The Voices In My Head

May 1, 2026

“This may sound weird…”

That is how I started the conversation with my sister this morning… Chris (my best friend) told me to talk to her – implored me to. After a late night cry with him over the issue, he told me I had no choice but to broach the subject with her. He assured me that if…

March 27, 2026

Happy 18th to my favourite TroubleMaker

My son is celebrating his 18th birthday today. On this day, 18 years ago, at this time (11ishpm), my husband had gone home for the night, and I was alone with our son. I had been fighting a terrible cold! When we arrived that morning at the hospital, I had gone in to be induced…

March 10, 2026

Haha. I am such a bad adult, I forgot to title it

I had plans to write every other day this month. My outline sits abandoned. The post for March 6 sits unpublished, 8 – unwritten, and here we are on the 10th, 35 minutes before midnight and I have nothing written. These deadlines are arbitrary. They are my self-imposed deadlines, but I like to place them…

March 6, 2026

What you feel when you look up at the sky

I grew up in the country. Away from the city lights. Away from the light pollution. Where the sky rolls on for miles and the stars shine brightly at night. Constellations were easily seen and the Northern Lights were a pretty routine occurrence. The sky never made me feel small. Except for when we were…

March 4, 2026

Most awe-inspiring wildlife I’ve seen in its natural habitat

This topic piqued my curiosity because I have seen a lot of animals in a lot of places. Bears, elk, moose. Beavers, deer, prong horned antelope. Whales, dolphins. Porcupine, grizzlies. A lot of animals, all in their natural homes. So how do you pick just one? Well, if you’ve read my site a while, you’ll…

March 2, 2026

Fictional character that inspired me growing up

Hands down, Laura Ingalls Wilder. While one could argue, she was indeed not fictional, as she was a real person, most of the stories we all know Laura for best, were fictionalized accounts of her life. While I read all the books (in the school library, repeatedly) and all seven volumes sit on my personal…

January 10, 2026

What is this feeling?

I was sitting here, late this Saturday evening, rethinking the day I’ve had. My siblings and I all gathered at Mom’s – to collect some stuff, talk about a few things, and eventually meet with my Dad and step-Mom to celebrate my step-Mom’s 70th birthday. All went well. It was a good day. Yesterday, I…

January 1, 2026

New Year’s Day – good luck/back luck -> Tradition vs Superstition

I don’t know about you, but my Facebook feed was filled with all the things I should and should not do today, eat and not eat, put out and not put out. It is dizzying. Eat 12 grapes at midnight. Black-eyed peas and cabbage. Don’t do laundry. Sweep, don’t sweep. Shower, don’t shower. Don’t take…

December 31, 2025

What I am taking with me into 2026

Well, besides doing everything at the last minute, and I am not sure I actually want to take that with me, there are other things I want to take with me into 2026. Like writing with more frequency. I write because I like writing, but I am very glad I have been making time to…

December 31, 2025

What I am ready to leave behind in 2025

This post has take me a couple of days to write because it is a bit of a difficult topic for me to write about… While the concept of ‘letting go’ or ‘leaving things behind’ seems very easy, the practical application, to truly leave these things behind, takes planning and work. I did a workshop…