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Hello!  Is there anyone still out there?  It’s been a while – over a year, in fact. And I either need to shut this thing down, or recommit to staying more current. Today, I choose the latter, so allow me to reintroduce myself, as a reminder for the return visitors, or as a catchup forContinue reading “Bueller? Bueller?”

Mental Health Week 2024 runs until Sunday. I intended to post earlier in the week, in part because I’m overdue for a post, but I also wanted to do something to mark this awareness-raising week on the calendar. Mental health too often carries a stigma, and the only way to get past that is forContinue reading “Mental Health Week 2024”

Hello friends, it’s been a while. I knew it had been a long time since I posted, but didn’t realize it had been since September 2022. Shame on me! So much has happened, where to begin? Q4 2022 and Q1 2023 were the end of an era. My sister’s toxic ex’s reign of terror drewContinue reading “It’s been HOW long???”

Hello, friends! Where has the time gone? It’s September already? I am pleased to report that my experience with a garden has been much more successful this summer than last. Who remembers that disaster? I started out with more modest ambitions this year, and just stuck to a good plot at the end of theContinue reading “Green thumb? Me?”

My best friend Sinead likes to say that the universe puts you where you need to be. I’m not 100% sure I believe that, but 11 years ago tonight, I was right where I needed to be. It was the Saturday night of a long weekend, and I was home. I wasn’t traveling for work,Continue reading “Chelsea”

Abortion is on my mind, friends. I have never had an abortion. I say this not because I am especially virtuous, or pious. I say this because I am especially lucky to have never needed one. During my childbearing years, I took the necessary precautions, but I’d be disingenuous if I wasn’t honest about theContinue reading “Deep Thoughts”

Hello friends! How have you been? It’s been a minute since I’ve been on here. I’ve gotta be honest, folks, I’m in a rut. Work is going really well, all of the Babies are healthy and well, I’m healthy and well, but psychologically, I’m struggling. My home life has been a bit of a shitContinue reading “It’s been a minute…”

One thing you should know about me is that I worked in retail for most of my teen years, up until about 27 years old. Part-time, full-time, in management. Most of the time it was a pretty easy, very social job. I called it my Peter Pan job – great, until I decided to growContinue reading “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas”

As I’m sure you’ve read, Helga entered my life on October 22. She is my first new car in about 25 years. Living in Toronto for so long, I didn’t need a car, except for the occasional carshare through Autoshare. Since moving to the country, I had been driving a borrowed car from my sisterContinue reading “Getting to Know Helga”

In the last week, I’ve been told by two friends that I’m an inspiration to them. I must admit, that’s a hell of a thing. No more than six months ago, I was not in the best of spaces: I remember sitting in my sister’s car in the veterinarian’s parking lot, sobbing, while texting myContinue reading “Who knew?”