Family is a complicated topic. Maybe you have a large family or maybe small, mine is just right. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about family recently as events unfold in the lives of mine. My Dad has been in a managed care facility for over 5 years now. He smiles all the time …
While I was in Toronto recently, I paused for a few hours to have lunch at my favourite restaurant, Joso’s at the intersection of Avenue Road and Davenport. A lovely, romantic spot, famous for its Dalmatian Coast cuisine. Today's feature image was taken at Joso's. Here's the link to Joso's I started with a simple …
I’ve been gone about two weeks and now I’m back in my little mountain town. Yesterday woke up to a beautiful orange and red sunrise as viewed from my east facing bed. Now I sit in my great room thinking about the days ahead this week. There is frost on the glass of my deck’s …
I wrote this last year, just before a trip to Toronto. Reading it now makes me cry and I'm sorry if that makes you uncomfortable and you wish I'd just stop already. Shut it down, go ahead, give me that"special look"or that rude signal you use when you've had enough and think everyone else has …
Hello, it’s been awhile, I thought I should update you on what’s going on here in my wee bit of paradise in the Canadian Rockies. I'm sitting in my office. The feature picture is the view to my left, out the window - There is full on green trees now with the snow capped Lizard …
Big fat flakes of snow are falling slowly in my little town - each one beautiful and unique just like you. Inside it’s toasty warm as our heating system struggles to keep up with the ever falling outside temperatures - baby it’s cold out there and icy and slippery. I haven’t been outside much this …
Happiness? I google the question "what does it feel like to be really happy?” Such a basic emotion to some has mostly always seemed just beyond my grasp. But I felt it yesterday. I felt a real smile spread across my face. Yesterday I got an email that confirmed to me in black and white …
A couple of years ago, one of my therapists suggested that I visualize myself walking. At the time I couldn't. I just couldn't seem to remember how I might have looked striding down the street. Perhaps because I could no longer stride. My walk has evolved into a 1.5-2.0 pace. ( that is the speed …
Life sure is interesting. I started working at age 14 at my local McDonalds. I worked cash on various shifts and got promoted to Hostess (that's usually the job given to the the person that does the kids birthday parties. At my store I rolled out the Ronald McDonald helium tank and made balloons for …
Adulting sure is hard work whether you are 20, 40, 50 or 80. My cousin's daughter posted on Facebook recently that she was finding it hard to "adult" at the moment. Well I get that, sweetie, many of us "adults" still find adulting hard even after many years of practice. - some of us have …