
07/26/2007: I'm a Teacher
07/26/2007: When You Were Nine
07/25/2007: The Cat Comes Back
07/20/2007: Charmaine Hangs Her Legs Out
07/20/2007: Questing
07/19/2007: Joy in my Backyard
07/17/2007: Doing Nothing, Resisting Everything and Other Useful Strategies
07/08/2007: It's Because of My Eyebrows
07/04/2007: O Canada We Stand on Thee
06/28/2007: Writing the Blues
06/24/2007: Sense and Nonsense
06/24/2007: Dancing in the Constellations
06/24/2007: The Love That Stretches Us
06/23/2007: Charmaine and the Human Be-In
06/22/2007: It's Hard to Listen for Very Long Without Learning Something
06/15/2007: Butter Tarts and Other Sweets
06/10/2007: Where in the World?
06/10/2007: Kick Butt and Cuddle
06/06/2007: Wild Design
06/05/2007: Merv Moves In
05/24/2007: I Have a Long History with Dairy Queen
05/21/2007: My Mom Turned 70 Today
05/10/2007: Love Spilling Over
05/10/2007: Eat, Pray, Love
05/06/2007: Lost in Space
05/06/2007: Still Life
05/06/2007: Note to Self
05/02/2007: I am Paying Attention to Small Beauties
05/01/2007: When I Was Two, My Mother Ran Away to Join the Circus
04/28/2007: How Did It Feel?
04/28/2007: Wild Thing
04/23/2007: You Don't Need to Change
04/22/2007: One-Woman Shows Are the Lowest Form of Theater
04/22/2007: Life is Tall
04/22/2007: Love Is
04/20/2007: Step Into It
04/20/2007: Charmaine Says
04/18/2007: The History of a Legendary Notebook
04/17/2007: Morning Prayer
04/16/2007: Chaos, Order, the Shape of Things
04/15/2007: The Originals
04/15/2007: Stranger Conversations Overheard
04/15/2007: Home Sense
04/13/2007: Please Come to Boston in the Springtime
04/13/2007: On Failure
04/13/2007: Holding On and Letting Go
04/12/2007: When Your Eyes Are Tired
04/08/2007: With a Little Help From My Friends
04/04/2007: Before the Dawn of Time, a Different Incantation
04/04/2007: I Love What I Do!
04/04/2007: What I Knew Then
03/27/2007: Clean Dream
03/19/2007: BrainGym
03/17/2007: Green
03/13/2007: Ice Melts
03/13/2007: Get Out of Town
03/10/2007: It's Never Too Late to Learn (or Teach) Something New
03/08/2007: “Come all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.”
03/05/2007: Childhood Baggage Comes in Handy
03/05/2007: Morning Glory
03/01/2007: Yesterday I was Superwoman
02/26/2007: All You Need is a Little Compassion and a Punching Bag
02/25/2007: Design Discontent
02/22/2007: Love Can Turn Your Day Around
02/22/2007: News Alert - Darlene Feels Surge of Happiness Working Out
02/20/2007: The Commute
02/18/2007: Field of Possibilities
02/17/2007: The Database Queen
02/17/2007: The Divine Heather Joy
02/16/2007: More about Stephanie Plum...
02/16/2007: Compelling Characters Carry the Story
02/15/2007: In My Shoes
02/13/2007: Where's Waldo?
02/13/2007: Celebrating Love and Loss on Valentine's Day Eve
02/12/2007: Walking On A Snowy Winter Day
02/12/2007: Thank God It's Monday!
02/07/2007: Write Your Name
02/07/2007: Closet Country
01/28/2007: You Don’t Have to Live Marginally Anymore
01/25/2007: You Learn a Lot About Yourself…
01/19/2007: The Blog that Begins with a Beet