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  • Peer pressure

    Peer pressure

    I’ve been hearing phrases lately that I last recall hearing as a teenager. “Everyone is doing it.” “No one will find out.” “It won’t hurt anything.” These kinds of arguments were usually reserved for PSAs with stilted acting warning thirteen -year-old me not to do drugs. But now I’m hearing them from family, coworkers, neighbours, […]

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    March 6, 2021
    Living
    attitude, choices, comparing, COVID, politics
  • Ever evolving

    Ever evolving

    There is progress here, and upward evolution. For the land and for me.

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    July 3, 2020
    Gardening, Living
    #icreatedtoday, attitude, choices, chronic pain, comparing, garden writer, seasons, weeds
  • #icreatedtoday

    I turn 38 today. I’m not one to hide my age, or get terribly overwrought about it, but it does inspire some reflection. What exactly have I accomplished with those nearly 14,000 days on the planet? Quite a bit; lots of it good, some of it hard, most of it worth it. The trouble is, […]

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    February 18, 2017
    Living, Writing
    #icreatedtoday, choices, creating, depression, Instagram
  • You don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone

    After a few minor crises with teenage daughters over the last week, I’ve come to a shocking realization: I’m through the sweet spot. It happened without me really noticing, as happens with good things in our lives that we come to take for granted. I knew my oldest were getting up there, and that diaper […]

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    July 9, 2016
    Parenting
    Parenting, parenting teenagers
  • Lawn Rx

    This question came through the blog this week, and as it is a perpetual concern, I decided to share my answer with everyone. Q: We’d like to know how to get rid of weeds in the lawn – weeds and these vine things. My husband can’t bend down to physically dig out each bunch and […]

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    June 16, 2016
    Gardening
    clover, lawn care, lawn weeds, weeds
  • How do I explain this; how do I put it into words?

    I woke up this morning to the radio news telling me Gord Downie has terminal brain cancer. We’ve had many significant losses in the music department these last few months, many of which have touched my heart and my history, but this one cuts me to the quick. I am not a fan girl type, […]

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    May 24, 2016
    Living, Writing
    Gord Downie, music, poetry, The Tragically Hip
  • Things I don’t know

    Sometime in the last several years, someone decided I was a fount of knowledge. I’m not entirely sure how this happened, as I am usually pretty upfront about my lack of credentials (if the ‘umm’s don’t give me away first). I’m a self taught gardener, the only formal writing teachers I’ve had were in my public […]

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    April 27, 2016
    Gardening
    CFUW, questions, tomatoes, wicking beds, wildlife in the garden
  • No break this spring–and I love it

    Many friends and co-workers have disappeared to tropical locales this week. The kids have been sleeping in and complaining about ‘everyone else’ getting to go to Hawaii (not to mention the work I’ve had them catch up on). Our week off probably does seem a little boring on the surface, and my husband and I agree that […]

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    April 15, 2016
    Gardening, Living
    choices, Lone Larch Designs, spring
  • The parable of the mistaken oak

    Last fall I sat on a lawn under an oak tree, surrounded by music and children. I brought home some acorns, researched, prepared, and planted one. It lived in the back of my fridge, in simulated winter, annoying family members just trying to put away the yogurt. Last month, I decided it was time to […]

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    March 11, 2016
    Gardening, Living, Writing
    choices, spring, trees
  • Maybe I just can’t take a compliment

    Recently, an acquaintance of mine gave me a knock-you-over, stop-breathing kind of compliment. As a single woman with marriage likely in her near future, she said, and I quote, “I love what you guys have. I want a family just like yours.” More specifically, she explained, she wanted the relaxed, convivial atmosphere she felt in our […]

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    January 14, 2016
    Living, Parenting
    comparing, compliments, kids, Parenting
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