I own a smartphone. I can connect with friends, family members, and professional groups via text, or Zoom. But my readers … My darling readers…
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Sep 29
Never Again
#truthandreconciliation #theywerechildren #fightdiscrimination #embracediversity #orangeshirtday #september30
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Apr 22
Steady as She Goes
The latest Covid-19 development in my home province is a travel ban. I get why our government is doing it; I’m still furious it’s come to this. For the last year, the one way Hubs and I managed to muddle through not being able to hang out with friends and family was to escape in …
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Apr 20
This Too Shall Pass
I’ve been calling it PSD (Pandemic Stress Disorder) and Pandemic Ugh. This New York Times article by organizational psychologist, Adam Grant, defines the emotional and physical lethargy many of us are puddling through as: Languishing, a term that for me, conjures much better imagery. Instead of imagining a blind mouse bouncing off the walls of …
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Feb 10
Save and Salvage
“Well, it seems the copy of the WIP I found in my email from 2013 Deb, wasn’t the final version. I found a…”
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Jan 28
Echoes of Memory
Ostensibly, when a chick flies the nest, the nest should feel bigger. More expansive. But with two gone and one prepping to fly away tomorrow, our nest feels like it’s shrinking. Folding in on itself, like Origami; changing shape without changing foundation. The universe condensing around echoes of memory that grow louder, and keener with …
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Jan 21
Countdown to True Love – Share to Win!
I’m hosting a contest for one lucky winner to win a custom tote and bookmark from me, and a bottle of Mon Guerlain from Parisian parfum maker, Guerlain, est. 1828. Click through to learn more! Contest details below: COUNTDOWN to TRUE LOVE, Share to Win, CONTEST ENTRY RULES Share to Win – Entrant must Follow/Like …
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Jan 10
Countdown to True Love
“Before she could melt into the jungle at her back, he turned towards the water and, to her increasing horror—and deepening delight—loosened his breeches and shoved them down.”
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Jan 01
Amazon and Tears
I still remember, as an eleven-year-old, scouring the library shelves at school for the latest Black Stallion and or Nancy Drew book, and later, in my bedroom at night…
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