A post stroke journey back to the awesome me I used to be
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 …
Continue reading Don’t Look Back, You’re Not Going That Way!
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, …
Continue reading Another New Year, Welcome Back to the ’20’s
Wherever you are on this November 11th in the world there are surely memorial services being held. Especially in Europe. But even here in my wee corner of the world services were held this morning beginning around 10:45 am. Well that was when I arrived in the -6C at the Fernie Courthouse with my friend …
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 …