Day 447: FoodShare — good, healthy food for all

This morning, within two city blocks, I passed the following:  a Bangladeshi video store, a Mexican restaurant, a Portuguese bakery, an African cafe, a Vietnamese restaurant, a Caribbean grocery, and a Croatian credit union. Toronto in a nutshell. Gotta love it.
The reason I was in this particular neighbourhood was to volunteer for the morning at [...]

Day 446: Busking for change

Volunteers may have hearts of gold but some need a little help in the marketing department, if you know what I’m saying. The reason I mention this is because when I stopped by a booth set up downtown for War Child Canada, I practically had to talk the volunteer there into asking me for a donation.
They [...]

Day 445: All that jazz

What could be more romantic than doing a good deed with your significant other? … Okay, lots of things.
But it was very cool to do something nice for someone together with my husband – and on our anniversary, to boot.
Sorry for the late posting, btw, but said anniversary took me out of town this weekend [...]

Day 444: Phone a friend

Sometimes just getting an email or a telephone message from someone I haven’t heard from in a while can make my day.
I kept that in mind today as I called someone that I haven’t spoken with in ages. We’re not close friends but he’s someone I’d hate to lose touch with and I always get [...]

Day 443: Playing ketchup

I was at the grocery store today with a $20 bill in my pocket. I planned to pick up something for the food bank bin at the front of the store but by the time I’d grabbed the items I’d gone there for, I wasn’t sure if I had enough money left.
At first, I thought [...]

Day 442: Extra, extra, read all about it

You know how your mother always told you not to run with scissors, or other risky childhood high jinks, because “you could lose an eye.” I think I might have come across the original inspiration for that dire warning.
Let me back up. Today being Wednesday, my newspaper friend Mr. Singh was dutifully at his post [...]

Day 441: Litter lady lite

It had been a while since I strolled around the neighbourhood, so I though it was high time today. It’s amazing what you miss as the weeks go by. New fences have gone up, one’s about to fall down and a couple of trees have been pruned back within an inch of their lives.
But some [...]

Day 440: Falling slowly

You know how you sometimes see an event unfold before you in slow motion? Like your glass of red wine falling through mid-air toward your white carpet? (Or worse, your friend’s white carpet?) That’s what happened to me this morning but, sadly, no wine was involved.
I had just climbed the stairs from the subway platform [...]

Day 439: Mirror, mirror not on the wall

I’ve had a lot of special “moments” with my car, a 1991 Sunbird. There was the time I pressed the horn and nothing happened. Several times — usually in winter — when I’ve turned the key and nothing happened. Oh, and how could I forget the time I stepped on the brake and nothing happened.
But [...]

Day 438: Freaky Friday

Why the title, you ask? Because I encountered so much goodwill and random kindness going on today, I’d have sworn it was a dream … or Christmas.
Getting off the bus this morning, I counted no less than seven people ahead of me either saying thank you, wishing the driver good morning or suggesting she [...]