Yesterday I was leaving the spare bedroom that has become my home office and got a small shock when I turned off the light switch.…
Something Good Needs to Come From This
About two years ago I sat in my supervisor’s office, speaking with her just after we’d gotten off a call with one of the many…
What Do I Want to Keep Doing?
I think I’ve mentioned that my team at the university has a weekly meeting virtual where we share something about ourselves based on a question that…
Fun in Unlikely Situations
On Saturday it started to snow and continued snowing through to Sunday when it really started to snow. It was the worst blizzard we’d had…
We Need You
This has been a rough week, within a rough year, and we still have very challenging times ahead of us. How do we keep moving…
Catching Up With Better Me
I launched this blog in the Fall of 2017 and continued it through a very challenging bout of depression that started not quite a year…
Find the Simple Pleasures
It snowed this week. It’s the first snow of the season, which seems strange to me because there was still snow on the ground from…
Birds In My House
When we bought our current house 11 years ago, we noticed a few quirky things that the previous owners had done. It wasn’t until we…
Mourn and Then Honour With Action
Last Friday evening I got a phone call from my friend Wenona. She wanted to know if I was okay, given the news. I hadn’t…
Exponential Growth
I think we’ve all become much more aware lately about how something can grow exponentially. Two cases of COVID-19 becomes four, and then 16, which…