Ya Gotta Laugh About It

My cottage neighbour and I rocking her SeaDoo Sunday afternoon Taken: SEPTEMBER 28th, 2014 Allow me to introduce you to the back o...

A friend and former colleague of mine is leaving the company I use to work for next Friday: he’s also immediately leaving area and eventual...

This time last year I was the happiest I’d been in my personal life in a very long time. Everything at home was tickety-boo and I was sur...

Sweetie full of SNOW TAKEN: Sep 10th /14 I asked my daughter to take a selfie of herself so that I could appreciate the snowstorm she ...

Yesterday morning I sat up in bed to look at the clock. In doing so, my husband awoke. I immediately said… “Boy, it sure is dark out for e...

Let me start by saying the chore accomplished today was something we've pondered doing since before my Dad died in 2005. It's alway...

Well, it’s that time of year again. When my short sleeve shirts and tank tops, get replaced with a variety of fleece hoodies or my favourit...

What a beautiful day today turned out to be. Hell, with only sixteen days left of the season, both yesterday and today were a couple of muc...

Well, it’s the last long weekend of the summer that never officially arrived. For various reasons, this one in particular, has produced som...

What a dog with fleas today has been. Tell me something… Have you ever gone to bed (the night before having a really bad day) knowing exact...

By mid-week last week, I had this past weekend completely planned. The Honey-Do list was long and had been itemized in order of importance...

For years I've joked with my husband that I would have never consented to signing a prenuptial agreement for money; frankly because we ...

All these years later, I still text my Quirky Sidekick almost every single day. Even though we're 1,500 kilometers apart, we still mana...

Have you ever had a day that went from FUNK to FAB without warning? Well, when I rolled out of bed this morning, I was completely and u...

My first ' laundry' memory was in the basement of our house in Quebec. I recall being in my rubber boots, riding my tricycle about...

Shortly after the tragedy of September 11th, I had to fly into Chicago for a week of software training. With security in the US heightened,...

When I was heading home last weekend to get ready to go North, I passed a Yard Sale on the main stretch of road before my house. I wasn...

Last fall, when I was booking our winter holiday, I was asked if I wanted to pay for cancellation insurance. I immediately said no. I’d alr...

A couple of years ago, what seemed like out of the blue, a media colleague quit their job. We weren’t really close personal friends per say...

My newest business associate was telling me last week that he'd finally gotten around to reading some of my Blog. As expected, there we...

I was coming up from the dock last week and I glanced over that the bright red leaves on this young maple shrub. It’s the middle of July an...

I woke up this morning and just stayed in bed listening to the rain. It’s started to pour last night about dusk and this morning the humidi...

I've always made an effort to hone my ability to multi-task; yet, I don’t know why I find comfort in the moments when I'm in overdr...

I am one of those people that simply don’t live a very adventurous life. Matter a fact, I'm really quite regimented. I won’t go so far ...

September 24th, 2013 was a really great day!  Not only did I know that I was going to spend an amazing day with one of my very favourit...

You know that old saying “you know that you’re truly friends with someone, when you don’t see each other for a year and you pick up like you...

When I moved out to the cottage I knew there would be a series of adjustments all around. Not only for me; but for my husband, my kids, and...