Birthdays. That annual, big, shiny beacon that is consistently the same day every year flashing brightly indicating the passing of another year and yet it always seems to creep up on us. That day where you eat the cake, get the phone calls, open the gifts, toast with family and...
Midlife crisis. Two words I often joked about and never thought, for even a brief second, would ever happen to me. First off, midlife was something so far away and my young 20-something-self- at -the-time thought I was invincible and ageless and secondly, a crisis was something that happened to...
This week I didn’t know what to write about… I sat for a long time starring at a blank screen, with an empty mind, blank canvas and no thoughts. Some days words come easy and some days they don’t. Some days we have no words; opinions, thoughts, deep emotions, but...
A few weeks ago, we had a beautiful mother robin make a nest right in our windowsill in perfect view for us to see from the comforts of our living room. It was the perfect spot for us to see all of the daily happenings… and brought a lot of...
Every single story of someone’s life is made up of chapters that you know nothing about. Truth. We are all so quick to judge. Myself included. We see someone, hear their story and judge them on the chapter we are walking into …not really thinking of all of the chapters...
When I was in grade school, we had a club at recess that would meet under the pine trees by the driveway. It was a girl’s only -no boys allowed club. To get into this club you had to either like Joey or Blake. Two cute, outgoing boys in the...
No matter how much we try to control things, some things are just out of our control. Like the dreaded Covid. Last week I got hit. Stuffed up, head ache, body aches, runny nose and man was I tired. Just a cold I thought as I’ve been run down trying...
Since I was old enough to write words I have journaled. I would write out simple things like what I did at recess, who my friends were, my favourite colour; you know, simple childhood stuff… but I never missed a day… and I most often ended each entry with “I...
Anxiety… that funny seven letter word that has been thrown about for the last two years and shunned by many as a negative personality trait and label to be worn as someone who is high stress and tied tight. But I laugh at that label; crumple it up and throw...
Our family just welcomed a new puppy two weeks ago. His name is Ollie and two out of four members of our family are in love, ha! A puppy is work. No time is the right time because it’s like a baby without diapers who has sharp teeth and chews...