Isn’t it nice when you get gifts and cards that reflect your interests? Kind of makes a person feel special. Validated. Like the person who loves to cook getting a special cookbook. Or paints and canvases for a painter. Or … Continue reading →
1. What do you most associate with Christmas where you live? I live close to a small town called Olds. The powers that be have played on the word and use it to their advantage by hosting an Olds Fashioned … Continue reading →
I love snow. I love how it creates a white canvas and then like an invisible hand is finger painting, it is pulled into drifts in the corners, dribbled on the evergreen trees and dotted on every fence post. I … Continue reading →
My daughter brings me tea from Korea. It is beautifully packaged and so good. My favorite is the cherry blossom blend. Christmas is a time for gift giving. Some gifts are beautiful like the boxes the tea comes in. Some … Continue reading →
Christmas in our house was simple. I don’t remember having company as our extended family all lived too far away to face the winter weather and roads to visit us. Our gifts were simple. We had a tree with lights … Continue reading →
I envy people who can look at a bare room and picture it painted and decorated. They can look at a swatch of paint and know how it will look on the wall. All I see are the bare walls. … Continue reading →
Writing a story is easy. I mean, how had can it be to simply put words on a page. True–that part is easy. It’s making sure that each word had a reason for being there that is hard. Sometimes it’s … Continue reading →
Have you ever wondered what triggers a story? It could be a bit of research, a careless remark made by someone or seeing a movie that sets my mind wandering in a different direction than the writer of that work … Continue reading →
After an early snow and despair that the crops would ever be harvested, it is nice to see that the crops are now safely in the bin. Harvest is a time of joy, anticipation and frustration. It’s awful to see … Continue reading →
No trip would be complete without a trip to a museum so, while visiting my sister, we went to the North Peace Museum (in Fort St. John, northern British Columbia, Canada). It’s a very nice museum. but what struck me … Continue reading →