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Easy Like Sunday -News in Our Little Corner

26 Jun 202228 Jun 2022

This week has been nothing short of a whirlwind of blessings! I almost hesitate to write about it all because... because... well, let me explain. Anyone who writes as personally…

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Update on Bette ❤️🐾❤️

26 May 2022

After several months on a special kidney diet, and the recent introduction of fish oil for joints, skin and fur, Bette has suddenly taken a turn for the BETTER! A…

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Easy Like Sunday -Zzzzzzz…

1 May 20221 May 2022

“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.” – Mindy Kaling Hahahaha! Perfect! Okay, so... Let's get the obvious out of the…

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The Little (Sometimes Tangible) Things

18 Apr 202218 Apr 2022

We talk so much about putting our energy into people... not things... and I whole-heartedly agree! But sometimes, things DO matter, especially to sensitive souls like me when we're talking…

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Runes – Another neat thing to toss into your self-help kit

14 Apr 202214 Apr 2022

I haven’t had Runes - actual Runes - until recently, though I did have rune(s) cards (thanks to Mom!). I liked the cards a lot but always wanted an actual…

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Bio Moment – Mind blown

4 Apr 2022

The featured photo is of me, though I don’t know what part of me … … or where it was taken. I found it when I went to my phone’s…

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Bio Moment – Things & Stuff

17 Mar 202218 Mar 2022

Where does the phrase, “Things & Stuff” come from? In *our house* it came from Tess. You’ve heard about her before. She’s the cat that saved my life. No small…

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Dad – And then, there were the feathers…

24 Feb 202224 Feb 2022

I’ve struggled with how to write today’s post. It’s been one year today since Dad travelled to that great unknown… And, being honest, this grieving process has been very different…

From My Bookshelf…

Bio-Moment – Not Just Me. Right?

20 Feb 2022

I’m not okay. Are you okay? I mean, yeah, sure, masked faces are a familiar sight, as is hand sanitizer, arrows on the floor, and statistics about how many have…

Photography

Picture of the Day “A Study in Mindfulness”

23 Jan 2022

Bette needs no one to tell her how to be mindful. She simply is.

From My Bookshelf

Fiction as Self-Help -The Pearl

19 Jan 2022

I usually do a fair bit of research before I write about the books I've read. I get links and read opinions, critiques, and histories of the authors. Then, I…

From My Bookshelf

Easy like Sunday – Oh, Pooh!

16 Jan 2022

What new thing can be said about a book known and loved by everyone I’ve ever met? Maybe this: ‘A gorgeous new collectible edition of the beloved classic, Winnie-the-Pooh, crafted as a…

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Bio Moment – I took a little dip and then I came back up for air

30 Dec 202130 Dec 2021

This won't be a long or profound post. I'm headed off to work in a half-hour and just want to check in. I've noticed that this year, I have dipped…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – Soul Without Shame

21 Dec 202120 Dec 2021

If you’re looking for a quick-fix for your shame, Soul Without Shame by Byron Brown is NOT it. Not that it’s a difficult read – it isn’t – but that it’s heavy…

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Bio Moment – A Little Perspective

9 Dec 2021

Mindfulness (my word of the year for 2022) has been ever-present on my mind as we wind down these dark, cold, days of 2021. Sometimes, it is relatively easy. Like,…

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A Happy Update – Including fluorescent zig-zags

27 Nov 202127 Nov 2021

Yesterday, as most of us were taking one last call for the road, I started noticing the flashing lights on the periphery of my view. Crap! Ocular migraine! I had…

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Comfort Recipe – Sweet Potato Soup

19 Nov 2021

Tonight, my husband and I went different directions for dinner. He went pasta … I went potato. Come to think of it, we both went “comfort”! Whenever I tell anyone…

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Happy Thanksgiving, Canada 🇨🇦 🍁

11 Oct 202111 Oct 2021

I am in bed, writing with one finger on my phone. You know it’s important when I struggle through fat-finger syndrome! lol I took this photo two days ago, nearing…

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Another one bites the dust – Sorry, Not Sorry!

21 Sep 202121 Sep 2021

"Saying Goodbye is a Painful Way to Solve a Problem" - Author Unknown Sometimes, Quote. Sometimes, it sure is! This time? Not so much. However, it was much more difficult…

From My Bookshelf

Find Your Pleasure – A Professional Sensualist?

16 Aug 202116 Aug 2021

Every heard of a "professional sensualist"? Me, neither! Cynthia Loyst is a self-proclaimed one! Find Your Pleasure is about how we clunky humans fall into "pleasure deficits" - and let's…

From My Bookshelf

What Mama Taught Me – This Book is a Lighthouse

2 Aug 20212 Aug 2021

In doing research for today's book, I read a ton about the author Tony Brown, host of the longest-running series on PBS - Tony Brown's Journal. So, what I guess…

From My Bookshelf

Reviving Ophelia – Be everything, be nothing

3 Jul 20213 Jul 2021

July 3, 2021 Up for reblog today is a necessary and poignant book that broke my heart a little when I read it. Why? That would take longer to answer...…

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Bio Moment – Is it about wine… or cats?

11 May 202111 May 2021

May 11, 2021 No explanation or update needed for this re-blog. Well, except this... At the end, I pose a question. I'm still wondering about the answer.

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Mother’s Day 2021 – Amethyst Caves

9 May 20219 May 2021

If I could write a poem for you It wouldn’t rhyme... It would instead dance merrily Through amethyst caves. Lights would twinkle around it And through it And there you…

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Easy like Sunday – Finding solid ground

5 May 20215 May 2021

May 5, 2021 Up for reblogging today is yet another foray into the history of Sheryl. With all the work I've been doing on trauma, it's good to delve back…

From My Bookshelf

What Happened to You? – That is the question

4 May 2021

Many books claim to be life-changers but few live up to the promise. Let me give you a head's up about What Happened to You? by Bruce D. Perry, MD,…

From My Bookshelf…

A Triad: On Inherited Trauma

17 Apr 202115 Jul 2021

This post will be a little different from others. I have chosen several excellent methods / modalities to convey this message: Ancestral and inherited family dysfunction and trauma MATTERS but…

Interviews

Interview – Patricia Call: Renaissance Woman

28 Mar 202128 Mar 2021

We first met Patricia Call in my shameless teaser about this interview HERE. I'm going to begin this interview by telling you that this one will be a little different than all…

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Grief 101: Recover from Grief Website

23 Mar 202123 Mar 2021

I miss my dad. I find myself trying not to think about him because whenever I do, I'm sobbing. I know how very lucky and blessed I was to have…

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The Gift – I knew who I was in his presence

27 Feb 2021

Death in the age of Covid - especially when you live in another country, even if it is a friendly, once-open-border - adds a few surprising obstacles. Then there's the…

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Until We Meet Again, Dad

26 Feb 202128 Mar 2021

Those of you who have been here since the beginning know that my dad fell a little over three years ago. Until that time, I thought he'd live forever. At…

From My Bookshelf

The Last Taboo – Mental Illness, thy name is Stigma

10 Feb 202113 Apr 2021

TW: Discussion of mental health disorders, suicide ideation and a deep dive into stigma. It seems only fitting that I link Canadian Amazon on a book about Mental Health in…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one? – When a Parent is Depressed

5 Feb 20216 Feb 2021

In the interest of honesty, I almost didn’t write today. I did a “Remember this one?” post yesterday and skipped the day before. Here I go again… into the spiral…

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Bio Moment – Who do you think you’re fooling?

4 Feb 20214 Feb 2021

Last night, in that space between awake and asleep, I thought of this phrase... Who do you think you're fooling? And I heard a voice... You're not special. You never…

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The Gratitude Zone II – The “People Posts”

28 Jan 202130 Jan 2021

On July 13, 2019, I mentioned (not for the first time) my first blog, The Gratitude Zone. At that time, I wasn't aware that I'd saved what I called my…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one? – How to Win Friends & Influence People

28 Jan 2021

How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie was published in 1936. The title back then was, “How to Wineth Friends and Infulenceth People”… just kidding. All I’m saying is that…

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Bio Moment – Not a barn burner

26 Jan 202111 Feb 2021

I woke up in the middle of the night. Again!! Why? Well... I have a reason! Listen to this! Forgive the blur but it was 1:26 am. Half-asleep, I felt…

From My Bookshelf

Remember this one?* – Boundaries (Where You End and I Begin)

20 Jan 202124 Jan 2021

**Trigger Warning: Mention (without details) of childhood sexual abuse** There are many, many books on Boundaries. Most are very good. Just to give you an idea of how many there…

From My Bookshelf

Bradshaw On: The Family – Best of the best!

12 Jan 2021

“We have no alternative. We must break the sacred rule and question these rules because unless we talk about them, there is no way out. We must evaluate them in…

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And a Merry, Happy, Joyful, Loving, Sparkling, Healthy, Healing Christmas Eve to YOU!

24 Dec 202024 Dec 2020

Snow's-a-comin' this way!! Can I get a whoop-whoop? The holidays have been difficult for me since moving to Canada (read: stomach-tugging, family-missing-difficult). I've never been able to spend it with…

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Bio Moment – The Smith’s

30 Nov 202017 Mar 2021

When my first husband and I married, back in 1980, we were both very lucky to have many of our grandparents except my dad's father, who'd passed away the previous…

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Bio Moment – 34 Days

27 Nov 202027 Nov 2020

How is it that this year has moved at a snail's pace and also sped by? It *almost* doesn't feel real at all. Last year, in 2019, my daughter suggested…

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