Any time I visit the Children’s Hospital it is a major reality check. Most days I feel like I am having a difficult time managing a “spirited” two year old, a full time job, two mischievous dogs, and all with no time. And yet, visiting the children hospital forces you to see a completely different [...]
Archive > August 2007
Central Park
The photo above is of Central Park in New York taken from midway up the Rockefeller Center. As I stood and stared at the massive 800 acre green space that is Central Park I couldn’t help but wonder how New York managed to hold onto and preserve such a large chunk of Manhattan as park [...]
Didgeridoo
One of my favourite sounds is the deep and mysterious sound that the didgeridoo makes; it’s very primal and it appeals to the same side of me that relaxes whenever I hear OM. The above shot is one of many photos that I took while in Central Park in New York City. Central Park is [...]
The Pee of Life
Many of you are familiar with Stryder and his pee of death. For those that aren’t: Stryder’s pee is so lethal that he just needs to pee one on something green and it withers and dies within hours. For this reason he is not allowed in the raised backyard (a.k.a. the garden) unsupervised and when [...]
The Spoils
The new stove certainly does make a mean batch of cookies (though it made the dough a little softer than I would make it). The word “convection” is synonymous for “bake super fast at the temperature it’s supposed to bake at.” On the old stove I had to crank it to 425F (the highest it [...]
