I chose Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy as my first read of 2021 not for any real profound reason other that it’s a library book and library books need to go, eventually, back to the library. I checked it out before Hamilton went into lockdown then forgot about it over the Christmas break due mostly to… Continue reading

I feel like I’ve been hitting you pretty hard on the blog lately, what with all the big feelings and deep-rooted traumas. So in honour of the festive season which is upon us as of today, December 1, please sit back and enjoy this tale of how, once upon a time, my newly-formed family became… Continue reading

Although the actual date of the ‘incident’ as we’ve come to call it in our family happened on November 16, 2018, it was a Friday night two years ago when it occurred, and so today I have spent a lot of time thinking about what used to be the unthinkable. A day like any other… Continue reading

I mentioned on social media last week that in the past several days I’d started many blog posts, all currently residing in the drafts folder, languishing, it could be said, while I try to organize my thoughts enough to finish them. Each time I open one up to write, the words don’t come. Or, they do come,… Continue reading

So I left you with a pretty heavy post, I know that.  And I apologize for not having a “kittens playing with yarn” chaser.  That totally would have been the right thing to do.  Next time. Instead, I’m giving you a core dump of everything that is in my brain…  that is publishable.  Cos there… Continue reading

Aww yeah, talking at you from the mitten, blogfriends!  Spent the day in Ann Arbor, a lovely town with a whole lot going on, even though it wasn’t actually a football Saturday.  But never mind!  Gorgeous weather – 52 degrees – which is nice, in Fahrenheit terms I’ll have you know.  In case you are… Continue reading

It’s Friday, people!  Rejoice! I’m off this evening to that magical land known as the US of A to hang with my good friend C.  We are meeting in a town that is approximately half way between where she lives (Grand Rapids, MI) and where I live.  It just so happens that her lovely daughter and… Continue reading

Gonna have to give you the big ol’ rundown as to what I’ve been up to, because woweee!  But um, no.  Not really.  I’m still gonna give you that rundown, but it’s not woweee by any stretch.  You’ve been warned, right? I am now on Day 24 of the first month of Project333 and you… Continue reading