Our First Anniversary
We are celebrating our first anniversary in our new house. Lots has happened in the past twelve months; we said goodbye to Chester and hello to Penny, we celebrated all the occasions, experienced all the seasons and we are still speaking to each other. We survived the downstairs renovation and the moving of the palm […]
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 […]
2 birds/1 stone
I’m still knee deep in old stories and memories and trying to stay the course with this project. I find it easy to lose my focus and shelve things when other stuff looks more exciting and what I’m working on starts to feel like actual work. (In an effort to keep my momentum and not […]
Just checking in…
I’m just touching base lest you think I’ve disappeared. I’m totally immersed in my Storyworth project – I’ve actually been writing up a storm – memories are showing up in an odd order and I try to grab them while they’re here. Here is a short snippet: The Rambler Everyone has a most-embarrassing-moment-ever moment in […]
Touching Base
It seems the moment I closed the book on ‘The Secrets Widows Keep’ a creative window opened – I shipped The Secrets off and new stories drifted into focus. You wouldn’t guess it from the blog – it’s been totally neglected – but my Storyworth project is back in business and I’ve been lost in it […]
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 […]
Catching up with the Times
I’ve always been a little late to the technology party, a little reluctant to move with the times. Not so my husband – he was always excited with each new advancement, keen to jump right in. We were one of the first families with a video camera (it had several components but if you were […]
A Covid Christmas
It’s December – Christmas is around the corner and hell bent to make an appearance, pandemic be damned. Covid might have locked us up but the jolly holly will not be denied. The world feels different this year, indifferent. I am indifferent too. My Christmas decorations are still stashed in the crawl space beneath my […]
Ponder – to think about
I blow dry my hair every morning – the reflection of a sixty seven year old woman stares at me from her vantage in the mirror. The woman in the mirror wears no expression – hair drying is monotonous. But beyond the blank face a million thoughts are swirling – memories are being remembered, plans […]
A short snippet
Tomorrow is my sister’s birthday. I don’t get to see this particular sister very often but I do think about her on the regular. She is my youngest sibling, we are separated by several miles and five years. I feel close to her in a sisterly fashion – we hail from the same place. I […]