Category: Choose Joy

13 Jan, 2026   •   Choose Joy   •   Lessons Lived And Learned   •   Mindset Matters

Sports and Hope

Sometimes life isn’t fair. No sugar coating, no rainbows. It just isn’t fair. Someone else gets the job, someone else wins the lotto. Friends change, marriages fail, life moves on. Sometimes life just isn’t fair. And that’s why I love sports. Hear me out. Sports are an escape.  A chance...

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20 Dec, 2025   •   Choose Joy   •   Lessons Lived And Learned   •   Mindset Matters

Belief

A friend of mine recently asked me if I was writing anymore as she noticed  I have been absent from my blog and social media. I replied. “I am, I’m just busy”, but as the conversation moved on, I felt a little pang in my heart. You see, I hate...

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10 Sep, 2025   •   Choose Joy   •   Lessons Lived And Learned   •   Mindset Matters

The Summer I Turned … My Phone Off

So what did I do this summer? Well, since I gave up social media, I took a trip down memory lane to the good old days.  I stopped caring about what everyone else was doing and I simply lived life, scroll free, more present, less anxious and less picture perfect....

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5 Jun, 2025   •   Choose Joy   •   Family   •   Lessons Lived And Learned

The Magic Of Disney

Last week my family and I returned from the most magical place on earth, Disney World. We returned with a bucket full of core memories, a stronger bond, full hearts, a couple souvenirs and stories we will share for years to come. The last time we went to Disney my...

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21 Apr, 2025   •   Choose Joy   •   Lessons Lived And Learned   •   Mindset Matters

Life’s Stitches

This week I heard a quote on the radio, and yes for those snickering I do still listen to the radio every morning while packing lunches and starting my day. There is so much joy in morning radio, where the hosts play off each other, taking silly polls, sharing stories,...

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18 Jan, 2025   •   Choose Joy   •   Family   •   Lessons Lived And Learned   •   Mindset Matters

The Teenage Era

My mom once told me that we don’t truly measure time until we have children of our own. This week I felt that deeply. My daughter, the oldest, the one who made me a mom turned 13 and I felt like just yesterday I was cradling her in my arms,...

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4 Sep, 2024   •   Choose Joy   •   Family   •   Lessons Lived And Learned   •   Mindset Matters

Live Like Dave

Seven years ago today life was thrown into perspective. Cancer took another victim and heaven gained another angel. The sweetest woman I’ve ever met and someone I’m lucky enough to call my friend Kim, lost her husband that morning. He was young, he was vibrant, he was optimistic, he was...

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27 Feb, 2024   •   Choose Joy   •   Lessons Lived And Learned   •   Mindset Matters

Laughs And A Legacy

They say that laughter is the best medicine and this weekend I was reminded of that, as Steve Smith, aka Red Green, was inducted into the Canadian Comedy Hall of Fame. Both himself and his legacy were a huge part of my life, so being there to see him accept...

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13 Feb, 2024   •   Choose Joy   •   Family   •   Lessons Lived And Learned   •   Mindset Matters

Iconic Irrelevance

No one ever wants to be irrelevant; imagine that feeling of being useless, not applicable, almost obsolete. Like the last kid picked in dodge ball. The one not called upon in class. The one whose resume always lands at the bottom of the pile. It’s never fun to feel unseen,...

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2 Jan, 2024   •   Choose Joy   •   Lessons Lived And Learned   •   Mindset Matters   •   Wellness And Self Care

Life is Like A Tube Of Toothpaste

To me the last month of the year is always like squeezing that last bit of toothpaste out of the tube.  You know what I mean right? When the tube appears to be empty but both you and your spouse are too lazy to go get a new one, so...

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