How have you been faring during these days of pandemic lockdown, friends? We’ve been very lucky in that we’ve had the means and ability to hunker down and wait things out, and after seven wee...
http://danigirl.ca/blog/2020/04/26/in-which-she-shares-her-secret-passion-for-tarot-cards/
Longtime readers of the blog know that we’ve been obsessed with sea glass for many, many years. I was first introduced to the idea when we visited Bar Harbor, way back when we were a famil...
http://danigirl.ca/blog/2019/08/12/the-one-with-the-radioactive-sea-glass/
I was standing in the cereal aisle at Loblaws, having a conversation with their in-house dietitian about making thoughtful, nutritious donations to local food banks during the holidays. We were c...
I have been on a Fredrick Backman kick this year, reading A Man Called Ove and Britt-Marie Was Here and Beartown more or less in succession. Have you read any of his books? They’re quirky ...
Once upon a time, whenever something of significance happened in my life, I made sense of it by blogging about it. Though I don’t blog as regularly or as intimately as I used to, I still feel t...
http://danigirl.ca/blog/2017/09/19/saying-goodbye-to-papa-lou/
It’s a weeknight and Beloved is working late, which almost never happens. I’m in charge of making school lunches, which happens as seldom as I’m able to get away with, and I realize that we...
http://danigirl.ca/blog/2017/03/07/the-one-with-the-banana-bread/
I mentioned in an earlier post that it’s been such a hectic autumn that I’ve dropped the ball on blogging pretty much entirely. Case in point? I wrote this in early October and clean forgot t...
http://danigirl.ca/blog/2016/11/28/in-which-willie-gets-the-sister-he-never-knew-he-wanted/
It’s time to throw back the curtain on a fun new project the family has been working on through the summer! We’ve been selected as participants in IKEA’s Sustainable Living project. Through...
http://danigirl.ca/blog/2016/09/14/the-ikea-sustainability-project/
We’ve been meaning to do something about the sofa for quite some time now. Funny, not too long ago I came across the blog post I wrote in 2008 when we bought it. It’s been a great couch – o...
We’ve arrived at the end of the first week of the great kitchen renovation project with sanity (barely) intact. In case you were wondering, it takes about a full week to adapt to the idea of no...
http://danigirl.ca/blog/2016/05/07/kitchen-renovation-phase-two-destruction-and-chaos/
We’d just paid the deposit and signed the contract on our kitchen renovation, with work scheduled to begin in late May, when the contractor sent me an email. “We’ve had an opening and our n...
http://danigirl.ca/blog/2016/05/02/kitchen-remodel-phase-one-in-which-the-schedule-gets-accelerated/
As it goes, 1966 was a pretty interesting year. The first episodes of Star Trek and Batman aired on TV, and the Oscar for Best Picture went to The Sound of Music. Truman Capote published In Cold ...
http://danigirl.ca/blog/2016/02/19/happy-50th-wedding-anniversary-to-granny-and-papa-lou/
Last we saw our heroine, she had braved the wilds of Google and Amazon, wandered the badlands of “available to US residents only”, faced down the demons of bleeding-edge technology and come o...
Through October and November this year, I became increasingly intrigued by Google’s efforts to make virtual reality (VR) accessible to the masses through its Google Cardboard device. “Experie...
http://danigirl.ca/blog/2015/12/27/a-non-tech-moms-guide-to-google-cardboard-part-one-get-cardboard/
I have lost track of the number of times I’ve recycled this post, but it somehow just doesn’t feel like Christmas until I’ve shared it again. Besides, with a new job and a new circle of fri...
http://danigirl.ca/blog/2015/12/06/christmas-traditions-ftw-the-reindeer-rant/
In 2013, I had the pleasure of meeting and photographing a charming extended family on a farm just south of town. It was truly one of the warmest, most fun days of portraits and play in the five ...
http://danigirl.ca/blog/2015/11/14/world-diabetes-day-dylans-story/
I wish I’d noticed much earlier that a pair of robins were busy building a nest in our porch light fixture. The top of the fixture had blown off in an autumn wind storm, but since it is in an a...
http://danigirl.ca/blog/2015/05/06/five-things-i-did-not-know-about-robins/
I posted a rant on Facebook the other day in response to one of those quotey photo card things that basically said “I’m happy my childhood was filled with imagination and bruises instead of a...
http://danigirl.ca/blog/2015/03/27/national-we-day-2015-is-coming/
We’ve had our dining room chairs for 15 years now. The summer we got married, we got them from the As-Is bin at Ikea, I know because the words “as is” are still written on the underside of ...
http://danigirl.ca/blog/2014/07/27/weekend-project-re-upholstering-the-dining-room-chairs/
I started to rant about this on Facebook, but the ensuing conversation in my kitchen inspired me to bring it back to the blog. Waaaaaaaaay back in 2006, I ranted my displeasure at being offered t...
http://danigirl.ca/blog/2014/04/21/mcdonalds-finally-does-away-with-girl-and-boy-toy-question/