by Bernadette Nason | Jul 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
When you can’t speak the language or read the papers or mix with the locals or even walk the streets of the place you call home, it’s difficult to find out what’s going on around you. In such a closed world, hearsay and gossip are often all...
by Bernadette Nason | Jun 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
As the mercury rises here in Austin, Texas, so the bugs are re-appearing. This morning, I heard movement in my waste paper basket and knew it was a cockroach. And there it was, big ol’ feelers waving in the air! Ugh! I was reminded of my first cockroach...
by Bernadette Nason | May 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Today we said goodbye to Minx the Magnificent, our beloved, long-haired, black and white cat. Overcoming kidney failure, high blood pressure, and his own appalling standards of personal hygiene, it was cancer that finally got him. We thank Dr. Baker for all her hard...
by Bernadette Nason | May 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
As I sit in Pep Boys Auto Repair getting 4 new tires on my car, I’m reminded of how this happened. In early March, my fabulous car-guy, (Nasser from Uptown Auto) said, “You need four new tires.” “I’m going to Denton for the Tejas...
by Bernadette Nason | Apr 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
I love sardines. I grew up eating sardines, particularly the tinned variety, and loved them. “Sardines on Toast” was a family favourite. The tins didn’t have a ring-pull like they do now; they had a key and when you wound the key, the metal lid...
by Bernadette Nason | Apr 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Six years ago, the morning I heard of my mother’s death, I went walking in my neighborhood to try and calm myself. Her death was sudden; unexpected. I was about a mile from my house when two huge blue herons flew overhead, landed in a tree above my head, and...
