Day 2

Normally I like to blog in the morning, but this morning I wasn't at home when I woke up. I had gone to my parents for a little New Year visit and to make pizzas with my mom. Mmmmmm, pizza! I came home around lunchtime when the snow was just starting to kick off. Luckily...

A Tapping Toes Week

For almost a decade now, it feels like I'm always struggling to get it together in one way or another ... relationships, jobs, money, health, home, happiness ... if I've been doing well in one area, all the others have been a disaster. There were moments in 2017 where it felt like I was pulling...

Words, Captured & Kept

Months ago my niece was here excitedly looking through some of my old totes filled with books, movies, souvenirs, photo albums, cards, letters and other mementos that I have never organised into a proper home. We spent a whole afternoon reading letters to each other. Most of them were from my early years in Toronto...

The Natural World

I grew up in the woods. There's really no other way to say it. Growing up I couldn't see any neighbours houses, just trees. As a little girl my days were spent outside in the trees playing house. I pretended the stand of trees between my house and the lower driveway, which went out to...

Prompt: Mirror, Mirror

“When I look in the mirror, I . . .” . . . can't believe the woman I've become. Where have the years gone? When did those little crow's feet form in the corners of my eyes? When did I become so shapeless? Who am I now? When you're young older people tell you to...

2018 NB Spring Festival Scene! Where Should I Go?

This year I want to go to festivals! Last year I finally got to attend the Larlee Creek Hullabaloo in Perth Andover and if you know me at all or if you have been following me online since last summer you will know that it was just an epic experience! So much so that this...