Lover

Love this: “Surely we can do better. Drive-thrus are a symbol of everything wrong with our culture. It’s not good enough that someone else grows, ships and makes our coffee for us, oh no, it has to be delivered direct to our SUV window as we idle in a line of foreign-made, big-ticket, steel-and-glass weapons […]

When a friend from Ontario visited, I told him. I said, “If you smile at women in Halifax, even in bars, they’ll smile back. Sometimes they might even say hi, unprompted!” A veteran of the grim meat-markets of Toronto, he didn’t believe me, but I showed him the friendly way it goes around here. Even out on the street, it happens. This morning in the pouring, freezing rain, you were wearing a yellow slicker crossing at Robie and Cunard, I was plugged into my iPod. I caught your eye and your smile was the sweetest thing I saw all day.

This is to my cat: You are the cutest thing ever. I’ve only had you for 5 months, but you’re one of my best friends. I can’t understand how you went homeless for so many years. You don’t claw the furniture, jump on counters, or beg for our dinner. You welcome us home at night. […]

To the girl on Friday night on Spring Garden Road, you were doing a scavenger hunt with a lot of people, you had to kiss me for 5 seconds in front of CIBC and HMV. Made my night, ha ha :). Wish i would run into you again The guy in the green striped jacket

To the girl on Friday night on Spring Garden Road, you were doing a scavenger hunt with a lot of people, you had to kiss me for 5 seconds in front of CIBC and HMV. Made my night, ha ha :). Wish i would run into you again The guy in the green striped jacket

Thank-you Richard. ~~~* Grateful Girl on Brunswick

Jeez, I love the bitch column. I read it and suddenly, the guy who nearly misses my head with his dog-ball flinging device as I’m coming up the trail around a corner at Point Pleasant and his high-speed OCD Lab in hot pursuit — suddenly that all seems like small potatoes. Other people have bigger […]

To the incredibly good-hearted samaritan that discovered my cell phone in the snow on the corner of Quinpool and Robie on Friday night … you are fantastic and I really just wanted to express my thanks. I called you at 3am and you answered to tell me you had it and dropped it off at […]

Thank you for making sure I always have something nice to eat and tea to wash it down with. Thank your for doing the dishes, washing the laundry, and making sure our pets are taken care of when I’m not around. Sometimes it seems like I take you for granted but I don’t. My fault […]

On my way to grab my Sunday morning coffee today in downtown Dartmouth. Feeling a bit cranky due to lack of caffeine, the light turns green and I start to get a little pissed when the cars in front of me don’t immediately go. Leaning my head out the window to see what the hold […]

I narrowly avoided stepping in dog poo on a sidewalk in the South end this morning. Simultaneously I thought: “Ew!” and “This is the first time I have seen dog poo in the snow this winter!” Thanks to all of you fabulous dog-owners who pick up after your friends. I’m loving your respect of others, […]

I’m always surprised at the small amount of people who hold the door for me and others. To the kind young man at SMU today who held the door for me twice and smiled at me: Thank you! I hope you have a wonderful day. Grateful fellow student