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Personal Life
Roll, Baby, Roll!
On Saturday night we went to a live roller derby game. You heard me! Roller derby is back, and it’s more popular than we knew. …
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No Mice for Spice
The cat’s vigil at the downstairs fridge continues, off and on. He is on high alert for a critter beneath it. Â The only problem is we’ve pulled it out and cleaned behind it and there is nothing there. And if there was something there, it wasn’t there long. Â …
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An Icky Sign of Wellness
On Monday morning at 3:20 am I stumbled out of bed and into the hallway. Then I immediately returned because something on the floor caught my eye. Â Â …
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Post-Op Spice
The veterinary surgeon couldn’t say enough about how well-behaved and wonderful our cat Spice is and we beamed like proud parents. …
Family Matters
Some people say it’s insane to spend hundreds of dollars on an operation for a cat when you can replace him with another one so much cheaper.  None of those people live in this house. …
A Medical Breakthrough That Hits Close to Home
Researchers at Western University believe they have a potential treatment for the number one cause of in-hospital deaths. And it happens to be what felled me in February 2011: sepsis. …
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Then and Now
Dr. Seuss once said, “Don’t be sorry that it’s over. Be glad that it happened.”  That’s how I remind myself to feel about my time at 680 News when another year passes since I left, and I feel wistful about leaving a job and a work family I loved so much. …
Sibling Rivalry
This Throwback Thursday was originally posted on October 29, 2013.
The email subject line read “Damn you!” …
Ladies, If You’re Ever Called “High Maintenance”…
I have news for you. You’re not. I don’t care if you order your pie like Meg Ryan’s character in When Harry Met Sally, you go girl. Last week I heard about the highest maintenance woman ever. …
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Facebook Fakery
You hear about these Facebook scams.  We talk about them on the air because we know they are happening but until last weekend, it had never happened to me.  I was the intended victim. …
An Ugly, Perfect Pillow
Every once in a while I forget I’m not supposed to lift anything heavy. After all, this not-lifting thing is only a couple of years old, since my whiplash injury in a car accident on Springbank Drive in February 2011. I’ve taken good care of it and recovered quite nicely. …
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Airstream Update
If I could save time in a bottle I’d give it to my husband so he could get more hours inside the 1969 Airstream we”re renovating.  I say “we” even though I haven’t done a thing yet! I’m involved in decisions but no actual effort until after the grunt work is done. …
Approaching Middle Age
During a Facebook chat with my 21-year-old nephew yesterday I jokingly told him that the older you get, the older middle age gets. …
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A Married Conversation
ME: Gad, I wish you weren’t so dead set against me getting a little bit of Botox, just a bit, just between the eyes. I know you’re totally against it. I just wish you weren’t. …
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