We’re getting sick: I’ve had a tickle in my throat that sleep, garlic, lemon, fluids and spicy foods won’t fix. I was beat when I got home… Until I saw: our upstairs neighbours have a new yellow lab puppy! He’s adorable. He’s training to be an assistance dog, so we can’t spoil him too much, alas!…
M and I have to buy life insurance, which means I’ve been thinking about all the terrible things that could happen to us. What if I die? What if he dies? What if we both die, together? One of the leading causes of bankruptcy is medical problems, even in Canada. It’s not that the medical…
At last night’s happy hour, I took a punch to the gut. We’re currently staying at a cabin close to my extended family. M, my sisters and I are in one cabin, and two other branches of my extended family are in other cabins down the road. We’d all assembled for pre-dinner drinks and hors…
The past couple of weeks has been busy for us, not just in terms of holiday commitments, but with work and other life stresses. We put an offer on a home, so we had a whack of paperwork to do. It’s been non-stop! Last year, M was injured, and the year before, I was away…
When I was growing up, my father used to tell me that we lived in the world’s most beautiful place. I believed him. Vancouver is very, very beautiful. For me, it might be doubly so: for years, I lived away and travelled and when I’d return, no matter what I’d seen elsewhere, when the plane…
