My family’s pretty Scottish, despite the fact that the most recently anyone in my family tree actually lived in Scotland was around the middle of the 19th century. When the Scots on my mother’s side of the family — all Catholic, Gaelic-speaking Highlanders — migrated to what is now Nova Scotia, they lived in little [...]
Categories: Heritage
Tagged: Cape Breton, Duncan MacLeod, family, Gaelic, genealogy, history, language, migration, names, Nova Scotia, Scotland
After watching Monsters Vs. Aliens, Al and I were playing with some of his toys.
Me (holding the head of a robot dinosaur): Hey guys!
Al (holding a transformer in one hand and a generic Voltron-like robot in the other): Hey!
Me: What’s your name?
Al: My name Robot.
Me: OK. And how about you? What’s your name?
Al: [...]
Categories: Life
Tagged: Alisdair, conversations, parenthood
Last night, after a good workout at the gym, Leen and I were on our way home when in the course of a conversation about post-workout close physical proximity I joked, “Well, it’s not like you have cooties.”
I expected her to ask me something like, “What the heck are cooties?” But instead she said, [...]
Categories: Miscellaneous