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Quick note to my bloggy friends

Up until now I’ve been using a mishmash of my favorites list, NaBloPoMo links, BlogHer posts, e-mail subscriptions, and so on – basically, whatever happens to be on offer at a [continue reading…]

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How I Do That Thing I Do

Today’s thoughts are inspired by a fellow blogger, Tangled Lou of Periphery, specifically as a response to her request in a recent blog post, “How Do You Do That Thing We Do?” [continue reading…]

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Stealing our sunshine

You know how sometimes you find yourself in your “happy place” – this amazing zone where everything feels perfect, where life moves along seamlessly for just a little while, and you don’t [continue reading…]

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A look in the mirror

Yesterday I took myself and a Christmas gift card to a clothing store in search of something to carry me through this “not exactly winter but not quite spring” weather Windsor has [continue reading…]

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What do you want to do?

Life lessons can come at you in all sorts of different ways. This morning, for some reason, a series of TV commercials for a financial organization surfaced in my thoughts, hitting me with [continue reading…]

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Versatile Blogger Award

The blogging community can be a truly wonderful place, and I feel very fortunate to have become a member of several groups created for the purpose of sharing, making connections, [continue reading…]

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On racism, revisited

As a kid, I loved funny things – jokes, riddles, puns… the sillier the better – anything that made me laugh. I was an extremely shy child, but telling jokes was a surefire way to [continue reading…]

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Featured on BlogHer – Part 2?!

I think I’ve fallen in love with the month of March (and not just because it’s not February, either!). In addition to the fun of participating in The Week-Long 100 Comments On My Blog Event [continue reading…]

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Featured on BlogHer!

Is it a terrible thing, a sign of misplaced pride or overblown ego, to feel a thrill when your writing is highlighted, thereby acknowledging it as something that others might like to read? [continue reading…]

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Keeping me humble

You’ve probably heard that saying, “When you point a finger at someone else, three fingers are pointing back at you.” Yes, it’s rather cliché, but like many clichés, it’s also rather true. [continue reading…]

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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. [continue reading…]

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Shameless self-promotion

Colour me clueless, but I recently discovered that it is now possible to set up Google+ pages! How long has that been an option?! So much for my being on top of things in the [continue reading…]

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A taste of the big time

I, along with a couple of hundred other aspiring bloggers, was given the opportunity to get a taste – just a tiny one, only eight days long and one post wide – of what it’s like to be [continue reading…]

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10 Ways to Live a Meaningful Life

While we each may express it in our own unique style, and our individual paths will twist and turn in different directions along the way, I believe that we all share a common desire: [continue reading…]

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Leap Day ramblings

My mind is rather scattered today, after having spent concentrated time focusing on completion of a project in order to meet a specific deadline. Now that the project has been wrapped up [continue reading…]

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Terms of Use

Be honest with me here.

When you create an account on a web site, or perhaps install some new software [continue reading…]

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Windsor Square Column: Windsor Politics 101

(Note: This post was written by Laurel Regan and originally published in a separate blog called “Why Windsor…”, which was later merged with Alphabet Salad.)

My weekly Windsor Square column has been posted:

Why Windsor:
Windsor Politics 101

Please take a look and let me know what you think!

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