Throwback Thursday – Nov. 23/17
BC Parent December 1999 Holiday Decor I set the artificial, tinseled, tabletop Christmas tree on the dining room table today. Half thrown beside a ceramic pumpkin, it is the first inkling of Christmas to sneak out of the attic. It’s the first week of December, and once again the aura of the season finds me […]
Let the happily ever after begin
It was all glow and glitter, tears, cheers and love. It was a celebration, a beginning. I love weddings. I don’t know what exactly it is about a wedding that makes me so emotional. I spent the entire day with my daughter, I watched her get her hair done and her makeup applied. It shouldn’t […]
Not a throwback Thursday Nov. 16, 2017
Through a mother’s eyes Hardly a day goes by when I don’t think about, and miss, my mother. You would think I would be used to this by now, I’ve been doing it for twenty-eight years. But every time I’m faced with a once-in-a-lifetime occasion, the ache is brand new. On Saturday evening our daughter […]
Lesson learned
I got a little reprimand from the trash collector the other day – a sticky note strategically stuck to the top of our garbage bin. Apparently I had parked the organics bin too close to the bin containing our garbage and the collector refrained from collecting. I had to wheel our almost full garbage bin […]
Motivation
I am a sucker for inspirational swag – it’s like I need little reminders to stay the course. I have collected quotable quotes my whole life; words of wisdom that speak to me. I see them everywhere. These days quotes adorn almost everything; pillows, coffee cups and even inked on people. I can get inspired […]
Throwback Thursday Nov. 9, 2017
The Vancouver Sun. VOICES column Nov. 1999 For My Father and all the Veterans who fought for us I watched the Remembrance Day ceremony on Parliament Hill from the comfortable surroundings of my family room. Outside my windows rain drizzled. The skies were clear in Ottawa. I observed our moment of silence and ‘remembered’. I […]
My conscience – a tale of two Goofys
I think everyone has a voice of reason and caution as well as one of temptation and frivolity, I know I do. I call these voices my Goofys. Good Goofy stands on my right shoulder and whispers words of wisdom into my good ear. Bad Goofy crouches on my left shoulder and makes his suggestions […]
A good investment
I have a giant goldfish who lives in an aquarium in my office. My eldest granddaughter and I bought her at the local pet store. My granddaughter was about one at the time, she is now seven – which means this goldfish is now a senior. The fish was tiny when we bought it — […]
Throwback Thursday — Nov. 2, 2017
published in The Richmond Review. Sept. 1998. BC Parent June 1999 The Bottom Line I admit it, I felt self-conscious as I pulled on my spandex pants and headed out the door to my first fitness class. I remember hoping my t-shirt was long enough to cover […]
The Halloween
Both dogs are leashed and tied to the leg of the coffee table in the family room. The pumpkins are lit and balanced like severed heads on the front porch railing. We are just waiting for tick or treaters to set the dogs off and cause bedlam in the house – the coffee table can […]