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Photo A Day October – Day 7

This month I’m participating in the October photo a day challenge, as a way to get into the daily habit of using the camera on my new iPhone, and I’ll be posting my challenge photos as part of my Alphabet Salad blog entries. [continue reading…]

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Photo A Day October – Day 6

This month I’m participating in the October photo a day challenge, as a way to get into the daily habit of using the camera on my new iPhone, and I’ll be posting my challenge photos as part of my Alphabet Salad blog entries. [continue reading…]

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Photo A Day October – Day 5

This month I’m participating in the October photo a day challenge, as a way to get into the daily habit of using the camera on my new iPhone, and I’ll be posting my challenge photos as part of my Alphabet Salad blog entries. [continue reading…]

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Photo A Day October – Day 4

This month I’m participating in the October photo a day challenge, as a way to get into the daily habit of using the camera on my new iPhone, and I’ll be posting my challenge photos as part of my Alphabet Salad blog entries. [continue reading…]

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Photo A Day October – Day 3

This month I’m participating in the October photo a day challenge, as a way to get into the daily habit of using the camera on my new iPhone, and I’ll be posting my challenge photos as part of my Alphabet Salad blog entries. [continue reading…]

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Photo A Day October – Day 2

This month I’m participating in the October photo a day challenge, as a way to get into the daily habit of using the camera on my new iPhone, and I’ll be posting my challenge photos as part of my Alphabet Salad blog entries. [continue reading…]

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Photo A Day October – Day 1

This month I’m participating in the October photo a day challenge, as a way to get into the daily habit of using the camera on my new iPhone, and I’ll be posting my challenge photos as part of my Alphabet Salad blog entries. [continue reading…]

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A reminder to myself: Why I Write

The other day I experienced one of those wonderful moments when something I had been struggling to write suddenly gelled into relative perfection, and the resulting onrush of joy prompted me to exclaim loudly and impulsively, [continue reading…]

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Wayback Machine – Finding Community

Back in September of last year, after selling our house in Victoria, my husband and I flew to Windsor for a one-week whirlwind house-buying adventure in our soon-to-be new city.
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A blank screen

When it comes to writing, there is little worse than a big, empty white space where a bunch of inspired words should be. That’s what I’m facing right now – a blank screen that reflects the contents of a (currently) blank mind. [continue reading…]

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Grateful thoughts

Spending all this time up at the hospital is taking its toll – I think I’m coming down with a cold. Not at all what I had in mind! Ah, well, if that’s the only thing that happens to me I can definitely take it in stride. [continue reading…]

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Wordless Wednesday

POD 49/365/2009 - How Do I Love Thee

POD 50/365/2009 - Let Me Count The Ways

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Random Updates

I was able to chat with my husband (Peter) a couple of times on the phone today, then headed up to the hospital around dinnertime to see him. He’s still very, very tired – if you’ve ever stayed in a hospital, you’ll know that they are not [continue reading…]

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The (first) Big Day

Today began with a 4:30 a.m. wakeup (what, who needs more than four hours of sleep?!), was spent largely at the hospital, and will end when I head to bed just as soon as this is posted. It has been a long, wearisome period of [continue reading…]

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The Night Before

Tomorrow is the big day – the day of my husband’s first surgery. This evening we’re rushing around doing last-minute things, making phone calls to various family members, and feeling fairly tired and nervous in anticipation [continue reading…]

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Wayback Machine – On the Job Front

Now that I’ve given some background details (here, here, here, and here) as to how and why we moved to Windsor, Ontario almost a year ago, here’s a bit about how I ended up keeping my job and working from my new home. [continue reading…]

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Getting there

We’ve slowly – between work, medical appointments, social engagements, nagging headaches, and general inertia – been plugging away at unpacking the latest (last!) batch of new furniture and setting up our home’s second floor. [continue reading…]

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