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I don't know about you, but I don't always feel the same way about the holiday season each year.  There are some people who are deco...

 A little recap of our time since the coronavirus came into our lives. Settle in. January 2020 - We travelled to Hawaii  and thought nothin...

Canadians are usually interested in what is going on with our neighbours to the South, and the last four years have been no exception.  I re...

Every few months I have updated you with how things are going at our house as we live through this pandemic. In  November  I wrote about how...

Last October when Canada held its Federal election (remember that? it was so long ago) I wrote a letter to Peter Mansbridge's podcast (w...

For the past several months I feel like many of us are just trying to survive, and I don't just mean trying to avoid Covid by washing ha...

These are some tough times for a lot of people right now, but a couple of specific people I want to write about today: Ahmaud Arbery - Bl...

The other day at the event I went to where they talked about the  personality test , the presenter also posed the question: "Show of ha...

We watched the Netflix documentary "What the Health" last week.  I had heard a few people talking about and how amazing and shocki...

So another attack happened in London this weekend.  I thought it was interesting that I had just posted about Borough Market in my London tr...

Yesterday was International Women's Day.  I tried explaining it to E like this, "a long time ago, people didn't think that wome...

When the Olympics are happening, since I follow a lot of athletes and Canadian journalists, my Twitter feed is full of tweets about the Game...

When I say the title of this post, I hear Scout's voice from the movie To Kill a Mockingbird.  If you are familiar with this movie, this...

I was really sad to hear about the news of the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday afternoon.  We went to Paris on our honeymoon and it is ...

I read this article  over the weekend about why people under the age of 35 are not happy.  Basically, the way we have been raised has led us...

What the heck is going on at the University of Toronto lately? First there were the threats of violence against women and feminists posted o...

When I hear about someone who is sick or who has died, my immediate reaction is to say a prayer.  When people are sick, I pray for them to g...

Last week there was an altercation at a pool in McKinney, Texas.  I stumbled across this story on Twitter because McKinney was trending, and...

I don't talk much about religion on this blog or in my everyday life (and I don't plan on making it a central feature of this blog, ...

Remembrance Day is an important day to me.  Growing up, we always attended the local services at the cenotaph in my hometown and watched the...