November 2025
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There are a lot of foods that I have had to say goodbye to, or severely limit, over the course of my chronic illness journey. Between GERD and my IC, tomato sauce is something that will consistently make me feel dreadful. I’ve tried popping a Prelief beforehand, but it doesn’t offer enough protection against the…
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Each year, I set an overall reading goal for myself on my Good Reads account. I read a lot of books with my kids during our school lessons, so the bulk of my reading in recent years has tended to be non-fiction or middle grade novels. Part of this goal was to light a fire…
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I think I included this goal with the hopes that Raymond and I would get to go somewhere fun, and new-to-us to eat on a date. Sometimes I am a little too optimistic, though, which is mind boggling given I have had to fight against a glass-half-empty-and-it’s-leaking outlook all of my life. We haven’t been…
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I will always have a deep rooted place in my heart for Canada. While I have been living in the United States for longer than I ever spent living on Canadian soil, it is where I was born and where I spent much of my childhood. The better part of fifteen years of my life…