How far behind do you have to be that you can spend four days cleaning your house and STILL feel like you have a way to go to get caught up? Yeesh! Our house has gotten frightfully out of control lately. You know that feeling (or perhaps you're one of those annoying...

There’s an eery silence in parts of the blogosphere these days. Many of the sites I visit regularly seemed dumbfounded – at a complete loss for words. This site is no different. We just don’t know what to say. I start sentences, but they dangle in the air unfinished....

Last night was one of those great evenings that make me so sad to see Summer pass. A free outdoor concert in Assiniboine Park, listening to Joel Kroeker (awesome) and The Wailin' Jennys (even MORE awesome), hanging out with family and friends, racing Maddie across the...

Yay! I got published again! I tell ya, no matter how many times I see my name in print, next to something I've written, I still get all giddy when it happens.The Winnipeg Free Press published a piece I sent them a few months ago. And what's REALLY cool is that one of...

(Warning: One of my long "trying to be profound" posts ahead.)I like to think I have a good command of the English language. I’m a communicator who spends a lot of time searching for the best way to communicate ideas, information, instructions, etc. I know a lot of...

It's hard to imagine how all those people in Louisiana and Mississippi are going to pick up the pieces of such a broken life. One woman said "All I found that belonged to me was a shoe. There's nothing left." How do you begin to rebuild a life with nothing but a shoe?...

Lest you should think that all our downsizing (from 2 incomes to one, etc.) and selling off of earthly possessions (van, camper, boat) means that we've completely turned into "simple living altruistic tree-huggers", I have to come clean and admit that we do still like...

"Because we are flesh, we know best that with which we are familiar. We love most those around us. We yearn for connections to real people in real places, people we can touch and who can touch us. We love most intensely those people around us. We hold our children in...

Today, I have a yearning to go to summer camp. Not as a grown-up, with responsibilities for caring for children or anything like that, but as a kid – a full-fledged carefree kid. I want to go to a place where all my needs are cared for, the bell rings when it’s time...

According to a recent U.S. survey, the Top 3 Reasons for Reading Blogs were: “news I can’t find elsewhere”, “a better perspective” and “faster news”.Funny, I never (or rarely anyway) read news blogs - only those that are enjoyable, personal and give me a break from...