losing JOY
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.” ― Oscar Wilde A yellow smiley face posted on the door meant the pool was open…
feel the FEAR
“Feel the fear and do it anyway!”―Susan Jeffers As a young child, I harboured a few fears, the kind some might consider run of the…
dinner TIME
“Cooking is like love.It should be entered into with abandonor not at all.”– Harriet Van Horne For me, loving large has always included cooking large,…
the TRIFECTA – my 3 best questions
“The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering” –David…
HEALTH is wealth
“It is health that is real wealth. And not pieces of gold and silver.” – Gandhi “Closer to the ground” is a mantra we often…
toilets, TREES, and tanks
“What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet” – Sir David Attenborough Many have asked…
slow as SOCKS
“One can never have enough socks” – Dumbledore (Harry Potter) When I was still in my teens, my mom taught me how to knit, which…
first year FAILS
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill While much of what’s been written about…
making the MAP
That old adage about bigger being better, may not be so true as we age. Building a new house during our last chapter gave us…
the SACRED in saturday
“The cost of a thing is the amount of lifewhich is required to be exchanged for it.” –Henry David Thoreau In 2020, the average life…