by admin | Mar 22, 2016 | Blog, Resilience, Uncategorized, Women and Politics
I am not a coin collector but this morning I bought the Canadian Mint’s 100th Anniversary of Women’s Right to Vote dollar coins. Five coins for $5, shipping and handling included. Those of us older than dare I say 40 remember what it was like to become a woman in the...
by admin | Dec 22, 2015 | A wee bit of a rant, Blog, Uncategorized
No good deed shall go unpunished is a warning, not to those performing good deeds, but rather for those fearing the performing of good deeds. It is an empty threat for the good deed doer by those who fear the impact of good deeds. It is an indicator of the power that...
by admin | Nov 24, 2015 | Blog, Book: Grief is..., Grief, Resilience, Uncategorized
Learning to live again is thinking what you are doing now is the hardest thing you’ve had to do so far and realizing you have felt this way about so many of the other things you have had to do. And smiling at yourself as you realize whatever task it is you are...
by admin | Oct 9, 2015 | Blog, Eclectic Living, Resilience, Uncategorized
Yes. Is it also one of the scariest and hardest things to do in the world? Absolutely. After all if love wasn’t so great we wouldn’t have countless gazillion dollar industries trying to sell us all of its accessories: wear this cologne/perfume, dress this way, take...
by admin | Mar 12, 2015 | Blog, Eclectic Living, Uncategorized
What is it about new babies? Is it that they smell so wonderful that they’ve made a product (baby powder) that is supposed to smell like a newborn (it doesn’t come close). Is it their teeny tininess? How exactly is it that something so small can be a miniature version...
by admin | Feb 23, 2015 | Blog, Grief, Resilience, Uncategorized
1. Will I ever recognize myself in the mirror again? 2. If I stop crying every day or almost everyday will the puffiness around my eyes subside? (yes) 3. Is there a skincare product that will hide the truckload of new lines that have cropped up around my eyes? (nope-...
