All the news about Hurricane Sandy made me panicky.  I looked up Eastern and Central Ontario, the places that would be hit hardest, they said.

Maybe, I thought, we are far enough to be considered Eastern Ontario.  Then we’ll be safe.

No such luck.  I brought in all the Halloween adornments from outside.  I even made my husband wheel in the barbecue.

The wind whipped across the farmer’s field that night.  I could barely sleep.

In the end, we escaped what they have endured south of us.  Just a bad night’s sleep.