Finally! The diaries are available! Bias aside, this is a sweet and engaging read. My editor said it best, “This unmitigated view into a young…
I live with 25 houseplants of 19 different varieties. The oldest is a Spineless Yucca I purchased in 1978 at a Dominion grocery store. My…
My long-time friend and favourite resource, the Concise Oxford Dictionary defines overhaul as, “to take to pieces in order to examine and repair if necessary.”…
If there is one lesson I have found useful from my Mother’s diaries it would be her annual habit of assessing the previous year and…
Creativity evolves; by definition it can’t be stationary. As part of an overhaul of this entire site I reviewed blog posts from the very beginning….
Covid was a major disrupter to my family’s long standing Christmas traditions. Pre-covid, we had a large family dinner, including gift-giving. “Nothing I have to…
It started out as simple curiosity. Never in a million years did I think I would develop an addiction to TikTok. For all my rants…
There is a peacefulness to old-school analog technology that is sorely missing from the data-mining, invasive smart technologies we have become accustomed to. Specifically, I’m…
Regardless of how old you are, when you look back, does it seem like your life has happened in a flash? In particular, do those…
Shame is a powerful silencer. My working theory is that the degree to which one is comfortable sharing their shameful secrets is the degree to…