Category Archives: Lessons, Mistakes & Misguided Thoughts

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you were able to spend your holidays in peace and with those closest to you. I had a peaceful Christmas with my family, parents, sisters—and their families—and then a quiet start to the new year with my own children. On January first I took a nice long walk aloneContinue reading “Remember The Two C’s Each New Year: CONQUER a Fear and CHANGE Your Passwords!”

Repetitive 2’s shall steer us straight into a year that seals our fate The minutes shall tick down this year and it will all be done I personally cannot wait to say goodbye to 2021! We came through on the other side of year two Although we are vaxxed we find ourselves having a flashbackContinue reading “2022”

Truth can be the kindest form of communication It can be the most intimate way we let someone we care about know how we feel Namely, how their actions have made us feel Brutal truth can be the most sincere way we express our emotions The ugly is not in its harsh way of deliveranceContinue reading “Brutal Truth”

I remember going to job interviews in my 20s and feeling extremely anxious right before I’d walk through the door. I would tell myself to think of someone who kicked ass in interviews and often times my younger sister would come to mind, so I would channel her. Always being myself of course, but IContinue reading “Who Inspired You?”

Sometimes the time is right. Sometimes the time is wrong. Sometimes it’s neither one, it’s just time. The tears are long gone along with the hope of renewal. You put your best foot forward But it was your soul that they coveted. Don’t look back they can’t hurt you anymore Cross the street, leave theirContinue reading “Endings”

The first warm spring day calls us out to come and play. Bikes are dusted off to ride, but chains unhinged forces us to have to step aside. Our favourite neighbour comes to help, quick quick the street awaits…but this driveway holds our truer fate. No time to turn, no time to run because anContinue reading “Slow Down For The Road Belongs To Us ALL”

If you believed they put a man on the moon Man on the moon If you believe there’s nothing up his sleeve Then nothing is cool Man On The Moon—Song by R.E.M. I recently heard this song on the radio which jogged an ancient memory of me lying on my bed with my eyes closedContinue reading “Perception: Maybe It’s Really Nothing”

To be forgiven is what we often desire, to forgive is what is expected of us, which can sometimes be difficult. We teach our children to “say sorry” when they have made a mistake or have hurt someone’s feelings—the child that is hurt is expected to accept the apology on the spot, supposedly resolving theContinue reading “The Art of Forgiveness”

In the good old days (you know you are getting up there in years when you start a sentence like that) the only distraction I had was the television, and maybe the telephone —if I got a chance on the phone and if I was able to get through without a busy tone (NB IContinue reading “Perfect Procrastinator”