My Life Being Me
2012-98-29 Missing Puzzle Pieces - I was around the age of 8 or 9 when Michael Corsey from down the street cornered me in the playground at school and asked if he could fertilize me. Read More~
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2012-06-13 - Sweet-Scented Memories - My earliest memory is of lying on my tummy on the lawn with the yellow sun on my back and the cool green grass underneath me. I was closely studying a clover blossom, entranced by the tiny varicoloured petals that subtly changed from purple to pink to soft white at their tips. Read More~
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2012-05-04 I Am NOT A Crazy Cat Person! - Oh My God! My pets are weird. My dog, Bojangles, well...you've all read about him in past posts. But I also have a cat. A strange cat. A cat who tries to talk. Read More~
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2012-03-02 My Guy is Indiana Jones - If you're into that whole train-of-consciousness thing, then you've come to the right place because I am about to explain the exact chain of events that led to me sitting here, typing on my keyboard as I consider just how great my guy is. Read More~
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2012-02-27 Other People's Sons -It was later that day we heard the news. A VIA Rail passenger train has derailed in Ontario. At least three people dead. Many more wounded. Read More~
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2012-02-16 An Update on My Sister - I have never used my blog as a personal journal, and while I may admire the courage of those of you who do, I am far too private a person to let the world into my stuff. Read More~
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2012-01-18 Compliments From Weirdos - My husband isn't one for compliments. He never has been. I will admit, whenever I put an extra effort into my appearance, he'll always acknowledge my efforts and tell me I look nice. Read More~
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2012-01-11 When Divorce is Right - sometimes, everything works out; hopes become reality, faith proves fruitful, and contentment abounds. Do you know that feeling? That all-is-right-with-the-world feeling? When you are certain, without doubt, that everything worked out exactly as it was meant to? Read more ~
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2012-06-13 - Sweet-Scented Memories - My earliest memory is of lying on my tummy on the lawn with the yellow sun on my back and the cool green grass underneath me. I was closely studying a clover blossom, entranced by the tiny varicoloured petals that subtly changed from purple to pink to soft white at their tips. Read More~
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2012-05-04 I Am NOT A Crazy Cat Person! - Oh My God! My pets are weird. My dog, Bojangles, well...you've all read about him in past posts. But I also have a cat. A strange cat. A cat who tries to talk. Read More~
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2012-03-02 My Guy is Indiana Jones - If you're into that whole train-of-consciousness thing, then you've come to the right place because I am about to explain the exact chain of events that led to me sitting here, typing on my keyboard as I consider just how great my guy is. Read More~
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2012-02-27 Other People's Sons -It was later that day we heard the news. A VIA Rail passenger train has derailed in Ontario. At least three people dead. Many more wounded. Read More~
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2012-02-16 An Update on My Sister - I have never used my blog as a personal journal, and while I may admire the courage of those of you who do, I am far too private a person to let the world into my stuff. Read More~
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2012-01-18 Compliments From Weirdos - My husband isn't one for compliments. He never has been. I will admit, whenever I put an extra effort into my appearance, he'll always acknowledge my efforts and tell me I look nice. Read More~
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2012-01-11 When Divorce is Right - sometimes, everything works out; hopes become reality, faith proves fruitful, and contentment abounds. Do you know that feeling? That all-is-right-with-the-world feeling? When you are certain, without doubt, that everything worked out exactly as it was meant to? Read more ~
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2011-11-11 Enough is Enough - lately, I've been feeling limited by my own theme of "scattered joy". Unable to assemble even a trickle of humour or light-heartedness, and unwilling to open a vein and share my misery with you, I've been avoiding my blog. I won't go into the gory details, but I will share this much - I've been spending a lot of time wondering when enough is enough. Read more ~
2011-09-29 Part III - Down The Rabbit Hole - I have been down the rabbit hole and I can tell you - Wonderland is no tea party! Much like Alice, who grew very tired of sitting by her sister on the river bank and so decided to follow a white rabbit down its hole, my own sister left my side to jump head-first down a rabbit hole. But unlike Alice's sister, who was absorbed in her book and failed to noticed her sister's absence, I chased after mine. Read more ~
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2011-09-13 Three Sheets to the Wind - Being novice sailors, we entered a race the other weekend with the personal goal of actually crossing the finish line before timing out. Throughout the very long race with barely any wind, we could hear thunder rolling off in the distance and saw an angry purple cloud bank forming upwind of us. We were in last place and the other boats had finished the race and returned to port. The wind was picking up and the finish line was getting closer and closer - but so was the storm front. It wasn't a race against the other boats, it was a race against the storm. Read more ~
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2011-08-29 Licking the Cream Off My Whiskers - I can't seem to muster up any sense of humour today. It's not that I'm feeling glum or depressed, it's actually quite the opposite - I'm feeling very happy - just not in an excited tale-wagging-puppy kind of way. I'm more like the cat licking cream off her whiskers. I'm content and mellow. Satisfied. Read more~
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2011-08-02 Missing Daughter - Read all about it~_______________
2011-07-14 2011 Blogher Voices of the Year - CPR For My Battered Hope - Hope. It's a very small word that carries such enormous weight. It sustains us as we attempt to reach for our dreams and nourishes us whenever fear and despondency threatened to deter us from our path. It begins as a sparkly thing, an effervescent bubble bright and shiny with optimism and naivety. But Rejection occurs. Criticism. Dejection. Frustration. Obstacles are thrown in our path. Our work is discounted, diminished. Hope becomes battered. Bruised. Tarnished. Read more ~
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2011-07-05 Family Wins Lottery and Friend Slowly Recovers - Oh man! Where to begin? I guess I'll start with a confession/apology - blogging is a WHOLE lot easier during the long Canadian winter when I have nothing else to do. But in my defence, I've lived a whole lifetime in this past week! I'll try to give you a synopsis, but I forgot my camera (actually I've misplaced it's memory card) so I've had to pilfer the photos from others. Read more ~_______________
2011-06-21 Daughter Graduates While Mother Cries - My daughter is a December baby, which means she was only three when she started to school. Three! She was still sucking her thumb and taking afternoon naps when she began attending Junior Kindergarten. I will never forget her first day. It was with great trepidation that I led her to her classroom, worried there might be tears and separation anxiety. And there was - on my part! Read more ~_______________
2011-06-13 I'm a Cool Mom... Right?- I was recently at a West 49 store, trying to blend in to the super cool skateboard, snowboard & surf shop while my son shopped for jeans. West 49 is one of those stores that blast their hip music from an amazing sound system. Loud. And I'm enjoying it as I rummage through the clothing racks, occasionally pulling out a tiny little outfit and wondering if it's REALLY a dress or actually just a long top. And why do they consider a size 6 to be a Large? Read more ~
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2011-05-30 Absolutely Absymal! Those of you who read my post Avast Ye Scallywags will know that my husband and I are new sailors. last year, we bought a MacGregor 26x and set about teaching ourselves how to sail. They say you can learn how to sail in an afternoon but it takes a lifetime to master it. So... Read more ~
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2011-05-13 Part II - Velma Dinkley Makes a Miraculous Recovery - I've always described myself as an eternal optimist and I thought my wellspring of hope and optimism was inexhaustible. Turns out, I was wrong. Perhaps the death of my parents had caused a crack in the reservoir that let my faith seep out undetected. Read more~
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2011-05-01 Nothing Funny - I'm sorry, but I have nothing funny or amusing to share with you today. Truth is, I've been busy driving back & forth to the hospital to visit my sister who underwent brain surgery last Thursday. Read more ~
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2011-04-15 Part I - My Sister is Velma Dinkley - "To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time." Read more ~
2011-05-01 Nothing Funny - I'm sorry, but I have nothing funny or amusing to share with you today. Truth is, I've been busy driving back & forth to the hospital to visit my sister who underwent brain surgery last Thursday. Read more ~
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2011-04-15 Part I - My Sister is Velma Dinkley - "To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time." Read more ~
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2011-04-04 Avast Ye Scallywags! - "Let's hoist the main and trim the jib! We're running abeam on a starboard tack!" Huh!?? Last year, when my husband & I bought a sailboat and set about teaching ourselves to sail, we quickly learned that the first challenge would be to understand the language. Read more ~_______________
2011-04-01 Ear Worms and Hiccups - My husband likes to tell me he has no sense of humour, but we both know he's bluffing because he's always making me laugh. He has this thing that he does - a sort of verbal hiccup that erupts at surprising moments and always cracks me up. Read more ~
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2011-03-18 Sanity Restored - Yeah! It happened! They told me it would, but I doubted them. Seriously doubted them! I mean, it just began to seem like too much to ask for, like an impossible dream. I lost hope. Truly. I began to feel like nothing would ever change, that I'd be buried under this mountain of icy oppression forever. But it happened! Want to see what I'm going on about? Read more~
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2011-02-28 My Quiet House - My house is quiet again - calm, peaceful and oh-so-very quiet. Reading Week is over, my two fledglings have flown the coop, and once again my husband & I are empty-nesters. Since our youngest went off to university last September, we've slowly adjusted to having the house to ourselves. Read more ~
2011-02-28 My Quiet House - My house is quiet again - calm, peaceful and oh-so-very quiet. Reading Week is over, my two fledglings have flown the coop, and once again my husband & I are empty-nesters. Since our youngest went off to university last September, we've slowly adjusted to having the house to ourselves. Read more ~
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2011-02-17 My First Award! - My new blogger friend Michelle at Heartfelt Balance, Handmade Life has awarded me with the Versatile Blogger Award. Thanks so much Michelle! This award comes with instructions to include a link back to the award-giver, share 7 fun tidbits about myself, and to pass it on to 15 newly found blogs. The first step is easy...but the rest? GROAN..... You see, I'm the paradoxical blogger - I don't really like to share stuff about myself. Read more ~
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2011-02-11 Glum Gloomy & Grim - This post come with a warning: NO JOY TO BE FOUND HERE! It's true...I'm feeling about as joyful as a wet newspaper in a snowdrift. I can't help it - I've tried but I can't muster up even a modicum of merriment. Read more ~
2011-02-17 My First Award! - My new blogger friend Michelle at Heartfelt Balance, Handmade Life has awarded me with the Versatile Blogger Award. Thanks so much Michelle! This award comes with instructions to include a link back to the award-giver, share 7 fun tidbits about myself, and to pass it on to 15 newly found blogs. The first step is easy...but the rest? GROAN..... You see, I'm the paradoxical blogger - I don't really like to share stuff about myself. Read more ~_______________
2011-02-11 Glum Gloomy & Grim - This post come with a warning: NO JOY TO BE FOUND HERE! It's true...I'm feeling about as joyful as a wet newspaper in a snowdrift. I can't help it - I've tried but I can't muster up even a modicum of merriment. Read more ~
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