Today is the day that my hopes and dreams are coming true!
OK, well, sort of. I’m putting bit of a [continue reading…]
It seems as though lately my online travels keep leading me, again and again, to posts and articles focused on the same word (or, if not the word itself, then the sentiment behind it). Not [continue reading…]
As I was working my way through the usual routine this morning, shaking the cobwebs from my brain and readying myself to face another day, a trick of the light turned the ordinary, for [continue reading…]
For the most part, I’d say that I am a fairly positive person, and in general, I believe the tone of my writing reflects this. I’m struggling to find positivity tonight, though… as a matter of [continue reading…]
You’d think I’d have learned by now, after I-don’t-know-how-many years of handling my/our finances, that the whole process works a lot better when I stay on top of my responsibilities [continue reading…]
On the one hand, life is far too fleeting to devote your precious time and emotional energy to paying attention to individuals who regularly spew or propagate ugly, untrue, hateful words. [continue reading…]
Well, after a great deal of anticipation, The Hunger Games – the movie, I mean – is actually here! OK, so it’s really a few hours until it’s officially here (anyone going to a midnight show?! [continue reading…]
Having asked of my readers, “Where does it happen for you?” – that is, where do you write? – and having received several interesting responses, I suppose it’s my turn to answer the question! [continue reading…]
How do you know… or who decides, I suppose… if and when a person is “allowed” to refer to themself as a writer?
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The other day my husband and I took notebooks and pens down to a park bench on the riverside, fully intending to do some inspired-by-our-surroundings scribbling together. Not [continue reading…]
Sometimes Mondays aren’t so delightful. You know what I mean! But today has been lovely, not in a show-stopping spectacular way with plenty of fanfare, but rather quietly, with several small [continue reading…]
When I lived in Victoria, the pull to connect with nature invariably drew me to the oceanfront, where breathing in the crispness of the salty, seaweed-scented air and watching the sun [continue reading…]
Despite how it might look at first glance (and depending on where your mind goes!), “31DBBB” does not refer to some bizarre, unbalanced bra size (sorry if I disappointed you!)… rather, [continue reading…]
This little piece of news is unlikely to be of particular excitement to anyone other than yours truly, but please bear with me while I do a celebratory happy dance around the room, because… [continue reading…]
My life changed dramatically back in October of last year when we left Victoria and moved across the country to Windsor, yet we’ve settled in to our new home so quickly and well that it’s strange [continue reading…]
It’s March, right? The middle of March? As in, still winter, not yet spring? And I’m living in Ontario, not Hawaii? This is Canada, referred to by some as “The Frozen North” – correct? [continue reading…]
