Life In Pleasantville
Food, Travel, Life
Are Americans welcome in Canada right now? Yes. Let me tell you why I’m the right person to answer that For the past fifteen years, half of my readers here have come from the United States, and I love that. I think many of you land here assuming I’m American, and honestly, on the surface …
Was ‘Despacito’ REALLY the song of the summer for 2017? Every road trip beings with a moment of reflection and introspection, doesn’t it? The status of ‘Despacito’ weighed on my mind and I knew just who to debate it with. Our girls getaway to Chateau Montebello, was all about what really matters. Like the pros …
You probably landed here by googling something like “Is the Mont Tremblant snowshoe and fondue hard?” or “Will I plummet to my death off the side of a mountain in the dark on my quest for cheese?”. I’m happy to say the answer to both of these questions is no. When I first committed my family of four …
Work. Work. Work. Carpool. Laundry. Work. Groceries. Clean. Work. Sigh. Life occasionally gets stalled in the mundane lane and one day you realize the most important words you’ve exchanged with your spouse in weeks are, “We need milk.” My husband and I fell into this trap and although we knew we needed to reconnect, we couldn’t figure …
I am not zen. I live by the work hard, play harder philosophy. Zen moments—that is moments where I am in the moment—are few and far between. Typically when I’m working I’m dreaming of playing and vice versa. The consequence is that I’m slightly frenetic. (I can hear the sniggering from here of those that …
Canadians know how to throw a party, and we don’t let a little thing like -21C (that’s -6F for our American friends) stop us. After all, if we restricted our celebrations to the days we felt all ten toes and our ears weren’t red, some parts of Canada would only get out for nine weeks …
For those of us who came of age during the Freddy Krueger and “Hollywood Chainsaw Hooker” era – I’m guessing the person who green-lit that movie is now working as the set designer for a musical comedy remake of Hamlet at a backwoods dinner theatre – we see shadows where there aren’t any, and hear …
The French have an expression that goes a little something like this, “Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?” Okay, fine maybe it’s Patti Labelle, but it’s an expression I like to toss out to my husband occasionally. We are after all, married, and in love, and we all need a little cootchie coo every once …
