May 3rd, 2009

Ryan Allen Endorses: BRIO Toy Trains

Most of my family on my mother’s side live in Nova Scotia–Halifax, to be exact. While I was born in Nova Scotia I grew up in Ontario, only visiting NS a few times when I was young. When I did visit it was, of course, lovely to see my family but I also always looked forward to playing with the BRIO toy train set at my grandmother’s.
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April 9th, 2009

London Proper

I’m in London England, wearing a suit, typing on my MacBook, and drinking a white mocha from Starbucks; the rub is, I’m doing this in the lobby of a hostel. I never thought that would happen.

March 31st, 2009

The Food Bank

Ladies and Gentlemen, please let me take a minute to write to you about the Food Bank.

The food bank helps people–families; children–get basic food supplies in the case of emergency and desperate need. In Ottawa thousands of people rely on the food bank every month, and in your local city I’m sure the [...]

March 29th, 2009

Children’s Books

At dinner on Friday, poop was a topic of conversation for a good ten minutes. Present was young Levin, who despite not being able to speak was still able to communicate that he was making a poop. This reminded me of the classic children’s book Everyone Poops.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Everyone Poops is not known [...]

March 28th, 2009

Kitchen Things

While in Europe I think it makes sense to collect a few European kitchen products to make cooking more enjoyable. Indeed one of my first set of purchases when I arrived was kitchen related: new utensils, new cutting boards, new knives etc. Most of these items will stay here when I leave but some [...]

February 16th, 2009

Favourite Sweater

Every time I wear my favourite sweater I always think “I’d like to write about that on my web log”. So today I am. Today I am wearing my favourite sweater.