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Let’s Catch Up – July
New Beginnings At the beginning of July we moved into a new home. Sometime in the last few months someone I was talking to or something I was reading compared moving to the act of giving birth. Having done both I can attest that this analogy tracks. It begins with the initial excitement; the declaration…
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All The Small Things
“What if I don’t have as much to give as everyone else?” I’m in a zoom meeting with a group of fellow business owners and we’re discussing the merits of how a giving economy can help us to turn our own successes into the successes of others when a colleague asks this question, “What if…
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I Think I’m Alone Now
There is a memory from my childhood that I have been thinking about a lot lately. My mom and I are fighting. I can’t recall what the fight is about – it was likely the result of me doing something I wasn’t supposed to, or not doing something I was supposed to, or the even…
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Small Tattoo. Big Meaning.
I am covered in tattoos. The art on my body encompasses everything from a phoenix to a unicorn to a taco and beyond. Truthfully, I’ve lost track of just how many times I have sat on an artist’s table since my first tattoo 24 years ago. Some of the art work represents something special in…
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You Bet Your Ass – A Rectal Cancer Memoir
“You have a large tumour in your rectum.”, he said. Two thoughts ran through my head. “I knew it.” and “Why is he smiling?”. I Knew It (Part One) I remember with perfect clarity the moment I started feeling ill. It was February of 2014 and we had gotten up at an un-godly hour of…
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The Thing I Think Everyone Deserves
This past Monday was a holiday in Canada. Eager to capitalize on some extra rest time, my husband and I skipped the alarm and decided to sleep in. At the glorious hour of 8 am I began to stir from my slumber, first gaining awareness of my body and the physical world around me, and…
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The Blog I Said I Wouldn’t Write
“I’m so sorry…but not really because it’s my blog and I can do what I want.” Me Remember when I launched my blog a month ago and specifically said that although I own a company that sells blinds, this blog would not be about window coverings? Well friends, I guess I lied. Or at least…
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What’s My Age Again?
As kids we were taught that it is not polite to ask a woman how old they are. Lately I’ve begun to wonder, why is that? My guess is that it is some kind of antiquated edict meant to protect the “fragility” of a woman. Especially an “older woman” who has probably lost her beauty,…
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Why a blog? Why now?
You might say I’m a little late to this whole blogging game and I would 100% have to agree with you. I am just a few weeks shy of my 42nd birthday, I have two boys at home, I own a business with my husband and most days I feel like I could not possibly…
Blind Enthusiasm. The Blog. 