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HOPE for Christmas this year
I have been feeling so pressured to write a Christmas post. Something touching for the season? I have been struggling for weeks now and I seriously have come up with nothing. It’s not that I don’t like Christmas, I do. It’s just that my…
taking the day off
I have decided that I’m not going to be a mom today. Or a girlfriend, or a sister, or a daughter or even a friend. Yes. I am taking the day off. A day off from being everything to everyone. Today is going to be for me. A day to do what I…
can you still sit cross-legged?
Sometimes age can feel like a brick hitting you in the face; like when you realize: you no longer know who the hell any of the celebrities on magazine covers are and look to your teenage daughter for answers you remember a time when a…
quote for the day
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin Don’t go! There is so much more to read! Click to go home and don’t forget to subscribe now for FREE to…
low self-esteem is not just for teenagers
I cannot believe that I’m writing about low self-esteem! I mean, we’re not teenagers anymore, shouldn’t we be over this by now? Well, apparently not. Studies show that, although self-esteem issues are high during adolescence, lessening as…
how many kilograms are in a pound?
If you’re Canadian and in the 50-plus age bracket – like me – then you actually remember when Canada converted from the imperial measurement system to metric. The change was phased in gradually and the whole conversion took about 10 years.…
buy a casket at Costco?
[Original image unavailable]No. I’m not shopping for a casket. I was on the Costco website, just looking around for Christmas present ideas, when I noticed in the department list down the left side, between “Food & Gift Baskets” and…
a senior moment – wear your glasses in the bathroom!
My BF wears glasses but they’re kind of part-time glasses. He can see without them (or so he says) but he sees “better” with them on. He definitely needs to wear glasses for reading, movies and driving. And he’s found out the hard way that…
Netflix – do I really want to watch more TV?
First there was cable and my how cable has grown. We’ve gone from a couple of channels to over 500 that includes regular network TV, specialty channels, pay-per-view channels and on-demand TV and movies. Then satellite TV was all the rage.…
exercise your memory
How’s your memory? Mine is getting worse every year. Did you know that a 60-year-old brain takes in information two to three times slower than a 20-year-old brain? As a result, what’s stored in memory is two to three times less clear and…
spinning! it’s like riding a bike
I’ve recently discovered spinning and I think I’ve finally found “the one” . The exercise that’s so fun and easy, it’s like riding a bike! Actually, it’s not LIKE riding a bike, it IS riding a bike. Some people run, some people do yoga,…
what the heck is a Troll?
No. I’m not referring to the troll doll with the bad haircut. I’m talking about the Internet Troll. The definition of an Internet Troll on Wikipedia is: a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people,…
