January 2025
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I don’t often end up watching television shows without one or all of my family members. My husband, Raymond, and I sometimes unwind in the evening with a series, but if it’s good we end up breezing through the episodes. If it’s just entertaining enough, yet hasn’t fully drawn us in, then we can go…
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This past week-end, my husband offered to go over my Forty Before Forty list with me so that I could break it into smaller bites, because I was starting to wonder just how feasible some of it was. When he heard that I had included “acquiring” a porch goose on my list, I heard the…
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I added a cleaning task on my Forty Before Forty list because it was a difficult one for me to accomplish, otherwise it would have been done a lot sooner. I figured if I put it on my list it would encourage me to find a moment and a way to make my bird decor…
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I grew up in southern Ontario, where blustery, freezing weather was expected every winter. Walking to school with snow drifts as tall as me (granted, I’m not exactly tall), and slip-sliding around at recess because the ground was covered in a sheet of ice, wasn’t unheard of. Along with the unpleasantness of dirty sleet, chattering…
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I wrote this to work through some of the emotions that come with my chronic illness journey, and the struggle it is to get a diagnosis for my never-ending pain, to find a manageable solution, while reconciling it all with my faith. I’m a work-in-progress, but at the end of every painful day I find…
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I challenged myself to complete a “Thirty Before Thirty” list, not surprisingly, for my thirtieth birthday. I’ve learned a few things since then, and am hoping that with this newfound wisdom these forty (mostly) new goals will be more achievable. I aimed to find a middle ground between too specific and too vague. I also…
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I am the sort of person who has been known to write something down, decide it’s too messy, and toss the whole sheet so I can start over again. I have been trying to keep an optimistic outlook on life, reminding myself that a rough start to the new year does not mean it’s like…