Feel like the year's getting away from you faster than an ice cream cone melting on a hot summer day? Like seriously, you can feel the melted ice cream sliding down your arm, escaping you & feeling icky & sticky. Do you feel slightly faint & dizzy when you realize it’s already AUGUST … [Read more...] about Holy cow, it’s August already & I have no idea what I’ve been doing!
A blast of pungent, loamy, putrid smell wafted by my nose. Next came an odd, indescribable sounds of protest - a whine, guttural groan & deep, back of the throat rumbling wrapped into one. Turning around I saw our beasts of burden for the first time - 3 camels that would accompany us on a … [Read more...] about 5 lessons from trekking with camels
Kenya is my new home. I've moved here after living my entire life in Canada. I find myself asking people, on a regular basis, where's home? If you've lived overseas for any length of time you'll understand the pregnant pause that happens when you ask someone where's home? A few ums are thrown … [Read more...] about Home is a pregnant pause & expat 'um'
I was looking forward to this past weekend. Really looking forward to it. Both my husband and oldest kid were out of town, leaving some precious 1:1 time with my youngest. After dropping off my oldest at the ferry terminal to visit his grandparents my youngest and I headed back to the van, hand … [Read more...] about When should I get a girlfriend says my 9 year old; identifying & escaping boxed in thinking
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The trick is for the (scissor) blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.
— Mary Jo Putney
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
— Amelia Earhart
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There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
