better off broken
“It’s going to take a while,” the doc says from behind his mask. I feel grateful beyond words to have a family physician when thousands of my fellow Canadians…
i know my own truth
People troll my sites, my posts, and my life in waves. Unbelievably, some of them think they have the right to judge me (and others) based on a few…
find renewal in the wreckage
Losing your home is like having your heart ripped out. You feel lost, betrayed and battered. Suddenly robbed of everything familiar, you stand alone in the wasteland of what once…
backyard emergency
August 7, 2018: “What brought you to Almonte?” or “Why Almonte? people ask. “I’m not sure,” I’ve been replying. “I guess it will be revealed in time.” My…
fight for your own creativity
I love this.
fight the good fight. your way.
Journalist, author, motivational speaker and world-record-holding marathon swimmer Diana Nyad made five attempts to swim from Cuba to Florida. She first tried at age 28 in 1975. She failed. She…
Catherine never complained
My cousin Catherine was born with a heart defect. She began having (then-experimental) surgeries to correct it at the age of two. She had many such surgeries and spent countless…
Remembering Tank Man
Twenty-four years ago today, journalists and other observers watched from hotel balconies and the streets below as one unknown man stood, defiant, in front of a column of tanks as…
Hangin’ on & hangin’ in
I’m having one of those days. I’m just managing to hang on. By a thread. Here’s to everyone else out there who is doing the same. We are not alone….