I’d been holding back the hypervintilation for most of the morning. I’d stepped over and around things – did the Stanley meeting Livingstone in my bedroom as I finally located a pair of tights, pried open the vanity drawer that didn’t have its handle, because it STILL needs another coat of paint before the handle…
We have an indoor/outdoor basement in our new home. Built in the mid-to-late 1800s, the cellar sports a gravel and dirt floor, parts of which are in various states of damp depending on how quickly the snow is melting. The cats are… ecstatic. As indoor cats, their new proximity to ‘outdoors’ has them doing their…
In the middle of moving day. I was at the new house, already unpacking. David was back at the old house to help lead the movers in a second rendition of Should it stay or should it go. “Hello?” “…Hi…” He had a tone. “What’s wrong?!?” “Well, Minuit seems to be…” “What? Seems to be…
WARNING: there is too much information in this post. For the past week, I’ve been searching for the box into which I deposited the contents of my bedside table. I have a stack of books + my e-reader in that box. That e-reader has become my Holy Grail. I’ve got the latest Kim Harrison book…
A buck, a doe and a fawn stand in the headlights of an oncoming Mack truck. Our family took possession of the new house on March 4th. By the next day, we had broken it. 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, after spending 12 hours demolishing things, I stood at the entrance to the common bathroom and started…
If you have to paint 20 kitchen cupboard doors with space to dry only 8 flat at a time, and each door needs to be primed with super-adherent primer that must have 2-4 hours drying time before covering the cupboards (back and front) with at least two coats of furniture paint, and if the furniture…
In honour of our new house purchase and attending renovations, I’m sharing an earlier bit from my show How To Leave Adolescence at 30 – written and performed in 1999, shortly after we bought our very first home in Toronto. Buy a House Upon returning from our honeymoon, David and I realize that for the…
My ass felt colder than usual when I got out of the car. When I made it inside and took off my coat – I reached around to feel the seat of my pants. The seat of my pants was gone. My entire right cheek was exposed. My shoulders slumped. My pants were giving up…
Yesterday, we began renovations on our new home. Today, my neck, back and achilles tendons no longer work. Eight years ago, when we started the same process on our present home, I don’t remember feeling like this. I remember holding the mini-jack hammer and cackling with joy as I exposed the brick in our kitchen….
I should have been prepared. It’s not like I’m new to this. I’ve done shows before – I’ve suffered from Post-Show Depression. But this time around – there’s a 6 piece set + carry-on of emotional baggage that I hadn’t counted on. As an actor – for concentrated amounts of time – your cast…