Ya Gotta Laugh About It

Remembering my Dad. Taken: SPRING 1996   To the living, I am gone. To the sorrowful, I will never return. To the angry, I was cheated. But t...

  My meaningful tradition. TAKEN: APRIL 2025 Palm Beach, Aruba Well, I am back home and trying to play catch up. I started posting whilst I ...

My beautiful friend Ashley Milne Gone but never forgotten! (c) The Toronto Star As my readership knows, my friend and coworker was murdered ...

  (c) The Toronto Star - All rights reserved Article published February 8th, 2025 COLLINGWOOD, Ont. —Ashley Milnes Schwalm’s family and frie...

The truth of the matter is I knew when I made the decision to take Annie up the hill at the cottage on September 3rd, she would never come b...

Annie arrived back at the cottage Thursday September 19th.  TAKEN: SEPTEMBER 21st, 2024 As I sit and stare at my screen of the photo I snapp...

As clear as day, I remember the exact moment we found our beautiful Annie.  I was sitting on the balcony watching the sunset in a resort in ...

My amazing cousin Denny doing what he loved most. TAKEN: AUGUST 2013 Denny Ladouceur 1958- 2024 When I was young, vinyl records filled our h...

  In the Yukon, doing what he loved to do most. I will miss you always xoxo TAKEN: MAY 2008 It has been a painful week for me, as yesterday ...

A very powerful photo of reflection snapped as the sun began to set on December 25th. TAKEN: DECEMBER 25th, 2023   The year twenty-twenty th...

Technically a 2nd cousin we consider her a neice. We truly consider her father my husbands' brother. TAKEN: JULY 23rd, 2023 In my life t...

As we approach the first anniversary of my best friend Smarties' death, I can't help but focus on our last phone call.  He loved Ear...

  Seen here with my dads parents, my truly amazing grandparents. My Mommy knit my sweater. I LOVED that purple thing. This photo confirms th...

I don’t know about you, but I am happy to shut the door on the past year and look to the coming year with a genuine amount of hope and since...

Our motto: If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way. TAKEN: DECEMBER 26th, 2022   Well, we woke up this Boxing Day morn ...

Smartie getting a driving lesson from his grandson. TAKEN: AUGUST 27th, 2021 I am sitting at my home office desk and a wave of varying emoti...

This photo is worth more than a hundred thousand words. It genuinely exudes my love for her. Caroline (Caï) Perrault (née Marceau) TAKEN in:...

On our recent trip to Key West, we took in a popular tourist trap simply called “Robbie's” in Islamorda. I had watched the destinatio...

In memory of my best friend that passed away Easter Sunday 2022 TAKEN: AUGUST 28th, 2021  

One of my best friends passed away on Easter Sunday. Though we were separated by thousands of miles, we spoke on the phone at least once a w...