Masking the Virus
We are approximately three and a half months into this pandemic, one hundred and five days into an uncertain future. I’m sick of people referring to this as the new normal – there is not one thing normal about it. Restrictions are finally easing a bit, we can now get a hair cut if we wear […]
The Jester
Olive has been gone for three weeks and it feels like forever and yesterday in the same breath. Chester is still moping, he isn’t used to being an only dog and appears to be feeling the heat – we’ve been taking more walks than usual, he has been brushed until he’s out of patience and I think […]
The only one
The world is opening up, restrictions are being lifted and people are out and about again – at least some people are. I’m not feeling confident enough to jump back into life, even while wearing a mask. I worry I’ve turned into some sort of recluse, a weird germaphobe who not only finds it difficult to make […]
Defining moments / #thekidswillbefine
My grandmother was five years old when Wilbur and Orville took their first flight over Kitty Hawk. I’m not sure Gramma remembered the world prior to that momentous day or if she was even aware man had just taken flight. History defined the moment. I was five years old when the Hula Hoop arrived on the scene. Although […]
The New Olden Days
I often tell my granddaughters stories about the olden days, about my youth on the Alberta prairie, about freezing winters, chinooks and a springtime that was announced by purple crocuses turning the prairie mauve. I don’t have to try very hard to paint that landscape in my mind – I can see it in the wistful […]
‘That’ Old Lady
I’ve spent too much time alone these past weeks, I’ve watched too much news and I am starting to take too many things far too seriously- my sense of humor has gone the way of freedom and fun. The CoronaVirus is all anyone is talking about; the numbers, the death, the scramble for a vaccine; the […]
(Anti) Social Media
There’s a light at the end of the tunnel – hope has arrived. There is a rumor we are days away from the end of isolation, days closer to hugs, inches away from better days. ‘But’, the news said… not yet – not today. It will be a long time before we get back to business […]
Metamorphosis
Here in British Columbia we are in for two more weeks of emergency measures – code for fourteen more days of social distancing and self isolation. Aloneness. It’s been two months since I’ve kissed a grandchild or hugged my kids, two months since I’ve met a friend for lunch. I’m not sure I will remember how to be […]
I’m done of it…
There’s a point in the middle of just about any new regime; dieting, quitting drinking/smoking/procrastinating; that everything gets boring. The enthusiasm we may have felt at the onset of the quest has worn off, the results aren’t as exciting as we had hoped and we are ‘effing’ done of it. I think that’s the point […]
Hitting the wall
I’ve become lethargic, maybe even lazy. A hamster in captivity has more gumption than I do these days – between napping inside its cardboard toilet paper tube and munching kibbles the hamster spends at least part of its day running on a squeaky wheel. Aside from the squeaky wheel thing that hamster and I have a […]