• Tiny Beautiful Things

    After reading Tiny Beautiful Things, Advice on love and life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed, I immediately logged it in my mind as one of my favourite books of all time. This is surprising to me because I don’t…

  • Disconnected and Out of Balance

    Sitting down to write a post today I feel torn. Should I write about a recent frivolous clothes shopping excursion? Or, should I write about the imbalance in the media. Both subjects are irritants for me right now. You’re probably…

  • Love Language

    There are moments in life when we feel a connection so deep words can hardly describe it. But how do we know that it’s real? This is the story of a boy who meets a girl and falls in love.…

  • Heels Firmly Dug In

    “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!” —White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland “It’s a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding…

  • The Dream

    I once had a dream that changed the way I thought about death from that point on. In my dream I was walking down a street with my friend, Tracy. We were shopping, looking through store windows and talking and…

  • How Do You Like Me So Far?

    Don’t answer that. For some reason it is painfully important what people think of me. Not only is it important to me but I worry about it. I don’t know why that is, but it is. It always has been.…

  • To This Day

    I wrote a post featuring Shane Koyczan, spoken word poet, writer and music man, 2 years ago titled We Are More. That poem inspired a myriad of feelings the first time I heard him perform it and it does again…

  • Happy Birthday Tracy!!

    “A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” – William Shakespeare (smart guy that Bill!) What a great year this will…

  • Black Heart, Red Heart or Meh…

    It’s almost that time of year again so I did a search on Google for the following: People who hate Valentines Day – 93,600,000 pages People who love Valentines Day – 988,000,000 pages People who don’t care about Valentines Day…

  • Inspired by Lungleavin Day

    Inspiration is all around us. I am often inspired by words artfully strung together, by music and colours and fresh air, or when I stop and look around at nature in all its beauty and truth, and again when I…

  • Is Fifty Really Nifty?

    Ok, this whole aging thing…I’m not sure I like it. I get that we all have to go through it because the alternative is, well, dying and I definitely do not want to do that for a very long time.…

  • The Sun Also Sets in Key West

    “Key West – Where The Weird Go Pro” – Written on a t-shirt displayed in the window of one of Key West’s many, many tacky t-shirt shops. The best humour is always born from truth and that particular t-shirt summed…

  • Christmas Spending – Ho Ho Holy Sh*t

    The count down has begun. We are weeks/days away from that gluttonous time of year that we in the 1st world call “Christmas”. There is debt to be accumulated, empty calories to scoff and guilt over and a wide swath…

  • I Wish You Enough

    “I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright. I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more. I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive. I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys…

  • The Right to Bare Breasts – Not Arms!

    Ahhh Florida. We’re back indulging in your warm salt water breezes, dodging pelican poop and trying not to step on your geckos.  We have settled in nicely now starting each day by taking turns with sections of the local paper…

  • Svaha Spirit Sunday ~ Life-isms

    “Life-isms”…visual mnemonic devices designed to help you remember what you already know.” Here’s a tiny 2-minute film, plus groovy grown-up stickers. Created by Amy Krouse Rosenthal who, we all know by now, is one creative cool lady! Svaha!

  • No Words Are Needed

    What would happen if we turned off all speech for a time; if we didn’t allow words of any kind to escape our lips? What would the world be like if we lost all language? Facebook would sure look different.…

  • Too Soon!

    Checked the date and yep, it’s November 8th! The 8th of November people. (Hence the moustache) Waaay before Christmas. So far before Christmas in fact, we haven’t even honoured our veterans on Remembrance Day yet. So I was thoroughly disappointed,…

  • Mmm Fresh Baked…Bread?

    First of all, happy November, or Movember as it’s called these days! Come on all you guys out there, be sure to get your prostate checked! Now, back to the bread…I found this little nugget while surfing around Mashable.com the…

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