The Voices In My Head

July 3, 2026

July Writing Challenge: skill I want to work on this month

Aren’t I always working on something? Life is funny like that. A constant series of steps towards self-improvement. Do we ever get it figured out? Maybe. But maybe that would be enlightenment, but then we probably die or something like that so I am okay with continuing to work on stuff. I do think that…

July 2, 2026

Best laid plans & a bad back

I decided a few days ago, as I looked at four unpublished posts, that perhaps I’d start another writing challenge in July to motivate myself back into writing & publishing here again. As I declared to my sister “I am in a funk” and needed something to kick start myself. However, life had other plans.…

May 21, 2026

You’re studying what?

Last September, I started on a journey… But it started in May, really. I decided to sign up to train to be a… Yoga instructor. A what? Yes, a yoga instructor. But… but… You’re disabled! Why, thank you for noticing. My Mom loved yoga. She did yoga when I was a kid. I attribute my…

May 17, 2026

The Banana Counter

I had a moment today. When I was in the Sobey’s in Spruce Grove, I realized, as I stood there in the bakery department, that I hadn’t been there since before my mom died. It was her local grocery store, and the one that she preferred. It was smaller and quieter than the other stores in…

May 11, 2026

The Mom shaped hole

It is Mother’s Day. Many have sent me their thoughts and well wishes as this is the ‘first’ Mother’s Day without Mom – a day that is evidently harder than most. Except that it isn’t. Not really. Friday was worse. Friday was my sister’s birthday. We went for lunch. Without Mom. We had coffee and…

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…