Go Ahead: Delight in The Little Things

December 17, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

(Image my own)

Bomb Canada?

December 10, 2025.Reading time 1 minute.

My husband showed me a post last week that said the US Ambassador to Canada had stated that if Canada wasn’t going to treat the US any better then they might as well bomb our parliament buildings. I was incensed, and ready to retaliate with a hateful post of my own…except… I decided to fact […]

Cold Moon

December 7, 2025.Reading time 1 minute.

December’s Cold Moon this year fell on the third consecutive month. This Supermoon is said to be a good time to ask for what we want. I’m never good at asking for what I want, so I hope I don’t get a big heaping lot of uncertainty, lol. (Taken with my iPhone, and it was […]

Deck the Halls

December 3, 2025.Reading time 1 minute.

I dress up for the occasion, happy that the day has finally come to trim the tree. Then, after fluffing out the branches (our tree is artificial as I’m allergic to the real ones), I am exhausted. The nature of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. No worries, though, our Ukrainian roommate is eager to help and in no […]

November 26, 2025.Reading time 3 minutes.

I knew from the moment she walked in the house that something was wrong. Our Ukraine roommate is usually sunny and eager to greet us when she comes home. But on this occasion, she turned her head away so I could not see what she was hiding. “It wasn’t my fault”, she responded when I […]

Endless Clouds

November 23, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I never tire of Autumn skies – the clouds have so many stories to tell. Images are from out in the country and here in town.

Junk Drawers

November 19, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I’m attending Restorative Yoga classes. It is yoga positions totally supported. Relaxing. Focus on breath and on releasing tension. We do something called supported fish (I think) – lying face down with a bolster under our hips. “Our junk drawers”, the instructor says and I almost laugh out loud. The last time I went for […]

A Favourite Woodpecker

November 16, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Although their call is quite loud, these beautiful, bright-headed birds are elusive. I had to be patient and sneaky to capture these shots of the Red-bellied Woodpecker.

Snow’s Arrival

November 12, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The three and nine year olds don’t want to come in out of the snow. The parents are too cold to stay out – not yet attired properly. I feel my bones ache at the chill of it. How quickly our perceptions change, but isn’t that life? A bird’s eye view:

November Moon

November 9, 2025.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Photographed above our home, Thursday, Nov. 6, 7:40 pm

Mother

When I had a mothermy hair would cascadein curls of auburn perfectiona red velvet bow to accentuate the wave And I’d wear my bestnewly sewn frockwith lace at the neckand fishnet stockingsand patent Mary Janes And the girls giggling with delightwould skip hand-in-handto the school promand the boys shyly perchedagainst the back wall would wonderhow […]

Lull (tanka)

Self-Sufficient

Isolated and incapacitatedI am prohibited from partakingof the influx of information incessantly presented consequently cut offfrom prescribed expectationsdictating costuming and culture external expressions of acceptanceare sorely missing, suggestingan overall lack of self-worth. Interestingly inverse to such conclusionsis the sudden contentment that arisesfrom escaping the mayhem Internal relief overrides dictated performancesurrendering willingly to intrinsic motivationand renewed […]