by Erin MacNair | Apr 30, 2014 | Truly Embarrassing Tales, Welcome
I was hoping for a routine visit, a “there’s nothing really wrong with your filling” type of visit. I was also hoping this wouldn’t take long because I had the remains of a head cold. As anyone can tell you, jamming large implements into your mouth while sucking...
by Erin MacNair | Apr 28, 2014 | Random Bits, Welcome
My son and I discuss the double meanings of words all the time. The word that came up this day was wake: leaving someone in your wake, the wake of a wave, a wake relating to death. “A wake is sort of like a party for the dead person,” I said. He looked at me,...
by Erin MacNair | Apr 10, 2014 | Truly Embarrassing Tales, Welcome
“Absolutely not”, he said, shooting me down. I found myself pleading. “But I REALLY want to go,” I said, with that whiney intonation reserved for irritating/ desperate people, one I’m sure I employed as a teenager. My husband gave me the stern look.“ You will be twice...
by Erin MacNair | Mar 28, 2014 | Random Bits, Welcome
It was just a gentle “toot toot,” and nothing more, but it almost got us killed. In Vancouver, in order to make a left turn you must foist yourself on the mercy of oncoming traffic; you let the light turn yellow, and sheepishly scurry to the other side while cursing...
by Erin MacNair | Mar 18, 2014 | The Baffling, Welcome
Oh, glorious Sky Mall Magazine! Sweet abandoner of airplane boredom. Take me into thine fold of trashy junk I cannot live without. Thank you for always being there, Sky Mall. Just when I thought I would die of asphyxiation, my knees jammed against the seat in front of...
by Erin MacNair | Feb 26, 2014 | Truly Embarrassing Tales, Welcome
“…Then you mix three parts of copper in, no wait, actually two parts copper, one part silver…..” our instructor shook her head a little as she tried to retrieve the information. This particular instructor was teaching us metalsmithing; she was something of a local...
