Throwback Thursday Jan. 4/18
perhaps my quest for new adventures isn’t a new thing after all. I had forgotten all about this particular essay, written 18 years ago. Night School Published: Women news magazine March 2000 Just after her fortieth birthday, a friend of mine decided to go back to school to become a nurse. It was an ambitious […]
The first post of the new year
For some reason I feel like I am standing at the end of the high diving board, the new year is twinkling in the water below. I’m not sure I’m ready to take the plunge – that water looks a bit murky from way up here. I know the year will hold all the promise […]
New Years Eve – Hogmanay
We are bringing in the new year on Scotland’s time with kilted pipers and drummers and a crowd of people who also think this is the best idea ever. While everyone else in Canada, coast to coast to coast, is awaiting the stroke of midnight in their respective time zones, we will be whooping it […]
Poised for the new year
We are in the home stretch of 2017, January first is dangling like a carrot on the horizon. New Year’s Day, the launching pad for so many personal goals, falls on a Monday this year which, in my books, makes it a double whammy. I’ve started my list, I’ve begun charting my course and I […]
Throwback Thursday Dec. 28/17
Published December 2001 BC Parent Magazine May 2001 Sydney’s Child May 2004 Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne’s Child 2008 Chicken Soup for the Soul A Tribute to Moms More Than Just a Pie I was making a pie this afternoon and thought of my mother. It wasn’t her pastry expertise which brought her to my […]
Ready. Set. Done
It’s Boxing Day – the refrigerator is burping the fragrance of cold turkey and cooked Brussels sprouts every time I open its door, the recycling bin is full to overflowing with festive paper and superfluous packaging and I’m eating the last of the Christmas trifle for breakfast. Christmas is done like dinner. And for me, […]
Throwback Thursday. Dec. 21/17
Chicken Soup for the Soul – Christmas. 2007 Skinny Santa I heard a rumor recently – no doubt it evolved as only rumors do, increasing and changing in the passing – and I feel compelled to do my part in its progression, so I’m passing it along to you. Someone, somewhere has started a petition […]
Secret Santa
I haven’t done much in the baking department this year – my little helpers all go to school now. It isn’t as much fun to disaster the kitchen by myself. I’m thankful I grabbed every available afternoon with the girls when I had the opportunity to. They are growing up faster than even my own […]
Christmas Brownies
This past week I was invited to participate in an evening of holiday craft making with my daughter’s Brownies/Sparks troop. She helps coordinate 17 little girls who are on a serious quest for badges and recognition. She is a good sport about her role as Snowy Owl, and seems to have a level of patience […]
Throwback Thursday – Dec. 14/17
Peace Arch News Dec. 1995. Richmond Review. Dec. 1996 Christmas Reflections Soggy leaves, the remnants of fall, tread water by storm sewers at the side of the road and glisten in the green and red glow of Christmas lights sneaking up around the neighborhood. The aura of the most festive season of the year is […]