Why would I ever post anything on YouTube? Why do I make the trek to visit the Victoria Highland Games every year? Why do I endure the long weekend ferry line ups? Why am I such a big fan of the SFU Pipe Band? Here’s why… It’s become a tradition. I visit some of my […]
People saw the picture and said I looked calm and serene. Wrong. What was really going on inside my head? “Don’t drop it. Don’t trip. Don’t cry. Seriously… when you look into his eyes, don’t cry!” I waited seventeen years to see Tai Situ Rinpoche again. I would never have guessed I would be one […]
This morning I woke up without an idea for today’s blog. After a couple of minutes looking at my Twitter feed the topic became obvious. My friends were back! Trump and fires and where the rich are hiding their money can only divert our attention for a few news cycles. Woody is back! Ghomeshi was […]
I went to a funeral today. I promised I wouldn’t blog about the death. We all have secrets. We all tell lies. I looked around the room and wondered how many know the truth. You may think you know, but are you just kidding yourself? Do we have any sense of what someone else is […]
When you receive a rejection letter from an agent you’ve set your heart and hope on, it helps if you’ve been to the Surrey International Writers’ Conference. Not because they taught you all the ins and outs of getting published. Not because they’ve given you the tools to pitch again. Not because they showed you […]
Years ago I realized my dream wasn’t going to come true and I wasn’t marrying George Clooney. Being George’s wife would have made me happy but he married someone else. I was left to find other ways to be content. I survived… and oddly enough, I’m happy. When I hear a local news report about […]
It was going to happen sooner or later. I can blame it all on Tartan Day but that would be a lie. For the second time in 153 weeks I didn’t post a blog on Wednesday. The last time this happened I was in the hospital. This time I was so exhausted even a penguin […]
She annoyed me at times… she was often a little too perky. My clock radio would come on at 5am and there she was. Cheerful and happy and no matter what the weather or circumstance, she would find a bright angle to focus on. She joked around and made a chatty […]
I love my apartment building. We are our own little neighbourhood. It helps that we’re also in Kerrisdale, a perfect, throwback, mid-scale, little part of Vancouver. You get to know your neighbours. People come and people go. Some, like me, have been here for years. We chat in the laundry room, parking lot and stairwells. […]
Three weeks ago I sat in this room at the Long Beach Lodge and vowed that I would stop procrastinating. By the end of February I would get my ass in gear and somehow build a new website. Six days ago it seemed procrastination would win. I had done nothing. Then I asked my friend, […]
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