My sweet was up early this morning. I found him comfortably reclined in his chair, watching some sort of fishing show. I leaned down to give him a kiss and he said “Happy Valentine’s Day.” (He remembered, good, this is not always the case.) I returned the greeting and handed him a big, red envelope. […]
Light Lessons
How To Be A Good Mother-in-Law
My mother taught me a lot of things. She taught me to bake a delicious pie and roast a chicken. She taught me how to sew on a button and embroider a pillowcase. She taught me the importance of not cutting paper with my fabric scissors. Like I said, she taught me a lot of […]
They all end with a bang…
For a while now, I’ve been thinking of writing about my complicated relationship with animals. Pets, really. I’ve thought long and hard about it for a couple of reasons: I know, with absolute certainty, that I am going to offend someone. I don’t like to offend people, but it’s going to happen if I write a post […]
The Sound of Silence
I did something this morning that I haven’t done in a really long time. I turned off the radio on my drive into town. Usually I listen to the news or a podcast, sometimes I’ll listen to music, but not this morning. This morning I was craving some quiet. More than that really, I was […]
Rethinking the “Golden Years”
I went to visit my Aunt the other day. She’s living in an extended care facility. While her mind is sharp, her body has betrayed her with the tremors of Parkinson’s disease and brittle bones. Her life has been reduced to mostly the confines of her room, which is decorated with the beautiful and intricate […]
The Day of Great Humiliation
Everyone else was laughing. I wasn’t. I was hunched down in my seat, face turned toward the bus window…waiting…waiting until my stop when I could get off that stupid school bus and away from those rotten boys. At the time I was glad there weren’t more kids left on the bus, but I also knew […]
How I learned to talk so people will listen…
I live about a half hour from town so I do a lot of driving. I prefer talk radio so my choices are limited to CBC, which I enjoy, or podcasts that I download because I’m too cheap to pay for so-called “commercial-free” satellite radio. My favourite podcast is TEDRadio. They are a mashup of […]
26 Things I’ve Learned About Marriage
This is the eve of mine and My Sweet’s wedding anniversary. Tomorrow we will have been married for 26 years. It has been an adventure from day one, filled with challenges, twists, and turns. Our highlight reel would be long and our blooper reel would be hilarious. I wouldn’t want to be on this journey […]
Learning lessons from our little people
Our little people were out for a visit yesterday. My goodness, but the house comes to life when they walk in the door! They go straight to the hall cupboard where the toys are kept and promptly start dragging things out. Playtime commences. I think there are a few things that they enjoy the most […]
Living on the far side of motherhood
There are some truths that you really only understand from the far side. Not the comic (although they are pretty funny and twisted-ly true-ish). What I mean is that when you are young, or in the midst of an experience, some smarty pants comes along and drops a pearl of wisdom in your lap and, […]
