I am always delighted by the opportunity to travel, to explore new places, taste new food, click my phone into airplane mode and be absolutely unreachable until I land. On my most recent trip, I reignited my fascination with vending machines. More than a dozen years ago, the Sprinkles Cupcake vending machine tickled my taste [...]
According to the journals she left behind, with strict instructions not to publish until “no living person would be hurt” by her comments, Lucy Maude Montgomery always knew she’d be famous one day. “I believe in myself,” she wrote. “And I struggled on alone, in secrecy and silence. I never told my ambitions and efforts [...]
We saw a humpback whale breach in the distance and considered that spectacular display a fine reward for our journey across the Bay of Fundy. We all applauded with glee and readied ourselves for the journey home, thinking that was the show we'd all come to see. It turned out to be just the opening [...]
According to one legend, Peggy's Cove, a pretty little fishing village on the south shore of Nova Scotia, owes its name to the lone survivor of a shipwreck, a little girl rescued and raised by the fishermen who found her. Maybe. But I think that cove belongs to another feisty Peggy, an octogenarian grandma who [...]
Did you ever misread a situation so dramatically it lead you to question your ability to read signs at all? I did several times last week. A lonely looking man approached my daughters and me as we were sitting at a rooftop establishment waiting for sunset. "Is it okay if I sit over here?" he [...]