Approaching Middle Age
During a Facebook chat with my 21-year-old nephew yesterday I jokingly told him that the older you get, the older middle age gets. …
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Personal Life
A Married Conversation
ME: Gad, I wish you weren’t so dead set against me getting a little bit of Botox, just a bit, just between the eyes. I know you’re totally against it. I just wish you weren’t. …
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Property Pilferers
** update – the Freeman on the Land member has been taken into custody on a 2010 arrest warrant. Officers went into the duplex around 2 am and arrested him.  The ordeal appears to be over!  My original blog post appears below. …
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Things I’ve Learned This Week (So Far)
I can shut down the quickie-lube guys with one confidently told lie: Â …
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Tomorrow: Book Signing and Cupcake Fiesta at Chapters!
Tomorrow afternoon 15 local authors will gather with a book-centred TV show host at the London South Chapters to sign books, offer cupcakes and give attendees chances to win prizes. …
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Labouring on the Farm
On Saturday we paid a visit to a farm where 35 years ago, my husband spent the summer picking and processing tobacco plants. It’s something he and my Mom have in common, although she worked for many long, hot summers on tobacco farms. Â Â …
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Small Spaces
I’ve long described myself as claustrophobic but I seem to be getting better at handling it. …
Thelma and Louise or Lorna and Shirley
A hundred years ago when I started in radio and snagged my first full-time job in Red Deer, Alberta, a wonderful, quirky, hilarious newscaster took me in as her roommate.  This weekend that woman and I are finishing up her visit from Winnipeg and I’m grateful that she’s still in my life and as hilarious as ever. …
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A Million Vacations
Boy oh boy, some people have too little to think about. Â …
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Our New Old Set of Wheels
We have mused and fantasized about owning an RV or trailer for as long as we’ve been together. Â …
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