not a motorcycle mama
Mom’s been gone eight years now. She died on August 17, 2016, six weeks before her eighty-eighth birthday. My mother’s mother also died a little over a month before…
heaven’s highways
“Do you think I need to take rain gear?” I directed the question to James, who was busy cleaning his windscreen with Bon Ami. He didn’t reply, so…
the long way back to lally road
This is the fourth in a series about a single vehicle motorcycle collision I had in July 2024. The first post is here; the second is here and the third…
twist my rubber arm with a butter tart
James’ FJR was parked in the street and he was working on the Warrior in the driveway when I got home around noon. He keeps one of his bikes…
phones, fears and facts
This is the third in a series of posts about a single vehicle motorcycle collision I had in July 2024. The first post is here and the second one is…
black & blue but nothing broken
This is the second in a series of posts about a single vehicle motorcycle collision I had in July 2024. The first post is here. Some of the names of…
i could have turned right…
This is the first in a series of posts about a single vehicle motorcycle collision I had in July 2024. The second one is here. Some of the names of…
7 reasons i love grass point lodge b&b
After a year of wanting to visit Grass Point Lodge B&B in Newboro, ON, and having been foiled on every occasion for one reason or another, I finally made…
hope & healing one week in
A week ago this afternoon, I was trussed up in a neck collar, strapped to a gurney and headed to Perth General Hospital in an ambulance. The recovery process…
1 + 9 cool things that happened on a june loop to collingwood
I was struck by something coincidental in the Collingwood sunset pic above as I looked through the loop photos. Maybe it’s just me, I thought. “Do you notice anything interesting…