A Different Vantage
This past weekend my daughter and I attended a fundraiser in aid of a new hospice residence – the keynote speaker, a recent widow, was billed to talk about her experience with hospice. As the master of ceremonies began her introduction my daughter, fearing I might find the speech upsetting, quietly asked if I’d like […]
Here we go again…
I am sixty-six years old and for about the ninety-seventh time in my life I am contemplating buying bigger pants. Yup – I’ve outgrown my jeans yet again; my waistband overfloweth, my ample posterior has been amplified; my pants will stretcheth no further. I’ve been left to my own devices for months and that has […]
Facebook reminder
Facebook gave me one of its nudges this morning and sent me back to two years ago today, back to a blog post I’d written in the months before my world fell apart. I clicked through the link and re-read my own words – in them I found the message I needed to hear today. […]
I remember remembering
I have no memory of a world at war, of days and nights laced with fear or of lives lost. I have no visions of the faces of young men and women finding courage beyond my imagination. I have no memory of rationing or shortages or sacrifice. And I’m thankful for that – the death, […]
The Breakfast Club meets The Frisbee Dog
Chester and I have discovered that White Rock has a resident flock of Canada Geese – noisy honkers who seem to have moved to the beach front without invitation or consideration. These geese have a breakfast club which convenes at the white rock on the daily. We’ve noticed the gathering varies in size from day to […]
A personal pep talk
I called on myself to be brave this past weekend and took step out of my comfort zone. I asked for a favor. Now I’m feeling limp and stupid. My confidence vanished the moment my request was spoken, a wish became an action and that action has left me fraught with self conscious worry. I […]
Feeding my addiction
I’ve been clean for more than a decade. Not that it’s been an effort to stay clean – rather a non-effort. For years I lived to see my writing in print, I collected ‘tear sheets’ like it was my job. I didn’t write for money or fame (well, maybe a little bit for fame), I […]
With this ring…
Forty-one years ago today a young man gave me a ring and a promise. We stood in a church and pledged ourselves to one another. Both the church and the young man are gone now – the church succumbing to old age, the young man to cancer. But the ring and the promise are mine […]
The Canadians
I’m weary of the 2019 race for prime minister, thankfully the finish line is in sight. I don’t know why anyone would want to run for office – what could be worse than being criticized, ostracized and scrutinized day after day for weeks on end only to win the hot seat in parliament. Politics isn’t […]
Politics and the ties that bind
I have been doing some political pondering lately – it’s little wonder really, we are swimming in politics right now. Here in Canada we are running a pageant for Prime Minister – it’s a race to see who can out talk, out sell and out do, their opponent. It’s noisy – we aren’t all that […]