Maybe you are lucky like me. I have a great life here in my little mountain town with a husband who loves me. Shout-out to the two lucky fellows in this picture with me from a few years ago, World Pride in Toronto, hanging out in Yorkville waiting for Miss Conception, I believe. Great friends …
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Isolating in my little town
Saturday March 21, 2020 Perhaps you are interested in whats shaking in my little piece of paradise in the Canadian Rockies. Lets just say its been a week of ups and downs. Seeing the best and the worst in people. The picture above was taken at Toronto's Harbourfront a few years ago. That is my …
Pandemic Sunday
Sunday March 15, 2020 It's Monday but I'm a day behind as I'm posting a blog I wrote yesterday, tomorrow I'll post the one I'm writing today, and so on. Not much going on in my little corner of Paradise in the Canadian Rockies. My husband and I looked at each other this morning. …
What’s Your Perfect Day
Perhaps this is an odd time to be asking questions about perfect days since for most of us that is probably weeks or months in the future. But bear with me a moment. This may make you feel happier today, to embrace some good, warm and happy thoughts about what you would love to …
Villager or Adventurer
Saturday March 7, 2020, Toronto, Canada I used to be an Adventurer, moving through life from one experience to another. And I loved it that way. The unpredictable nature of a day. Wake up. Get dressed. Anything could happen. And often did. As I got older the adventures got larger. Rome for the weekend? Sure. …
Planes, Trains, Automobiles and a Bus
Friday February 14,2020 I’m going to take a wee detour for a few days and just tell you some stories using my blog. I hope you find them amusing or entertaining. My friend was a columnist at The Globe & Mail in Toronto, I was living in London. My friend was planning a business trip …
Some Questions for a moment of introspection
Sunday February 9, 2020 It’s a snowy day in my wee corner of a Paradise in the mountains and I’ve been listening to music all day so far. I remembered a question exercise I did a hundred years ago when I worked at a financial institution in Toronto. The goal was to answer several …
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January felt like one very long Monday….
Sunday 02-02-20 How about you? Was your January fast and action-packed. Mine was not. It was long and dark. And I'm glad it's over! Yesterday was just miserable outside. So I spent all day cooking: Jambalaya - I made a few modifications to the recipe below, such as: I add shrimp or other shellfish at …
Don’t Look Back, You’re Not Going That Way!
I’ve been spending quite a lot of my spare time reading over the holidays. Specifically Quora, which can be interesting and also total trash. As we enter a new decade I’ve been reading about aging and how people are dealing with the inevitable aches, pains, illnesses, inconveniences and so on. I haven’t started to feel …
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Another New Year, Welcome Back to the ’20’s
Every year since I’ve been writing this blog on recovery and getting myself and my awesome back, I’ve taken some time at the end of the year to reflect on past accomplishments and set new goals, not resolutions, but goals. I start by looking back on what I said last year. In December last year, …
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