You know, my Mom has always been a great one for folk wisdom. And one of the sayings she was always fond of is this: you have to take the good with the bad. Which I always thought was backwards. Didn't she mean that although life was generally good, you had to accept that some bad things will happen? That you had to be prepared to swallow a little bit of bitter mixed in with all that was sweet? I didn't let it bother me too much, though. I just put it down to artistic licence or idiomatic evolution or... More »

So the other day, I'm driving back to my sister's North Toronto home from Princess Margaret Hospital where my Mom is a patient and I was working on the concept for a future Losing It post which would require some photos of Toronto street scenes. So I pulled out my trusty iPhone and snapped some shots.This one, I snapped while stopped at the lights in front of the hospital:Nice, right? So I figured, as I drive along, I should try and snap a few shots of some of the  nice spots on the drive home. And I got these really... More »