‘It’s the Season
My halls have been decked for over two weeks – I jumped into the holiday season with two feet this year. I haven’t seen much of what is on display for four years – I packed my last real Christmas away just prior to opening a box filled with so much grief it’s taken these […]
Another 2 birds/same stone
A seasonal snippet from the Storyworth project. Catalog Shopping Santa brought my younger sister a rabbit for Christmas once – she named him Peter. I don’t know what happened to Peter after the excitement of Christmas morning was over but I still have the transistor radio he brought to me that year. Christmas in our house […]
Remembering
Remembrance Day always gives me pause – it’s supposed to. I have no actual memories of what I’m remembering but my parents did and they used to remember in vivid detail – especially on Remembrance Day. My Dad was seventeen when he enlisted in the Navy – World War Two was well underway. He was […]
Sports-ing
I was never a sportsy kid – I didn’t play sports, I didn’t watch sports, I didn’t care about sports – sports-ing was for other kids, keeners. But all that changed once I had kids of my own. My children inherited their father’s natural co-ordination and balance, they were good at any sport they chose to […]
Boom!
Here’s a kicker – the baby-boomers are now the Old Age Pensioners (WTF!). I for one was gobsmacked when this particular penny dropped. I’ve been receiving money from the government for a few years and it’s only just occurred to me that I qualified for the windfall because I was old – because until the other morning […]
The Graduate
The class of 2021 is poised to pounce on the world. The school year is over, lockers have been emptied and grade twelve students are closing the door on their high school experience – it’s an ending and a new dawn for the lot of them. It’s exciting and terrifying and I feel all of that with […]
The Waiting
The mountain of boxes in my dining room grows by the day – just when I think I’m getting a handle on this packing shit I open another cupboard and am reminded again that I am, and have always been, a bit of a hoarder. Some of the things I’ve been so carefully packing haven’t […]
Follow the leader
It was a dismal morning – grey, wet and cold. I pulled on my rain gear and headed out feeling as dark as the day. I locked the door and stepped into the storm hoping to do a little positive self-talk and walk away my mood. I’m anxious about my real estate situation, my place has become a […]
A waiting game
I’ve been busy cleaning and staging my condo – I’m on the move again. I’ve purchased a house with my eldest daughter and her husband, a really great place with a self contained two-bedroom suite on the lower level. It’s perfect. We’d fomented this plan back in October – we listed our respective homes and […]
Past Tense
I didn’t stay up to see 2020 out the door – it snuck into the darkness like it arrived into the light of last year, quietly. It’s gone – thank the Lord. I checked the lock this morning fearful an encore was waiting outside – 2020 has been so volatile I don’t trust it to […]