by kathykastner | Jan 8, 2025 | Blog: Dispatches, explorations
My girls and my squirrel. Julie, our younger daughter, barely says hello to me, instead, firing off an expected question: has Hiya appeared? No matter the answer, she speeds through the house, heading to the big glass sliding doors that open onto a back...
by kathykastner | Jan 6, 2025 | Dogs, Mood
Three dog days: living my best life. Those of a certain age will remember the music group, Three Dog Night (‘One is the Loneliest Number’). Curious about their name, I learned that it referred to how cold a night it was. Three dogs was mighty cold. My...
by kathykastner | Nov 18, 2024 | Blog: Dispatches, Dogs
One of first things I did, moving into our new ‘hood, was to look for the nearest dog park was. My daily practice is to go for a dog walk. This is not because I have a dog. I don’t. Not anymore. I do long for another dog, but it’s not to be, at least for the...
by kathykastner | Sep 16, 2024 | explorations, Mood
In a family of big bosomed women, I was a late bloomer. For too long I hid my shame with tissues stuffed into a AAA bra, graduating to bras that were 3/4 padding. But when they finally blossomed, my bosoms were spectacular. Men delighted in them and clothes strained...
by kathykastner | Jan 31, 2024 | Blog: Dispatches, explorations, Mood
In the 50’s and 60’s, Toronto may have been a staid, close-down-on-Sundays town, but the Kastner house was rocking. In my fam, there was always music, whether live – my banjo and guitar-playing sister and brother – or recorded: the music of the theatre;...