by admin | Mar 4, 2025 | Uncategorized, Women and Politics
Nellie McClung, Feminist, Politician, Writer First, they came for the journalists, and I did not speak up because I am not a journalist. Then they came for the academics, and I did not speak up because I not an academic. Then they came for the artists, the poets, the...
by admin | Jan 11, 2023 | Blog, Grief, Resilience, Uncategorized
Fact: Socializing after being widowed is different. The Story: I’d not only lost my partner in crime and everyday shenanigans, but I also no longer knew who to go to the movies, theater, or eat out with. My plus one was no more, and I was no longer someone’s...
by admin | Dec 23, 2022 | Eclectic Living, Grief, Uncategorized
As I sit at my desk, I watch a kaleidoscope of frosted patterns dance across my windows. I remember how on winter mornings as a child my sister and I would stand on the edge of our beds in our little nylon nightgowns and blow on the ice encrusted panes that lined one...
by admin | Aug 30, 2022 | A wee bit of a rant, Blog, Eclectic Living
“Platinum Blonde” is one of the nicer things someone has said to me since I stopped putting highlights into my every changing hair. “If you’re over 65…” was one of the least, if not the least, welcome comment I’ve heard. I’m 55. The funny thing is that I would never...
by admin | Mar 11, 2022 | Blog, Eclectic Living, Uncategorized
Coffee & Chocolate: Pandemic Essentials and Self-care It’s the middle of March in Toronto and it’s snowing. Time to laugh, remember pandemic March 2020 & 2021, and keep moving forward. Three things I said 1. “I didn’t get back to you yet because I was...
