My Way of Living [03/19/17] 

  • We are the Canaries in the mine, will you be next?

    The other day I was overcome with the amount of perfume a woman was wearing in a store, and I wrote this blog post titled Scents and Sensibility, describing how badly it affected me. It wasn’t that I didn’t like her scent, it was the rash it caused on my face. It struck a nerve, with many readers writing in to say that they too …

  • Bootsie’s most un-excellent adventure

    Bootsie had a rather harrowing experience yesterday afternoon, and now he’s quietly licking his paws, but he’s fine. It was a beautiful afternoon, the sun fooled us into thinking that the snow might disappear in the near future, the birds were chirping, and the dog walkers were doing laps in the neighbourhood. Our front yard for t…

  • It's for the birds

    The other afternoon we heard a screeching outside, rough and ragged, shrill. It went on for a few minutes. The crows must be mad at Bootsie, I remember telling Gar. They sure are giving him heck. And they sound like they are recovering from Laryngitis.Then just yesterday when I was busy at my drafting desk, I heard the same shrill…

  • The Selfie project

    Many photographers start out by taking photos of flowers. Flowers are easy, soft, pretty colors, they pretty much do what you ask of them.And they rarely take a bad photo.Somewhere along the line you decide to try “real people.”Your family, your friends, your spouse.Eventually most of them shy away from the camera when the…