Today is Tomorrow’s Yesterday
The future is yours to make; the past is full of memories carved in stone. Somewhat paraphrased, I heard this statement recently and it struck a chord. Maybe it’s because I recently conducted a memoir workshop and watched people enthusiastically share their memories, uninhibited by embarrassment or their limited writing skills. Kudos to them! Our lives are, indeed, packed full of memories, permanently set in our past, irrevocably carved in stone. Some memories are warm and fuzzy and leave us...
Read MoreThe Most Important Things in Life Aren’t Things
This wooden plaque was a gift I received while on my book tour in the Maritimes in September 2012. It matches the one that hung on the wall in the home where I was staying. It has a ‘country’ look to it and it took me almost a year to hang it…more from finding the right place to display it—over our bay window at our trailer—than taking the time to do it. When I first saw it, I read it and thought, Hmmm, that’s interesting. And that was all. But, being that it hung front and centre...
Read MoreTo Milk or Not to Milk…That is the Question!
My husband laughs at me when I tell him I want to milk a cow. He doesn’t laugh in a ridiculing way; he just has this way of smiling with an almost invisible shake of the head. There is no rational explanation as to why I want to do this. I just do. Maybe it’s because I should have been born on a farm back in the 1800s, like Laura Ingalls. The problem with that concept is that I’d starve. How could I possibly eat what I’ve named, fed, petted or raised? And the whole idea of beheading,...
Read MoreWhen Life Throws You a Curve
I can think of many pleasant ways I could have ended this past busy work week: dinner with friends, a movie (if there’s one worth watching these days!), or enjoying an evening with my husband who had just returned home from a ten-day visit with our son in BC. And since the flip of the calendar welcomes not only a new month but sees me celebrating my birthday, I can also think of much more pleasurable ways to end a decade of my life than a visit to the emergency room at our local hospital....
Read MoreShould I or Shouldn’t I?
“Whatever comes our way, whatever battles we face, we always have a choice.” Spider-Man learned that from his friend, Harry. When I heard it, I backed up the CD and listened again, just to be sure I had heard correctly. And I had! It reminded me of something I had written down in my Potential Blog Thoughts journal. I can’t honestly say how I came by it, but it too, is worthy of noting. In fact, it speaks directly to the lesson Spider-Man learned, only takes it one step further: There are...
Read MoreSecure Passage vs Ragged Rocks
Most of us are familiar with the age-old expression, “The best laid scheme of mice and men often go awry.” (An adaptation from a line in To a Mouse by Robert Burns.) I had a best laid scheme for last week…to spend it hibernating at our trailer in the Muskokas, and it did not include relaxing in the sun with a book. I had planned on jumping into high gear with what I had written over the past several months to see where it would go. And the object of my endeavours? Several chapters,...
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