I have been MIA I know, but for good reason: I want you to meet my new friends. Actually, they are old friends but now I know what they look like, and it’s all because of setting Intentions. I skipped writing about intentions last year as I was apparently on the two-year plan with getting… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Musings/Rantings
After The Election You Still Have A Choice
Thank God this debacle is over. The gutter brawl between the parties threatened to spill into my front room and had become so, so tiresome. Now we know and I am not wasting any more energy on this election. There are people to be taken care of, runs to be run, tests to be taken,… Continue Reading
And I Think to Myself…What the…???
OK I just find this interesting. Some say I am easily entertained. It is true. Sea salt is not a natural source of iodine. However, the shellfish that live in the sea contain significant levels of the element. And this: You can get Vitamin D from sunlight. Mushrooms, which grow in places… Continue Reading
The Best Gift
Lately I seem to be surrounded by a fair number of people who have found happy romantic relationships the second, third, even fourth time around. Everywhere I look people are showing wedding photos, talking about just-the-two-of-us vacations and date nights, while I hang out with the two furry loves of my life, Gandalf and Pippin. My… Continue Reading
Some people’s kids
I was at work when the tragedy in France unfolded and did not understand why my friend was posting that she was “Charlie” (No…no, I am pretty sure you are Beryl….) until I read the news that night. I found it ironic to remember that while the shootings were going down in Paris, a Muslim… Continue Reading
The Old Year (2014 edition)
2015 has dawned bright, clear and cold (a balmy minus 9 degrees). Snow covers the ground and yaktrax are in order when I take Gandalf out for walks, which are quite short in these temperatures. Pippin declines to go at all when it is below zero. My long holiday season started in August, at the… Continue Reading
A Closed Mouth Gathers No Foot
I have spent a pretty big chunk of my life perfecting the art of being hard on myself. I swear, if self-criticizing was an Olympic sport I would always be on the podium (and it better be the gold!). While being very understanding of others (and excusing inexcusable behavior in some) I have a history… Continue Reading
Re-balancing
I started this post in our typical un-spring-like spring; an entire season ago. Too much time has gone by and so here it is, a little disjointed, but that is kind of the way things have been lately. Walls of water snuggled the tomatoes and squash through the snow and cold of early summer.… Continue Reading
Spry
Odd little word, “spry”, and I don’t care for it. I know it is supposed to be a good thing, but it sounds so…I don’t know….patronizing. spry adjective 1. (esp. of an old person) active; lively. It was also the brand name of a Crisco-like product my Grandma used; would it make one’s baked goods… Continue Reading
Winter Solstice 2013
“Well. Here we are!” This has become my traditional toast and since Gandalf and Pippin can’t hold a wine glass I hear an imaginary *clink* as we salute this night. Christmas lights are bright, my fireplace is toasty and this year Loreena McKennitt has joined my Winter Solstice music companions Jennifer Cutting and the Windham… Continue Reading
