The Generation Gap

With the global pandemic, COVID-19, closing our borders and shutting down travel and trade, I have been trying to be deliberate about getting out and being in the sunshine. The other day, my husband and I and one of our sons, and our two dogs headed to the beach. Our stretch of beach is really…

Stinky, sweaty, exhausted and dirty.  That’s how my ‘men’ arrived home yesterday.  What were they doing?  They went on a four day hiking trip.  Three beautiful days of sunshine and one day of teeming rain and howling wind. That old saying, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” probably would…

My baby is 17 today!  I can hardly believe that my first born is now an ‘almost adult’.  It seems as though in the beginning I thought this time would never come and now I’m wondering how on earth it happened so quickly. Seventeen years of laughter, tears, lessons, successes, failures and memories. The other…

Sitting in the hospital waiting room, my son and I were scanning through an old edition of Reader’s Digest when we found this story.  It’s not word for word but you will get the idea… “Driving down the road the other day, I noticed the traffic cam flash my picture.  I knew I wasn’t speeding…

It is one of the yummiest times of year – fresh fruit season.  Now I could also say that about homemade bread season in the fall and Christmas season in the winter and bbq season in the spring.  But there is something special about savouring the mouth watering, juice dripping, sweet and stickly berries that…

Boing… Cuckoo… Poof… Thud… Woosh… Zip… All of these are onomatopic words.  They are words that say the sound they make.  Just hearing the words elicits a response.  You can almost feel the action.  Immediately, you know exactly what these words represent. When I am with my children, there are words, actions and attitudes that…