February goes like a bat out of hell. That's what Rob said back in college. Before you were settled in after Christmas, you were stuck with term papers, studying for exams and then you left. A week Sunday is March. It's going to be over. The thing I dislike more each year, winter, is going to be …

Thank God for Family Day. It was great. As we sat around in our pajamas, dilly dallying with unconsciousness, trying to kill of the last of our colds until mid-afternoon when we got to watch the mailman deliver the mail. How delicious to have a holiday that is not applicable to the Federal civil …

I have to admit. I have a general idea of the relationship between brass monkey and extreme cold but not the specific source of the idiom. Apparently there are a number of meanings. Thank heavens for wikipedia which contains a vast array of entertaining and authoritative speculation. Regardless … read more »

No more days off or days where you think you really should be off. It's like coming off a drug. January. Plans need to be made to avoid the day when the urge to hibernate meets the desire to get to know Mr Christie better. Plans to keep up the housework, to get out and about, to pay off. The sun …

This surely is the unnamed holiday. The shadow twin of Boxing Day, the orphaned Friday stuck between that holiday with a hangover and a weekend. I will suit up and make my way to work but will there be work to meet me there? There likely will be an emptiness, desks without jockeys, voice mail …

What else is there to say? The year has been a good one and, even with the recession looming, I look ahead with naive optimism cut with a dash of the early on set of being an old grouch. We traveled a bit but not enough. I could have eaten more types of meat but when isn't that the case. For …

Tony McKegney and Bruce Cockburn seen within an hour and a block of each other.

Bagged, I tell ya. Walking around the mall last night with a ten year old who was walking around the mall making sensible selections for a bunch of people as I handed out five dollar bills at the proper moments without flinching, discussing how Rihanna's "Shut Up And Drive" has echos of Gary …

We have actually planned this season out well. Or maybe we have just had it planned for us. However it happened, here we are still looking at the stretch from Monday to Thursday and there are no trips on the road to relatives required, there are no "official" office parties or clinky-drinkies left …