What Makes Me Laugh

About 10 years ago I sent an e-mail to a group of friends from college asking them all for a list of the best books they had read that year. I did it to reconnect with friends who share a common interest (most of us were English Majors) and because I have trouble finding new [...]

If you are baffled by the title of this post, then you have some learnin’ to do about sports in the frozen land of the north. It’s the 97th Superbowl of Canada this weekend (otherwise known as the Grey Cup), and the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Montreal Alouettes (I know, I know, only Canadian teams would [...]

So, thanks to Kara and Travis, who mimicked the comments of spammers on my post about blogging spam (those wisecrackers), I had a very funny conversation with a spammer/hacker this week. On Tuesday, I received this e-mail that said it was from my nephew Blake: Hello, How are you doing today? I’m written you in tears [...]

I’m multitasking, which means that I’m writing this blog at the same time that I’m trying to cook at the same time that I’m chuckling about Doug’s crossword clues so I hope it comes out right. Last night Doug was doing the crossword puzzle from the Valierian, my hometown newspaper. I asked my parents for [...]

Anecdotage — old age, when a person may be prone to regale others with anecdotes about his past. [A humorous blend of anecdote and dotage.] Definition from freedictionary.com. I was listening to a podcast of This American Life about Frenemies (another hilarious word) when I heard it and I laughed out loud. Perfect. Absolutely perfect.

We’re watching television, and a commercial for the cartoon Snow White comes on. Doug says, completely deadpan, “I had the hots for Snow White.” “You did?” I laugh. “I never knew this! How old were you?” “Four or five,” he says. And I laugh some more.

Got a flu shot today (the regular kind) so had to post this photo my sister e-mailed me. It’s Swine Flu paranoia gone too far. And I had to laugh.

So, I went to see the movie Julie & Julia last Friday night. And I loved it. Mostly because the heroine is a blogger who achieves fame and fortune and it appealed to my fantasies, but also because I love to cook. I also despise the Joy of Cooking (my mother will be shocked and my husband will [...]

We turned off our television for the summer, and after going through withdrawals that included turning up the volume on a Steve Earle album and playing air guitar around the house for entertainment, I decided to get Netflix as a television substitute. Not that dancing around the house isn’t good for us, we agreed to [...]

I don’t know what to say. I’m astounded by this video. A friend of mine forwarded this on, and when I finally had time to watch, my mouth hung open in awe as shepherds and their dogs moved sheep around a hillside to make designs. Now this takes some work (and some serious time). I [...]