Wendy
Not many people would disagree with me when I say that one of The Best Things in Life is a really good massage. The kind that leaves you rejuvenated and yet melting into your car seat on the drive...
View ArticleFriends
You know those cheesy posts on Facebook about how you know you have a true friend when you don’t have to talk to them every week, or even every month, yet you still love them? Every time I see one of...
View ArticleRegrets
I don’t have many regrets in life. Wait, that’s not true. That first walk down the aisle was way wrong. Okay, so maybe the perm in the ’80 wasn’t my best choice either. Oh, and that time I forced my...
View ArticleSoccer Anyone?
It’s Monday night, 7:15pm at the all weather field at Ambleside Park in West Vancouver. My friend Sarina and I are sitting on the grass talking about the Women’s Only Soccer Program she runs. As we...
View ArticleCamp
I’ve been thinking about my summer camp experiences a lot lately. Maybe it’s because I was recently near Anacortes and got to enjoy a Washington State Ferry again. It’s more likely though that it’s...
View ArticleI Made A New Friend Today
“I made a new friend today.” A normal thing for a seven year old to come home and say, but what about a fifty year old? As we get a little older it isn’t as easy to meet new people and really connect....
View ArticleThe Best Things in Life
The Best Things in Life can be small and insignificant or they can be monumental and life altering. They also happen every day to everyone on the planet. The problem is that we don’t always recognize...
View ArticleBeing Kind
As she parked in the parking lot the nerves started to grow. She hadn’t seen some of these people in years. Would they even know who she was? Would she recognize anybody? The receptionist directed her...
View ArticleCoincidence or Kismet?
Do you every think that things are just meant to happen when they happen? That the universe has a plan and you just don’t know about it? Today was one of those days for me. At a time when I was...
View ArticleTBT – Kamikaze Friends
I remember this day so clearly. It was the summer of 1994. My dear friends Karen and Jeff got married in the Rose Garden in Stanley Park. There were only four of us there. Karen, Jeff, me and my...
View ArticleI Don’t Care If You Like Me
I used to walk into a room full of people and wonder if they liked me……now I look around and wonder if I like them. Last weekend I spent three days with fifteen women. It was a girls weekend in a...
View ArticleA Rainy Day Run
“So we’re really going to do this?” “Yup. Pick you Saturday at 8:00am., “Okay.” And that’s how it started. It was kind of drizzling a bit when we got dropped off just beside the highway at the Whyte...
View ArticleJanuary 2, 2017
Again I am cozy in my warm bed but have committed to an early morning outdoor activity. So (again) I pull myself out of bed and put on my long johns to head out into the cold. Is it possible that it is...
View ArticleJanuary 11, 2017
Gossip. For years it has been considered salacious and the stuff of idle housewives. Studies out of the University of California, Berkeley, however, are questioning that opinion. I personally think...
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