A post stroke journey back to the awesome me I used to be
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 …
Ooga Chaka ooga ooga Ooga Chaka ooga ooga I’m hooked on a feeling I’m high on believing you’re in love with me This is the song that plays over and over in my head and I hear my wee nephew Oliver’s voice singing it to me, his Auntie Hanna. It’s was a good trip more …
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 …
I have a two year gap in my CV timeline (2016-present) and until recently I haven’t been sure what to say or how to explain what I’ve been doing. I haven’t been on a “sabbatical” or “trying out retirement” or “doing nothing”. If you are reading this then you may be a subscriber to this …
The days are longer and darker. Many people suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). I think I'm one of them and maybe you are too. Let's try and kick those blues together with positive thinking, some warm,good memories, a few thoughts of the weekend that could be and of course, some happy music. It's cold …
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 …
I have moxie Do you? My grade 11& 12 typing teacher Mrs Flegg was a very interesting woman and now that I reflect on it, she was much more than met our very inexperienced eyes. I know now that those charming suits with the short frayed jackets were probably Chanel or at least a really …
The summer has been interesting here in my little corner of the world.....it's the first full summer I have spent entirely anywhere except the house I grew up in. In the beginning there were warm sunny days. Remember May 24 weekend I planted flowers with Lenka and now they are flourishing and over-flowing their boxes. …
Yesterday, a local said to me while at the gym "This must be the the best you've ever felt in your life?" I said "no, I've definitely felt better". She looked disappointed. Her point obviously was since she sees me at the gym several times a week, I must feel great and then made the …