I’ve been out for solitary walks, minding the social distance. I see the occasional couple walking together, a parent and child or an adult walking a dog. We all still need exercise in some way. I hear birds singing, … Continue reading →
Friends and I have been talking on social media about the social distancing. A fellow storyteller, John, came up with a better term, physical distancing. I replied that the people who invented the term “social distancing” should have hired … Continue reading →
Just over a week ago, friends through Toastmasters gathered at my home, by invitation, for a craft afternoon. We’d talked about it at our Christmas gathering, set a date and now here we were, ready for it. We’d also discussed, … Continue reading →
When the snow begins to melt and the temperature edges into a bit milder state, I begin to dream of spring, of taking down winter wreaths and eventually putting away winter coats and boots. But it’s alternately cold and wintry … Continue reading →
February is Black History month. Members of the former Maranatha congregation have joined Mount Zion Lutheran Church in Waterloo. That church hosted the celebration this year. Maranatha Lutheran, a small Lutheran Caribbean mission congregation, once shared our building so I … Continue reading →
In January fellow writer Helena Smrcek offered a challenge to anyone who wished to join her, and that was decluttering one’s home. I chose to jump in, and as I had already started the process on my own during … Continue reading →
From my poetpotter blog Today it’s snowing, just the light snowflakes borne by the wind. Tracks in my backyard make me think that some rabbits in the neighbourhood had quite a time in the crisp clean snow. We could … Continue reading →
In Toastmasters there’s no end to the kind of project we can take on to practise leadership and communication skills. Apart from contests that bear a competitive edge of speaking before our group, there are also individual projects and leadership … Continue reading →
People who want to be a writer have asked me, “How do you start?” and “What do you write?” They think they’d like to write, but they don’t know how to get started. If the above photo of a small … Continue reading →
Last Saturday was such a wintry day. The snow kept falling and didn’t seem to stop. It would be a white day for sure. Our winter has been such a mix of weather thus far. The day before, a … Continue reading →
