Dinner at Tutti Matti
A few weeks ago, Chef Alida Solomon from Tutti Matti gave a cooking demo at our local St. Andrew’s Market, where she cooked baby heirloom tomatoes with garlic, olive oil, salt and fresh basil to make a delicious sauce for pasta. The fates conspired against getting a large pot of water to the boil that [...]
GNO with Pat, Gail, Julie & Julia
Last night was a GNO – Girls’ Night Out – with my friends Pat and Gail. We had plenty to celebrate: Gail’s birthday was just past, Pat’s divorce just came through, and we realized that we all met on a day just about 30 years ago when we lived in the same university residence. We [...]
Sometimes, the bear eats you
Sometimes I think that my friends have much more interesting jobs that I do: This is taken by a friend who works for Fisheries and Oceans Canada, on a trip with an icebreaker in the Arctic. In my job, I only see this metaphorically.
My 5km
If you know me in person, you know that I’m not much of an athlete, but I decided to do a 5km walk this past weekend as part of the Scotiabank marathon to raise money for a friend’s pet charity, the Fort York Food Bank. Amazingly, I walked the 5km in 48 minutes. Even more [...]
Venus and Mars
Men and women communicate differently, there is no doubt. For example, Damir goes running with our friend Susan most mornings at the ungodly hour of 6:15am: she runs over from her place about 6 blocks away, then they go off for 5-8km together. Yesterday, I asked him how his run went, and he said that [...]
Reggae Run
My friend Susan, who has been living with rheumatoid arthritis for over 25 years, will be running another half-marathon this year to raise money for the Arthritis Society and all of the great research that they do to keep people like her running (or at least walking). I’ve written previously about her last run, the [...]
Making the world smaller with Skype
I love this time of day, late afternoon, when I check my buddy list on Skype and see the early birds in Australia and the night owls in Europe all on line, plus the usual contingent of those on my own continent. Makes me feel like I can put my arms around the whole world, [...]
Our host, the zombie
Last night’s Hallowe’en soiree was great fun, especially considering that most people were in costume. I didn’t have the time or inclination to come up with ideas and wrestle Damir into a costume, so we went as ourselves, but there were a lot of great ideas there. Our host, taking time out of his day [...]
Preparing for Hallowe’en
I don’t usually make a big deal about Hallowe’en — in fact, for years, I was one of those people who sat around in the dark at home so that no one would knock on my door. Okay, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but I haven’t attended a lot of Hallowe’en parties in my [...]
Staying with friends
One of the great things about the jobs that I used to have, which required a lot of business travel, is that I now have a network of people who I know around the world. Some of them are more friends than just business acquaintances, which has the extra benefit of providing a cheap place [...]
