IMPORTANT UPDATE
As of April 2024, my blog has moved over to Substack where I’m co-hosting A Tender Space (together with my business partner at Centre for Holding Space). You can find my new writing plus podcast episodes there, or sign up below to get them in your inbox.
Here’s some of my earlier writing…
Not-so-fun Monday
Pamela asked to see our October view for Fun Monday, and I had every intention of wandering around the neighbourhood today looking for the perfect shot to entice all of you to visit and to prove that Winnipeg is NOT the arm-pit of the nation, but it rained all day...
Check it out!
I don't normally post twice in one day, but I'm just SO excited that I can't resist. You just HAVE to check this out. It's the website for the new program I've been pouring a lot of passion, sweat, and a few tears into the last 10 months or so. Go ahead - go there....
Cauliflower and milk
As I tried to relax in the bathtub last night, I heard this conversation: “Who put the cauliflower on the shelf where the milk is supposed to be?” “Not me!” “I did! Because SOMEBODY had stuck the cauliflower where it got in the way of closing the door!” “Well don’t...
Autumn
“I know how to say red in French”chirped Maddiefresh from kindergarten“It’s rouge.” This morningbiking past the railway bridgeI stopped and stared in aweat the brilliant leavesstill tenuously clinging to the vine “I know how to say red,”I thought“with no words at...
A two wheeled WHAT?
This morning, as I watched someone ride past on a bicycle, I wondered for a moment about the person(s) who invented the bicycle. What reaction must they have gotten the first time they rode through town on a self-propelled two-wheel contraption? Thank goodness they...
What a week
It has been a full and rather intense week - the kind of week that feels like ideas and events and experiences and emotions are tumbling over you so fast you barely have time to process it all and give meaning to it. Here are a few of the highlights:- It was really...
So good
If you want to know where I am (or where I'm about to leave, since I'm currently sitting in the airport), you can find all the clues you need here. Unfortunately, those pictures were taken on the only evening I had a chance to wander. The rest of the time, I was stuck...
Time to put the lawnchairs away
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Our private beach, Cass Lake, originally uploaded by Fumbling for Words. In the summertime, our...
Thirteen things currently spinning through my head
(yes, I’m feeling spinny today) Alternate title: A day in the life of my brain at work Should I order more newsletters, or will 18,000 be enough?Did I catch all the mistakes on the design proof of the brochure, or will someone point out a glaring error the moment...
Babysitting Abby
The laundry didn’t get folded last night,but I sat and rocked a little girl to sleep for the first time in about three years I didn’t get started on the wall that needs painting,but I watched my oldest daughter change her first poopy diaper and I marveled how quickly...
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