The Ovaries Have It
Let’s talk about menopause. Again. Perhaps forever. You’ll see.
…Personal Life
Kloss 2 Cross Another Great Lake for Mental Health
At age 24, our friend Jason Kloss became the youngest person to swim the 65 km crossing of Lake Huron. His grandfather had completed that swim three decades earlier. Jason raised $22,000 for cancer research and his life changed forever. He met a beautiful reporter, my former colleague Avery, who was covering the event. They just celebrated their ninth wedding anniversary, and they have a five-year-old daughter. And now he’s set his sights on Lake Ontario.
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Dancing to my Own Beat
A happy flashback happened again last Wednesday, as I popped into the washroom at Milestone’s where I’d been having lunch with my friend Laurie. Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’ was playing overhead and it transported me back to drum lessons, and how that song was the only one I came close to mastering.
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Moving Toward Mindfulness with A New Writing Venture
I’ve referred to Stoicism several times on this page. I consider myself a student of the philosophy; I don’t think anyone ever has it “mastered”. Life throws too many curveballs for that to occur. And I’m very much a work in progress.
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The Good Old Days Depend on Your Perception
“Kids today! (Hitches up stretchy pants to just below armpits.) They just don’t have the moral code we had when I was their age. Why, back in my day…”
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My Baby Brother and His Big Birthday
This is a rerun from 2018. Yesterday was my brother’s birthday! So in honour of him, I present this look at our lives as siblings.
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Vacation Notice and Father’s Day
We are off on a motorcycle trip! We are traveling Cape Breton’s Cabot Trail for the second time. It’s a bucket-list ride for our friend Tam, and we’re happy to do it again. It’s been (gulp) about 13 years since our first time around it.
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Breaking Down the Wall of Sound
Traffic. Construction. Lawn Maintenance. Barking dogs. The world has gotten noisier. You might think that someone who wears hearing aids wouldn’t notice.
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The Cat in the Lap
The last time I wrote about Cuddles, he was recovering from a fairly serious issue. That was in March. Now, you’d never know it happened. He’s his old self.
…Fashion Compassion
My fashion sense – if I ever had any – has abandoned me.
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My “Sacred Bowl” and New Pottery Bowl
I don’t know whether I was the first female in my high school to take shop class. But I was the only girl in the class when I took it. We learned to weld, use a wood lathe, and other things that scared and thrilled me. I also studied harder than anyone and pissed off my male classmates when I aced every test.
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Dandy Lions
Imagine a world where a weed killer manufacturer sits in his lair, musing about ways to take over the world. Think of an evil genius like Gru, the head of the minions.
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Babes Boycotting Booze
Add this to the list of things I wish were around when I was younger: No Booze Babes.
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What Little Girls Don’t Understand
For most of my life, it never occurred to me that some people simply ate whatever they felt like eating.
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Run Towards the Danger
I’ve borrowed the title of Sarah Polley’s book for this post. I just finished reading it and give it five stars. It’s not a memoir, exactly. It’s a collection of essays about pivotal times in her life. (It was published last year, before she won the Oscar for Women Talking.)
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Turning Over A New Leaf
That is not my orchid above! I took a selfie with it at the Four Seasons in Maui in February as inspiration for my orchid at home, as I attempted to bring it back to life. I thought maybe this photo would give it something to live up to!
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