Fifty resumés sit on my desk waiting to be reviewed. Fifty hopeful people are waiting for my call.I sit here staring at them, knowing full well that I will disappoint forty-nine people. Only one person will get the job, forty-nine will not. Some of them (maybe 10 or...

There's a whole lot of LIVIN' going on too! If my blog is starting to depress you, well then hop on over to ccap's blog for some awesome pictures of my cutie-pie niece! She's photogenic already - which is a good thing, because her mother was born with a camera...

Something strange happened to me today. Recently, when Peanut was born, Marcel hauled the cradle out of storage thinking Peanut could be its next occupant. Partly because CCAP and her boy didn’t need it, and partly because I felt obligated to return it to its rightful...

Marcel called this afternoon. "He's gone," he said. Just those 2 simple words. How could 2 simple words mean so much? Shouldn't it take more that 2 words to communicate such a weighted message?Uncle Lionel is gone. His life has ended. Seventy-eight (I think) years of...

More stuff left my house this weekend. Marcel hauled away a trailer load of garbage – old curtain rods and the ugly pink venetian blinds that were in our house when we moved in, an old crib mattress, an old cooler that no longer cooled much due to the cut left by a...

I saw a movie on the weekend that will stick with me for quite a while. It’s called Water. It’s based in India (with English sub-titles), and at the core of the movie is a group of widows who have become disenfranchised from their communities because of their...

(What's a "Maddie-ism"? Little bits of humour and sideways truths from my 3 year old daughter.)Maddie (watching me cook supper): What are we having for dessert?Me: Why are you worried about dessert before we've even had supper?Maddie: The whole WORLD was made for...

Winter made a dramatic entrance in our part of the world this week. On Sunday, it was a beautiful Fall day. On Monday, winter came. On Tuesday, we could barely leave our homes.You have two choices around here when it comes to winter - you can whine and complain about...

I'm home. Home is good. Yesterday was one of the longest and most painful days I've had in a long time. But it's over now and I'm home. At the end of the day, though faced with challenges, confrontation, and downright awkward moments, I went to sleep knowing that I...

Back in Calgary.Road trip is over.I survived enemy territory.There were several awkward moments, like when the person-who-shall-remain-nameless introduced herself to the person next to me (who had travelled here from Kenya) as "the person who used to work for XXX...