When someone deliberately hurts us, it stings. Often for a long time. Sometimes it’s hard to let it go. And we nurse that hurt. Playing it over and over. So, it never heals. It just festers. The problem is that ruminating doesn’t fix the hurt. If you can’t take any action to change the situation,…
My cousins have a cottage. And they are very generous about inviting friends and family to share it with them. It’s a lovely place on a small lake. There are some boats and other water vehicles, but not too many. And it only gets busy in the afternoon. There’s plenty of quiet time… Relaxation. And…
I’m on the other side of this self-imposed blogging challenge. I’ve been averaging a post a day since the beginning of January. Only four and a half months left to go. And I’ve noticed a pattern. I seem to do well with my posting at the beginning of the month. Sticking closely to a post…
One of Zig Ziglar’s most frequent piece of advice was this: You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. I saw Zig speak years ago in Toronto. And he repeated that phrase many times. In fact, I went down a rabbit hole confirming…
I went for a run today. I headed out thinking that I would run 16km or 20km. It would depend on how I felt. After the first hour, I decided that I would go for the 20km distance. In total, it took me three hours to run 20km. That’s an average of 9 minutes per…
Well, I’ve started wearing them anyway. And they’re not sunglasses exactly. They’re blue light blocking glasses. For years, I’ve read the suggestion that we should wear blue light blocking glasses at night. I even installed the flux app on my previous computer. It activates in the evening. And switches your desktop to an amber glow…
Our fridge died on Tuesday, and we didn’t get a replacement until Saturday. Well, the fridge part died. The freezer part didn’t. But the freezer was starting to go by Saturday morning. As I emptied the freezer part, I noticed a couple of things beginning to thaw. It lasted long enough to pass on the…
I went for a walk the other day. And as part of my walk, I strolled along Wilson Street. It’s a street I drive along all the time. It becomes a one-way street and makes for a good route to by-pass some of the traffic on the way home from downtown. It’s bumpy and not…
Ah, the joy of opening the fridge door and realizing that it isn’t cold inside. This was Tuesday evening. The lights came on. There was power. But no coldness. On the bright side, the freezer part is still working. So, our frozen stuff was safe. Unfortunately, we were out that evening, so this problem…
As I was writing about our recent mini Vacation, I remembered another one we had a couple of weeks ago. But it got lost between my week of Woo-Woo and my Fringe posts. We missed the first weekend of the Hamilton Fringe because we were camping. With our friends, Ken and Ramona Mitchell. Who are…
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