Happy Birthday, Mom

It is the unresolved complications that torture us the most. I wasn’t there when my Mom died.  She was 92-years-old and living on the west end of Toronto, where she moved to be close to her sister and family after my Dad passed away November 7th, 1995.  She knew no one except me on the […]

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Nancy’s Blogging Challenge

I’m late to the game!  Nancy @ Nancy’s Point challenged readers and writers with 10 Random Things About Cancer at New Summer Blogging Challenge Here are my answers, Nancy! Share anything you want about your cancer diagnosis (or your loved one’s). Share your age, cancer type, stage, when you were diagnosed, family history (if any), […]

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Sunday Daydreams

Today was a perfect day to luxuriate in bed, my head in the clouds. I partied too hardy late Friday and into the wee hours of Saturday with dozens and dozens of my favourite people to celebrate at my Goodbye Cancer! party.  The live band Juggernaut was on fire and the crowd was appreciative.  We […]

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School Lunches

During my early formative years in elementary, we lived right next door to my school, which meant I went home for lunch. I grew up in a quiet, english speaking suburb on the south shore of Montreal, Quebec.  You could only stay at school for lunch if you lived farther away or had no one […]

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15 Totally Random Things About Me

I picked this idea up off another blog, and thought it would be a good entry for today.  I was writing another swan dive slash tear jerker of a post and decided I needed to lighten up.  So here it is … Fifteen Totally Random Things that people don’t know about me.  I’d really love […]

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Authentic Voice

hI have been asked … and my closest friends have been asked … about why I blog. Why I write with such candor.  Except it’s not always called candor. Shock value. Attention whore. Outrageous behaviour. Brutal honesty. Why does she blog that? An art gallery. Best thing I have read in ten years. She gave […]

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Batman was a Six-Year-Old Girl

God, I wish there was a photo of 6-year-old me in my Batman costume.  I *LOVED* Batman – and dressing up – as a child.  Born in the last hour of 1965, I spent my early life as a little girl on my Dad’s knee watching Batman and Star Trek and the Carol Burnett show.  […]

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Telling my story

This is going to be one of those braindumps that bleed out my fingers before I can really think it through, so hang in there! Many years ago at the start of my career, I took Project Management classes.  On the first day of our Intro class, the teacher told us that since we were […]

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