For a while now, I’ve been thinking of writing about my complicated relationship with animals. Pets, really. I’ve thought long and hard about it for a couple of reasons: I know, with absolute certainty, that I am going to offend someone. I don’t like to offend people, but it’s going to happen if I write a post […]
Month: January 2016
The Sound of Silence
I did something this morning that I haven’t done in a really long time. I turned off the radio on my drive into town. Usually I listen to the news or a podcast, sometimes I’ll listen to music, but not this morning. This morning I was craving some quiet. More than that really, I was […]
Rethinking the “Golden Years”
I went to visit my Aunt the other day. She’s living in an extended care facility. While her mind is sharp, her body has betrayed her with the tremors of Parkinson’s disease and brittle bones. Her life has been reduced to mostly the confines of her room, which is decorated with the beautiful and intricate […]
The Day of Great Humiliation
Everyone else was laughing. I wasn’t. I was hunched down in my seat, face turned toward the bus window…waiting…waiting until my stop when I could get off that stupid school bus and away from those rotten boys. At the time I was glad there weren’t more kids left on the bus, but I also knew […]
How I learned to talk so people will listen…
I live about a half hour from town so I do a lot of driving. I prefer talk radio so my choices are limited to CBC, which I enjoy, or podcasts that I download because I’m too cheap to pay for so-called “commercial-free” satellite radio. My favourite podcast is TEDRadio. They are a mashup of […]