You know how in the early days of the internet you used to just bump along looking for fun things? And every day was a discovery? That's how I feel on the days when I play on the BlogHer Blog Directory. I especially like to do it with the Canadian blogs. Here's a sample of what I found playing in the blogroll tonight.

A Hippie In a Minivan spent a day in Montreal at the Redpath Museum. Confession: I've sat on the steps at the Redpath Museum (many, many times) and had a class or two in the lecture hall while I was a student at McGill but I never actually toured the museum.

The theme was Mummies. A little tour and talk about mummies and then an activity for the kids…The talk was perfect, geared towards kids and just the perfect amount of time for the kids. Little did I know that as small as the Redpath museum is, they have the second largest ancient Egyptian mummy collection in Canada…3 mummies, a sarcophagus, mummified animals, a set of Coptic Jars along with many other artifacts.

The Drowsey Monkey is wondering if meditating is causing her to lose her blogging edge.

I've been wondering if all my meditation classes have taken away my edge. Made me too balanced to blog. I'm not all tense and angry ... well, yeah okay I'm still a bit of those but not enough to blog about it. Perhaps I need to rethink this self awareness journey.

Ecochick is now an eco-mom. Her post introducing her new eco-chick brings a smile to my face.

I got kind of lost looking at the wonderful photographs on Isle Dance. I'm sure we all know a bunch of reasons why the chicken crossed the road, but do we know why the rooster crossed the road?

I found some sage advice at Join Me On The Path. The next time you are feeling overwhelmed maybe you need to h.a.l.t..

A wise friend advised me to h.a.l.t. when I’m overwhelmed, conflicted or unsure, and to ask myself these questions:

Am I hungry?
Am I angry?
Am I lonely?
Am I tired?

If I answer yes to even one of those questions, it’s best to remedy that issue before even trying to figure out what to do about what’s overwhelming me or what might have me conflicted or unsure.

I really need to remember that one. When I get hungry I also get tired and well, I'm sure there are tropical storms that cause less of a disturbance than I do when I'm like that.

What Canadian blogs have you been reading?

Contributing Editor Sassymonkey also blogs at Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.