Back to Class
When I woke up Thursday morning, the idea of going back to school was not on my mind. In fact, it hasn’t been on my mind for, well, decades. And Continue Reading →
Category Archives: lifeingeneral
Milestones
In the past few weeks I have passed a few more milestones. I’ve been in the apartment a little over a year now. We sold the house (that was an Continue Reading →
Ink & Me
On Friday, I overheard an endearing little conversation between a mother and her young daughter. A glance showed the girl to be about 4 I’d guess; her mother in her Continue Reading →
Disruption in Space-Time
Well, maybe not so dire. But shifts and changes are afoot. After a lot of years of entangled and co-hosted websites, Shawn and I spent several hours over a few Continue Reading →
My Joy Takes Nothing From You
I can’t fully look forward without looking back, so I will start with wise words from Frazey Ford that helped to keep my head above water through the middle of Continue Reading →
More Words, Better Balance
Week two of NaNoWriMo didn’t get me very far ahead. As writing goes, I had one “good” day and a bunch of “almost enough” days but I still wrote every Continue Reading →
The Bond I Never Expected
Film and television love to portray the Mother In Law as the impossible relationship. It is one that is always fraught with tension on screen. In reality, I was often Continue Reading →
Back to the Beer Fest
I missed the Great Canadian Beer Fest last year — Shawn and I couldn’t justify the cost and didn’t want to volunteer — and this year I decided I would Continue Reading →
Recalculating Route
This year has proven to be… interesting… in that (fake) Chinese Curse kind of way. Devastating lows, amazing highs. Losing friends, meeting new ones. Grieving. Dreaming. Daring. All of it Continue Reading →
Clutter-busting is Getting Easier
I returned to Blackwood over the weekend at Shawn’s urging to go through those boxes I’d ignored in storage. I didn’t want to — in my mind, I was letting Continue Reading →