Oregon Honeymoon Daydreams

May 17, 2013 By Courtney Tait in Ideas + Inspiration, Travel Tags: Cape Perpetua, Crater Lake, Heceta Head Lighthouse, Oregon Travel, Siuslaw Forest, Thor's Well, U.S. honeymoon 4 Comments

Exciting news: the first step of our visa application for me to move to the U.S. and marry Joe was approved this week!

We still have several steps to go through before the process is complete (waiting for the application to be forwarded to the National Visa Centre, more forms, a medical exam, interview at the consulate, etc…) but this is definitely a major move forward, and one we’ve been waiting for since we first applied 9 months ago, last August.

Perfect timing to share a few places we’re thinking of visiting on our ‘tropical’ Oregon honeymoon! Maybe these will inspire a future Oregon trip for some of you too…

Stargazers. (And a couple things my mom taught me.)

May 9, 2013 By Courtney Tait in Ideas + Inspiration Tags: flowers, lessons taught by mom, memory, stargazer lilies 2 Comments

Last week I decided I couldn’t wait any longer for blooms to appear. The snow has finally melted (!) but the trees in Saskatoon are dry and brown. I’ve been craving green, growth, and colour…

So I gave my cousin Heather my debit card on her run to the grocery store, and asked her to pick up some fresh flowers I could bring home. She chose these stargazer lilies. (They were starting to yellow a little by the time I took this pic, but aren’t they gorgeous? And their scent is seriously amazing.)

I always think of my mom when I’m arranging flowers in a vase, because she taught me two things:

Confession: I’ve been spending my nights with Keith Richards

April 30, 2013 By Courtney Tait in Books, Music, Writing Tags: autobiography, Keith Richards, Life, The Rolling Stones Leave a comment

It starts around midnight–I settle in under the duvet, adjust the lamplight, take a sip of water. Then I flip open the page.

We’re currently in the middle of ’76. Richards has brought his seven-year-old son, Marlon, on tour through Europe–the two of them drive to the gigs, Marlon holding the map, Richards at the wheel. Marlon has been instructed to tell his dad when they’re 15 clicks away from the borders. Then it’s time to pull over, so Richards can “have a shot.” (After, he either dumps or re-sorts his stash, before crossing into the next country.) His heroin habit is very, very bad by this point in “Life,” but it never stops him from missing a show–though sometimes he arrives three hours late. He’s also taken to sleeping with a gun under his pillow.

A Story of Cousins. And a Recipe! (Heather’s Granola)

April 23, 2013 By Courtney Tait in Recipes, Relationships Tags: childhood, cousins, granola recipe, Saskatoon 5 Comments

When I was born I didn’t have a sister, yet. She arrived later, when I was 15–but that’s a different story. What I had was a cousin who is like a sister. She’s been with me since the start, since I was a baby in a crib in a yellow-checked nursery on Wiggins Avenue.

Flashback: Dead Poets Society (and a Long-Distance Date)

April 15, 2013 By Courtney Tait in Films, Poetry Tags: childhood movies, Dead Poets Society, Ethan Hawke, long distance, Robin Williams 1 Comment

Image via: fanpop.com

One thing I’ve realized I like doing is re-watching a movie I saw as a kid, picking up on all the layers of meaning I may have missed the first time around. It’s so cool to view something from the adult perspective and compare it to the perception your younger self had.

As I wrote about here, I’m currently living in Saskatoon with my family waiting for my K1 fiance visa, while Joe is in Portland. Long distance is made a lot easier with skype and gchat, but these modes of communication typically don’t allow for one of the things you miss most when you’re apart: just hanging out.

So last week we decided to watch a movie together, over skype. Read more

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Oregon Honeymoon Daydreams

Stargazers. (And a couple things my mom taught me.)

Confession: I’ve been spending my nights with Keith Richards

A Story of Cousins. And a Recipe! (Heather’s Granola)

Flashback: Dead Poets Society (and a Long-Distance Date)

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