This week looks like

It is still two weeks to the start of school. Most of my daughter’s friends are still away on holiday – so, we have a solid week of planned activities ahead of us. Golf, swimming and of course, ice-skating. What I’ve tried to do is structure the mornings and leave the afternoons free for play and open creativity.

I used to love summer holidays and between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four they were my most musically productive times. But, these days I find summers quite lonely. We take shorter summer holidays than a lot of people we know and a lot of the time parents here don’t even accompany their kids to camps or playdates (boy I hate that word).

As for writing, well it is not that great a season. I had some good ideas while away on holidays but have not yet had the time to turn them into anything more substantial. I really should have my PowerBook with me through the day. But, since I’m already lugging skates, clubs and clothes in and out of cabs for most of the day extra baggage is the last thing I’m looking to volunteer for.