Attila the Mum

The sky was so amazing on my drive back home from the Handmade Market.  Huge clouds tinted pink on the bottom, massive dark clouds with snow streamers, snow flakes spinning in the air making everything look dream-like, and the wind making everything move, sweep, swirl, dance, and tear.  I desperately wanted to capture the beauty,…

I had a friend in university who when faced with a deadline would have an uncontrollable urge to clean her personal space, and everyone else’s space if they would allow her.  It wasn’t just vacuuming and dusting, it was the cleaning to end all cleaning.  Grout was scrubbed, ceilings washed, windows taken apart to get…

Sometimes, when I am walking and I am not thinking anything specific, my mind floods with things to contemplate.  Some of the thoughts bandying about in my skull this morning were: nature vs. nurture and the things people say, stupid or otherwise, about that; whether each different culture has a different genetic map that lead…

Do you ever have a day where you feel you left some vital part of you still in bed?  It is not even ‘waking up on the wrong side’.  No matter how deep you dig you just can’t find that usual part of your personality.  Today I seem to have misplaced my sense of humour….

I am in the midst of preparing for my first Christmas Handmade Market (November 22-24, Fielding Estate Winery, Beamsville).  I am not exactly sure what to expect with volume of people and setting up space, but I still have a couple of weeks to prepare.  It is a bit of a learning curve on many…

Well, I have now been to New York City and I had the opportunity to visit both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the MoMa.  It was very fun to have some complete art geek moments and see some of the art I studied up close and personal (much to the consternation of those set…

My poor son…  As a special thing to celebrate his soon to be sixteenth year, he and I have traveled to New York City.  Today, our first full day here, I am dragging him through the Met.  I am an art history geek.  I entered one of the galleries, saw a portrait by Rembrandt in…

My Thanksgiving weekend has been filled with the usual family, friends, food, and hang out time.   There have been a couple things that have made this weekend standout in and amongst the years of holidays.  First would be that this weekend was also my in-laws 5oth anniversary.  Pretty amazing being married fifty years.  What…

I love my cemetery.  I figure that is probably an odd thing to say, but it is true.  The cemetery we live close to is this magnificent green space.  Huge old trees, rolling terrain, soft grass, beautiful vistas.  I walk my dog there everyday.  My children learned their letters from finding them on the stones,…

My son occasionally accompanies me on my morning dog walks.  When he comes along he does most of the talking, telling me of this video game or another.  I will admit here, and I have said to him, I don’t understand half of what he is telling me with platforms and third-person shooters and the…