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…
She’s getting older
Accidental Poet has been my sister-in-law for so long, it feels like she's really my sister. I was sixteen when she married my brother. And you know I just celebrated my 40th birthday, so you do the math. My dad was a wise man - he used to say he had seven (now it's...
How to have fun at a meeting
Meetings are boring, right? Stack up all the meetings you’ve been to in your brain and put the ones that weren’t boring in a separate pile. Makes for a pretty small stack, doesn’t it?I’ve been to A LOT of meetings. And I mean A LOT. (Thirteen years in the public...
Turns out I didn’t need a cleaning fairy…
I just needed to ask my husband nicely. 🙂 Came home to a clean house today. Aaahhh...Yes, I'm lucky. And he's cute in his little fairy outfit too.
Hello-o. My house is THIS way. Did you lose your MAP?
Has anyone seen the cleaning fairy? She keeps missing my house and I want to know what's up. If she comes by your house, can you point her in my direction?I keep sending her messages through the cosmos telling her my house is just the right house to test out all those...
The day after
Well, it was a GREAT party. G.R.E.A.T. I haven't had that much fun since... I can't remember when. There was plenty of food. Of the over 100 hot dogs we cooked, only a few shriveled weiners were left (it seems alot of people like weiners without buns, because there...
PARTY!
We’re throwing a big party tonight. An outdoor party. At Marcel’s parents place out in the country. We’ve invited almost everyone we know – work friends, church friends, siblings, cousins and aunts and uncles, friends from old work places, our kids’ friends,...
Where do I live?
I live…in a simple bungalow with an attached garage full of bicycles and a red car in the driveway.I live…with my husband and three daughters.I live…just a block from the mighty Red River.I live…within easy walking distance of a grocery store, a drugstore, a dollar...
Weekend wandering
Well, since Marcel is so bound and determined to have a good attitude about all this, I guess I'll just have to quit sulking and move on. Yeesh - he takes all the fun out of my petulant mood. (Yes, for those who asked, there's always next year. But at 41, prolonging...
Well that REALLY sucks
After the emotional high of yesterday’s graduation, we got bad news this morning. Really sucky, energy-draining kind of news. Marcel didn’t get accepted into the Education program for the fall. That’s always been his plan – get a 3 year History degree, and then a 2...
The Graduate
For three and a half years now, I've been sleeping with a university student. Scandalous, eh? What's a mature woman like me doing hopping into bed with a student? It gets worse... that student fathered my children! And I'm not the least bit ashamed of this love...
Shawnigan Lake, B.C.
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