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India Won’t Leave my Mind

Even though India is in my rear-view mirror as I am now immersed back into my west-coast Canadian routines, I find it is on my mind every day. Have you noticed how you get asked, or you ask yourself, “what were the highlights?” of recent trips? I have done that myself in the last couple […]

April 28, 2018
Note for the future: My daughter is never allowed near a microphone when the subject might be “me”…

I was just sharing with my 15 year old daughter that several of my friends had enjoyed the humour in “The Universe Has a Plan” blog post from earlier this month (thank you). “Really?” she says. “I should read it.” So she plops down at my computer to read my witty repartee. I watch her…she’s […]

July 25, 2015
Another Top Ten…

…signs of “re-entry”to my native habitat from a long absence: 1. I can’t find my car keys anywhere…they’re somplace “safe”. Oh boy, those keys are so safe it took days and days to recover them. 2. Nice friends are phoning to say hello on my cell phone. This is so great. Except that I never had people […]

September 20, 2012
Two cell phones (that will stop working tomorrow), one iPad (with a big crack in the screen), one tablet, three kindles, three ipods (one dead), a Nintendo 3DS (child bored of it though since he’s played the same three games for three months), and half a computer (with no audio, another one got dropped, and the third is “frozen”)

I didn’t share this, but while in the Netherlands in July (now I’m in Holland), the d ,m, and r keys stopped working on my computer. My blog was going to be about how hard it was to be creative when one is limited by using no words that had those letters in them. You […]

September 14, 2012
Warning: Coffee is an Addictive Substance that Can Affect Your Marriage

In my native habitat, I am aware I spend too much money on café Americano mistos out of paper cups. If the first step to “recovery” is awareness then I am aware. I have been, however, extremely unmotivated to change. My husband, a perplexing mixture of generosity and frugality, wishes it were different. But […]

July 12, 2012
Two cell phones, one ipad, one tablet, three kindles, three ipods, a nintendo 3DS, and three lap top computers versus one husband.

Oh boy, there’s nothing like three days of single parenting in a foreign city where I don’t speak the language to erase all thoughts of early morning meditation! I have a renewed appreciation for my husband and the skill set he brings to our family. Things went quite sideways…no hot water in the flat, my […]

June 29, 2012