I know you’ll all find this hard to believe, but, with Halloween still more than a week away, I AM FINISHED THE HALLOWEEN COSTUMES! And they are good. Martha Stewart good. “Mom you ROCK!” good....

Yesterday wasn’t very happy. It started getting better after a lousy morning, but then the phone call came. “Do you want the good news or the bad news?” Marcel asked. It turned out there wasn’t any good news. Just a crapped out hot water tank spilling water all over...

- your sick daughter gets up at least 5 times during the night;- you miss not one, but TWO buses on the way to work;- you trip over air in your driveway and gracefully plant yourself face first on the concrete; AND- somebody swears at you when you step off the bus...

I took a day off work today and went on a little pilgrimage - to some of the places that hold pieces of my past. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPaG6hyCYzM] ("Tonight I am the Wind" by Kerri Woelke)Update: In case you're wondering about the places in the...

After a cloudy day, the sun peeked out just before it lowered itself beneath the horizon. I was drawn outside by the stunning glow of the glorious poplar tree down the street.(Click to enlarge.)

"Mom, we should go on a picture journey," she said, when we got back from the playground."Girl, I like the way you think," I said and grabbed my camera while she hopped on her bike.As the fading light stretched shadows across the fallen leaves, we journeyed, each...

The lyrics that are playing in the elevator of my mind today are "rainy days and Mondays always get me down". But what if it's a rainy day AND a monday? Sigh.

1. My bookworm daughter Julie is having her dream come true this afternoon. There was a flood in the school library which ruined lots of books, so this afternoon the librarian is taking her along to Chapters to spend the afternoon picking out $7000 worth of books.2....

If you're interested in seeing a shortened version of the film I produced about the trip to India and Bangladesh (with stories of several of the people we met there), here's a link. Watch for my favourite tiny clip - just before the end, I'm walking away from the...