Grateful for My Lucky 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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Personal Life
With a Pet, You Never Stop Learning
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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A Budding Novelist’s Update
“Tell me the secret to writing a book?” “Um, well, you sit down and write a book.”
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Tiny Font People
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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The Noise in Our Heads
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
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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Bye Bye HBC
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.
…When Memories Take Flight
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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A Road Trip Away From the Beach
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
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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Thanks for the Long Weekend, Vicky
I know everyone calls her Victoria, but I call her Vicky. We’re that close.
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Seeing is Believing
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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If You Can Read This Post
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
I first noticed something strange in the months that followed a trip to Maui.
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Tooting My Own Horn for Want of a Tooter
Marketing is difficult. Marketing oneself is a real challenge.
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A Return to Violence Where No One Gets Hurt
The limited series Adolescence on Netflix depicted a startling potential result of hands-off parenting.
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Lucky Nacho – Update
When my brother comes to visit, he brings his wonderful dog, Nacho. It has been a privilege to watch this beautiful animal blossom into the confident, friendly dog she is today. Oh, she still has her demons, I’m sure, earned from trauma in her early life. But she’s a valued member of the family. And I thought today, after their Easter visit, I’d take you back to when Kevin first discovered her. Here is my original post from 2017:
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A Piece of the (Colourfully Painted) Rock
Here’s another reason why I have no interest in living in the 51st state. We Canadians can still afford eggs.
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