Jill Browne, from home and away

Sunday, March 20, 2011 Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Big buzz on Facebook, friends waiting for this big moon. Mother Nature was not kind to us. The skies were cloudy all day, all night. Was there a big moon up there? I’ll take it on faith.

Saturday, March 19, 2011 Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Big hurrah, there was more grit in the box at the fire station. In fact, it was even sandy and not just the sharp little pebbles I posted about before. This winter. Man. It’s snowed and thawed and snowed and thawed more times than I can remember […]

Friday, March 18, 2011 Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Woo ee, date night. Or so they say!

Thursday, March 17, 2011 Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada It was indeed St. Patrick’s Day. I didn’t do a darn thing about it. Didn’t wear green, didn’t drink green beer, didn’t put on a silly hat that says, “Kiss me, I’m Irish”. Didn’t eat Irish stew, didn’t try dancing without moving my arms, didn’t dye my […]

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada The poor weather was good luck for us: we got parking on the street in Kensington. Let me repeat: we got parking on the street in Kensington. I actually avoid Kensington, even though it’s one of Calgary’s more interesting commercial spots, because of the parking. Yes, I […]

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Ate at Mango Shiva on a Saturday night before the theatre recently. This is a restaurant right downtown, on Stephen Avenue Mall. The food, very good. Reasonable price, especially compared to some of the other restaurants in the downtown area. But it took a long time between […]

Monday, March 14, 2011 Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada I’ve been going to Alberta Theatre Projects (ATP) for years and years with two friends. The plays are always thought-provoking. Saw one of this year’s new playRites plays, by Mieko Ouchi. It was a kind of Raymond Chandler detective story with a distinctly Canadian element. Good play. […]

Sunday, March 13, 2011 Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Would have been a good day to take in a cheap movie if I had only thought of it in time! Now that I have NetFlix it’s easier to see a movie at home, but NetFlix in Canada has a lot of gaps. How long are video […]

Saturday, March 12, 2011 Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Even though the tall buildings on the north side of the Calgary Tower are crowding out some of the view, it’s still a great ride to sit at the top of the tower and eat your dinner while looking out the window watching Calgary and southern Alberta […]

Friday, March 11, 2011 Home: Calgary, Alberta, Canada If you fly into Calgary on Air Canada, you often find yourself at the “A” end of the terminal. There’s a bronze statue of a cowboy’s head, huge, you can’t miss it. That’s Sam Livingston. He was one of Calgary’s pioneers, originally from Ireland. He had a […]