Yes, I live in a community where they celebrate Halloween with a bark in the park. And yes, this pirate-hatted boxer played his role well. He did not once wag his tail. Mind you, his owner took his role seriously also.

WHAT DO SQUIRRELS DO WHEN THEY ARE NOT SCURRYING?

WHY THEY SLEEP, OF COURSE!

Found on a Post-it from a long time ago:

The Creative Process

First Insight

Then Saturation

Then Incubation

Then Illumination

Then Verification

Then What?

This blogging business is hard work...especially when one's life is so full. But there's always a story. My friend's father was recently admitted (put in sounds so...harsh) to a home. He is in his 90's and has various illness including a mild form of dementia. His granddaughter and her Lebanese boyfriend visited last week and he had a coherent conversation with the boyfriend in Arabic. No one knows when or where he learned Arabic. He has lived in Quebec all his life...The mind is a miracle...one can only conjecture that he had a friend who spoke Arabic in his childhood...None of the family has ever heard him speak Arabic before.