Keeping Money Moving for All Our Sakes
I don’t like to say I hate anyone. Hate is an awful word. But if I had to apply it to a group, I’d put it on billionaires.
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Cruising Into Retirement
Some people have a firm plan for their later years. We are not some people.
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Corrall Your Pals at the Canals
One of Derek’s cousins recently moved to a place I’d never heard of. How could “the Venice of Ontario” escape my attention all these years?
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Seeking Seriously Crispy Bacon
It’s a well known fact that my husband loves bacon. Over the years he’s been given everything from bacon-flavoured lip balm to bacon-scented air fresheners.
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Grateful for My Lucky Life!
Gratitude does amazing things to the brain. It counteracts negativity bias. That’s the thought pattern that claims everything’s going to hell in a hand basket.
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With a Pet, You Never Stop Learning
Cuddles has just recovered from a gastro-intestinal illness. While I won’t go into gross details, I did learn some things.
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A Budding Novelist’s Update
“Tell me the secret to writing a book?” “Um, well, you sit down and write a book.”
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Tiny Font People
Are you irked by tiny fonts? Find them unnecessarily exclusionary? Wish you could tell tiny font people to increase their sizes, even a little bit?
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AI OMG
The other day I watched George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden eat tacos and laugh. Mocking, of course, the Cheeto in Chief’s latest nickname: TACO. (Trump Always Chickens Out.)
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The Ones That Got Away
Sometimes, you think back to the ones that got away.
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The Noise in Our Heads
The popularity of weight-loss drugs has revealed something so universal to some of us and unknown to others: food noise.
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Sometimes, Life Gives You a Sign
I was in Little Beach Shop here in Port Stanley one day last fall, poking around. Ann, the proprietor, had a sign for sale that looked familiar.
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Bye Bye HBC
Last week, we popped into the Bay at Masonville in London. I wanted to see for myself what the end of a 355-year history looked like.
…When Memories Take Flight
You’ve heard of repressed memories. What about a memory you can’t confirm and you wonder if your imagination made it up?
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May 27, 1935, My Father’s Day
I did a pretty good job of asking my parents things I wanted to know. But no matter how well you do, there’s always more. Losing one’s parents changes you in ways you can’t easily describe.
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A Road Trip Away From the Beach
We did more than plant flowers and veggies on the Victoria Day weekend. While thousands of people flocked to our lakeside village, we took a little road trip away from it. It was to see something I’ve wanted to see since we lived in Wallaceburg.
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The Long Weekend Planting Fiesta
Last summer, I grew only cherry tomatoes and flowers. We got more tomatoes than the year before, but then I went to see my friend Lianne. Her cherry tomatoes made mine look pathetic!
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Thanks for the Long Weekend, Vicky
I know everyone calls her Victoria, but I call her Vicky. We’re that close.
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