Tag: love

• “What if it is her last…”

  The firsts. But not the good kind of “firsts”. The firsts that come after someone dies. First birthdays, Christmas. Anniversaries. Everything feels so empty and hollow. No one really knows what to say or how to feel. Much like having kids, there isn’t really a book on how to deal with all of this (there…

  Corrie

  August 27, 2026

  Blog, journalling, Memories, Musings

  death, family, grief, grieving, life, losing your mother, loss, love, Memories, mental health, mom, mother-daughter, Mothers & Daughters, motherwound, Writing

• August One Word: Trust & the Penguitorium

  I am a little behind… But that’s okay. Sometimes, life happens. Gone are my days of stressing myself over it. I also decided I was handling this all wrong. I should write only about the words that spark interest or passion in me. It doesn’t have to be daily, and why assign an exact date…

  Corrie

  August 11, 2026

  Blog, gratitude, journalling, Musings

  family, fiction, husbands, laughter, life, love, marriage, Memories, penguins, penguitorium, relationships, trust, Writing

• What’s in a Name?

  I saw it today. Printed in black on the sepia paper and it glared at me. I tried to force myself to look at it and my breath caught in my throat. I always loved her name, but seeing it printed there, on that terrible textured paper, my name emblazoned across the top, was like…

  Corrie

  August 5, 2026

  Blog, depression, Musings

  cancer, death, family, grief, life, loss, love, missing you, Mothers & Daughters, Writing

• August 3 One Word: Gratitude

  It is a word many struggle with. When it comes down to it, we all have so many things to be grateful for but it is often difficult to articulate it. The sun, our bed, my warm clothes in the winter, full bellies, hot coffee. Air. I have never been more grateful for a breath…

  Corrie

  August 4, 2026

  Blog, Countdown, gratitude

  coffee, cookies, delight, gratitude, health, indulgence, life, Lion’s Gate Portal, love, mental health, mindfulness, Writing

• August: One word journaling (August 1&2)

  I would like to get going with writing again, and while I’ve been paper journaling, I haven’t taken the time to write here. I am looking to “Ordinary & Happy” on Facebook for inspiration. A few weeks ago, they posted a one-word journaling prompt for the month of August that resonated with me. It invoked…

  Corrie

  August 2, 2026

  Astrology, Blog, Countdown, Lion’s Gate Portal, Memories, Musings

  dreams, family, fathers & daughters, journal prompts, life, lions gate portal, love, ordinary and happy, Path to the Portal, Writing, yoga

• 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…

  Corrie

  July 3, 2026

  Blog, gratitude, journalling, Musings

  gratitude, health, intuition, July Writing Challenge, life, listening to your body, love, mental health, pain management, pulmonary embolism, Writing

• 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…

  Corrie

  May 17, 2026

  Blog, Memories, Musings

  bananas, death, family, grief, grieving, healing, life, loss, love, Memories, mental health, mothers and daughters, Writing

• 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…

  Corrie

  May 11, 2026

  gratitude, journalling, Memories

  family, life, love, Memories, mom, mother’s day, mothers and daughters, Writing

• “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…

  Corrie

  May 1, 2026

  Blog, gratitude, journalling, Memories, Musings

  best friends, communication, family, grief, life, love, Memories, mothers, Mothers & Daughters, mourning, saying goodbye, sisters, Writing

• 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…

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  March 27, 2026

  Blog, gratitude, journalling, Memories

  birthdays, family, gratitude, life, love, Memories, Mothers and Sons, Writing