1 “Old Age Is No Joke but It Can Feel Like One” – Calvin Tomkins Because, if you haven’t figured it out yet you are getting older. You are and don’t be fooled. No matter what you eat, wear, cosmetically alter to stop it, you are aging. I felt
1 Toronto, Port Hope “For the heart cannot live without something to sorrow and be curious over.” — Eudora Welty Life, family, work. The aging process and the ongoing challenge of trying to stay healthy in an undisciplined world. I am writing this after a cold spring, in the town of Port
As I write this, the Hyacinth is sprouting in the front and back yard. This, after a long, bitter, winter. I have a beautiful garden thanks to my Consort, John. He is an expert with flowers and plants, as was my Father, which is probably why I have been with
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.” – Marianne Williamson I got to thinking about my long career, or was it a vocation? In my formative
“Home is the nicest word there is.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder Consort and I are moving again. Five years have gone by in our little town by the river. We figure we should live somewhere new and like most of the newly retired, downsize. Meanwhile, our friends are travelling. One,
“What are you going to do? Everything is my guess. It will be a little messy but embrace the mess. It will be complicated but rejoice in the complications.” – Nora Ephron It’s February and I’m not feeling the Joy. Everyone I speak to family and otherwise seem shipwrecked, screwed
“Well, it was fun while it lasted.” – An Arctic Dwelling Anonymous Person January 2, Whenever. Well, we’re not sick of our winter coats yet. There’s the upside. That usually happens sometime in March, if I’m not mistaken. January asks very little of us except that we show up layered
I don’t like Autumn. There, I’ve said it. You might. You may speak of the beauty of the Fall’s explosion of colours, the lack of aggressive insects, the crisp air on your walks. Me? I see the death of my garden. Stepping out on my porch into the dampness by
*Disclaimer: The author of this Vignette is not in a sponsorship relationship. I’ve become a sober night owl. Last night, I got to thinking about the last time I shopped at a fancy Department Store. Was it Holt Renfrew in 1979? My wondering comes on the heels of reading that
“And with our gastronomical growth will come, inevitably, knowledge and perception of a hundred other things, but mainly ourselves.” — M.F.K. Fisher My Mother once told me “In order to cook well you have to have a big heart”. I was twenty and didn’t cook. I wondered if mine had shrunk
Recently I came upon a song by Lou Christie called “Lightning Strikes, recorded in 1965. I had forgotten all about it though it was a favourite when I was a small girl. I heard it in our Kitchen since my mother had Chum Radio playing 24/7. I found a video
Yes, It happened. I have accepted the fact that I’m a senior and so has my Consort. I am grateful—we have been together for 25 years thinking ourselves content and forever young. However, once upon a time—love was puzzling. I recently came across some notes I sadly jotted down before
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