Dear Readers

This is the time of that many of us rewind the year and think about what went well and what didn’t.   I’ll admit that I do the same.  At Christmas, being a mother and a wife, I run around trying to make Christmas as joyful as possible for everyone.   This year it included more travelling [...]

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Once upon a time I was needle phobic.  Then I got pregnant and had to have blood drawn to protect my unborn baby so I put my big girl pants on and had it done.  Imagine at 20 years old being checked for syphilis now that’s gross but it was standard procedure.  Just for the [...]

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Accepting that I may have no friends after I finish this blog, I must in the spirit of fairness provide the other side of the story. Actually it was one of my readers (Curly Q) who convinced me to attempt to see the problems from the other side and expose how we got here.  I [...]

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This weekend we drove to Ottawa to make dinner for family and friends, pick up Christmas presents for other people and visit a dear friend in the hospital.  Although it was incredibly tempting to stay home, read, relax and watch my Christmas tree twinkling, we went on our way and have just returned and I’m [...]

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Thank you so much for visiting my blog.  We had a total of 784 unique visitors in March and a total of 2312 visits.  This is tremendous for the third month of the blog, I am grateful for the encouragement to continue to share my stories and my point of view.  What I would appreciate [...]

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Dear Readers,  The final web design for my blog is now completed and I’m so happy with it.  It was a collaborative project, with the extreme talent of Jessie Su who is the designer and Marc Lajoie who provided technical expertise. The butterfly represents my Sister, Jean who I lost to cancer in 1992 and [...]

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