A byootaful Life

I just wanted to say thank you everyone for your comments on my previous post.  I was hoping I’d have some good news to share by now, but unfortunately Puddy is still missing. I’ve been checking my emails religiously, hoping to hear that it’s all good, she came home sheepishly and is now curled up [...]

You’ve got to wonder what Australia did to tick off Mother Nature because only a few weeks after the disastrous flooding in Queensland, a category 5 cyclone called Yasi is headed for North Queensland and it’s estimated to be the worst cyclone Australia has ever seen – even worse than cyclone Tracy that hit Darwin [...]

I was all set to write up my second New York post but instead I’ve been glued to my laptop, following Twitter updates and online updates about the flooding in Queensland. It is devastating – 8 people are confirmed dead (4 of whom are children) and there are about 72 people missing… and they expect [...]

I heard a rumour (okay, so it was actually the lady on the weather channel) that snow was expected in downtown Vancouver late this week, so Thursday night I was on “snow watch”. “Snow watch” entailed me lying all warm and snug in bed, playing with my phone to stay awake, with the blinds open [...]

It took me a long time to create a Facebook account. It was just something I wasn’t interested in, even though all my friends were on it. They’d ask me to add them and I’d just shrug and say I didn’t have an account. After a while, I opened one just to see what it [...]