Gone with the Wind
The weather was nice on Tuesday, warm and sunny, but fresh. I’d worked my derrière off for six days in a row and decided it was time to go zen out. So off I went to Sugar Beach. Once I got there, I discovered that the day that was fresh by my building was pretty…
A Dance with Words
When I lived with my parents, dinner was one of my favourite times of the day. Not because my mother is an excellent cook – although there is that – but because dinner was the time where we all sat down together, ate and talked. And it was the talking especially that made this time…
A Bite of Yellow
I’ve never met a plum I didn’t like, but the yellow are my favorites. They remind me of a Danish plum sort called reinekloder. They have the same contrast of a very tart skin and a sweet flesh – wait, that sounded a bit cannibalistic – albeit a bit more watery than the Danish variety….
Life Line
There are times when this stress hits you so hard that you have made a conscious decision to build a wall against it. The stress can be a physical flare, unmanageable pain or the life crap that has a habit of happening without your consent. For me right now, it is the life crap. There…
Bliss, Redux
Three months ago, we went to see Cavalia’s Odysseo and it was blissful. I claimed to be full, didn’t need to go back again, but The Boy knew better. He’d occasionally drop a hint and finally, I knew, too. I couldn’t let these beautiful horses leave without seeing them again. So we did. It kicked…
Bliss
How do you describe perfection? Well, there’s the smile of my face that’s been around since Saturday. It was the start of my and The Boy’s anniversary weekend and we started at Cavalia. What’s Cavalia? It’s heaven on earth, especially if you’re fond of horses. Which I am. I saw the original show (twice) several…
Leading with Joy
“You must be very angry.” This was the (rather leading) question of one of the journalists I spoke during my brief tenure of being a spokesperson for the Health Council of Canada. We’d been discussing the eight months I waited for funding approval for Enbrel, of how the RA ate my life and made me…
Inside the Miracle
Last weekend, a user on MyRACentral named Laurie posted about the change in her life brought about by Humira. Less than a year ago, two separate doctors told her that she’d never be strong enough to do the physical things she loved, would never kayak or hike again. So she sold her kayak and I…
How Lucky Are You?
Sometime in the last month or so, I read some suggestions for writing exercises somewhere and this one struck me. Or maybe it was from Katie Couric’s book, I forget. Point is less about where I found it than the question itself: How lucky are you? Nifty question, innit? Since yesterday wasThanksgiving here in the…
Sweet Boredom
I can’t remember the last time I had vacation. Of course, it could be argued that when you’re not working, you’re perpetually on vacation, but it’s not the same. Life fills up, regardless of what you do – or don’t do – and although you may lollygag for a few hours in an afternoon and…
Of Two Minds
Jeff Probst has a new show called Live for the Moment, which according to his blog post on the Entertainment Weekly website “tells the story of someone who has experienced a life-changing event that inspired them to change how they live their life”. The show sends “them on a series of adventures which offer major…
You Never Know
“I can’t do a New Year’s post this year, it’ll sound like I’m bragging.” This is what I said earlier this week, heavily influenced by that Danish-Canadian thing about not tooting your own horn overmuch (and perhaps a little by the fear that if I say something out loud, it’ll jinx it). At New Year’s…
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