As the numbers of my household members has shrunk over the past few years, it has become harder and harder to keep up the magical feeling that comes with the […]

I’m freaking out. In January, I was one of those people who was paying attention. I was devouring world news and knew about the Coronavirus and I started to get […]

I originally wrote this post for the Huffington Post in 2016. Since then, my hometown has a new symbol that lines our streets in the weeks leading up to Remembrance […]

The weather here in southern Ontario is glorious. No other word for it. We are being teased with this last burst of warm temperatures, lovely breezes and blue skies. The […]

Where there are secrets, there is shame. Shame can only exist when things are kept secret. Healing cannot happen in the shadow of shame. These are not my words but […]

So I’m about to step into very scary territory. My heart is racing just typing these words and knowing I’m crossing into a place of more honesty and sharing. It […]

This post was put together late Thursday afternoon. I dug back into the archives of my old blog from when my kids were younger, in search of a specific time […]

The pandemic has put a strain on so many small businesses and I thought I would do my part to support them in a weekly feature that we’ll call Small […]

I put this website together thinking it would be my written word- companion of my steps towards the next phase of my life. I’ve strayed a bit from that personal […]

On September 4th, I launched a little passion project that I thought would be my own space to sort out my thoughts and work through my tough stuff. The moment […]