Okay, I'm done.

Don't get me wrong. I love my family to pieces. But I can only take so many diatribes against gay rights, so many bitter critiques of the minutiae of Obama's demeanor, so much nonsensical speculation about some apparent liberal plot to destroy America.

Give me Canada. Give me the CBC. Give me my bike and Frenchy's and the farmers' market and people who recognize the comedy in Fox News trying to sell itself as "fair and balanced."

spring. clean.

It was a brilliant and hyper-productive spring day here in Halifax. The Boy is on a plane headed towards Tokyo and, being on my own in the apartment for the next month, I busied myself with upgrading it from "squalid" to "messy." I'll be visiting family for the next week but check back on Monday 4 May because I'll be diving into some inner and outer spring cleaning and I'll need you to be my cheerleaders. It has been an intense, beautiful, enlightening and sometimes excruciating winter and it's time to sweep away the dust bunnies, air out the stagnant places and polish all the ugly bits until they shine.

Green smoothie + chocolate chip cookie - breakfast of chamipions

It wasn't easy but I came out the other end of Second Year in one piece. I actually plan to get some decent content up here, so if you haven't given up on me by now, please stick with me a little longer. Just don't expect much this week - I have loose ends to tie up, job applications to send out and a Boy to spend QT with before he heads off for two months to bum around Asia and then write the Bar. But soon! Soon I will once again be the sporadic blogger you all know and love.

xoxo
ST