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Seeking Seriously Crispy Bacon

July 4, 2025 / 2 Comments / Celebrities, DIY, General, Personal Life, Social Marketing

It’s a well known fact that my husband loves bacon. Over the years he’s been given everything from bacon-flavoured lip balm to bacon-scented air fresheners.

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Grateful for My Lucky Life!

July 1, 2025 / 4 Comments / Personal Life

Gratitude does amazing things to the brain. It counteracts negativity bias. That’s the thought pattern that claims everything’s going to hell in a hand basket.

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With a Pet, You Never Stop Learning

June 27, 2025 / 2 Comments / Animals, Personal Life, Photography

Cuddles has just recovered from a gastro-intestinal illness. While I won’t go into gross details, I did learn some things.

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The front cover for Book Two - Threads of Love. It's mostly yellow with some green flowing into the top third, and a tree that has leaves but looks like it might be in autumn.

A Budding Novelist’s Update

June 24, 2025 / 11 Comments / DIY, General, Personal Life, Reviews, Working

“Tell me the secret to writing a book?” “Um, well, you sit down and write a book.”

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Tiny Font People

June 20, 2025 / 10 Comments / General, Personal Life, Social Marketing, Web Design

Are you irked by tiny fonts? Find them unnecessarily exclusionary? Wish you could tell tiny font people to increase their sizes, even a little bit?

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AI OMG

June 17, 2025 / 3 Comments / Celebrities, Social Marketing, Web Design, Working

The other day I watched George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden eat tacos and laugh. Mocking, of course, the Cheeto in Chief’s latest nickname: TACO. (Trump Always Chickens Out.)

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The Ones That Got Away

June 13, 2025 / 4 Comments / Celebrities, Social Marketing, Working

Sometimes, you think back to the ones that got away.

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The Noise in Our Heads

June 10, 2025 / 8 Comments / Celebrities, General, news, Personal Life, science, Social Marketing

The popularity of weight-loss drugs has revealed something so universal to some of us and unknown to others: food noise.

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Sometimes, Life Gives You a Sign

June 6, 2025 / 5 Comments / DIY, Personal Life, Photography

I was in Little Beach Shop here in Port Stanley one day last fall, poking around. Ann, the proprietor, had a sign for sale that looked familiar.

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closeup of the colours in the HBC wool blanket. Stripes of green, red, yellow, and black.

Bye Bye HBC

June 3, 2025 / 2 Comments / Personal Life, Social Marketing

Last week, we popped into the Bay at Masonville in London. I wanted to see for myself what the end of a 355-year history looked like.

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When Memories Take Flight

May 30, 2025 / 6 Comments / Personal Life, Travel

You’ve heard of repressed memories. What about a memory you can’t confirm and you wonder if your imagination made it up?

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An old black and white photo of me and my dad sitting in a sandbox beside a big tree. I'm about three years old.

May 27, 1935, My Father’s Day

May 27, 2025 / 6 Comments / Uncategorized

I did a pretty good job of asking my parents things I wanted to know. But no matter how well you do, there’s always more. Losing one’s parents changes you in ways you can’t easily describe.

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Historial plaque given to the Josiah Henson musuem by the Government of Canada acknowledging Henson's contributions to abolition.

A Road Trip Away From the Beach

May 23, 2025 / 5 Comments / Celebrities, Personal Life, Politics

We did more than plant flowers and veggies on the Victoria Day weekend. While thousands of people flocked to our lakeside village, we took a little road trip away from it. It was to see something I’ve wanted to see since we lived in Wallaceburg.

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The Long Weekend Planting Fiesta

May 20, 2025 / 4 Comments / DIY, Personal Life, Photography, Potpourri, Social Marketing

Last summer, I grew only cherry tomatoes and flowers. We got more tomatoes than the year before, but then I went to see my friend Lianne. Her cherry tomatoes made mine look pathetic!

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Black and white portrait of Queen Victoria

Thanks for the Long Weekend, Vicky

May 16, 2025 / 6 Comments / Celebrities, Personal Life, Politics, Social Marketing

I know everyone calls her Victoria, but I call her Vicky. We’re that close.

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Me in Hawaii wearing sunglasses and a ball cap that has the word GRATEFUL embroidered on it

Seeing is Believing

May 13, 2025 / 28 Comments / Personal Life, science, Social Marketing

Maybe you’ve had your lenses replaced (cataract surgery) to restore your vision, and you know how this goes. Maybe you haven’t. This is the story of my surgery that happened last Wednesday.

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Closeup of Corey Hart wearing sunglasses. And it's night.

If You Can Read This Post

May 9, 2025 / 6 Comments / General, Personal Life, science, Social Marketing, Working

I wear my sunglasses at night and I’m still not up to being on the computer!

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The Blink of an Eye

May 6, 2025 / 17 Comments / Personal Life, science, Social Marketing, Working

I first noticed something strange in the months that followed a trip to Maui.

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