Have you ever held a book in your hands and felt the energy of the story literally flow out of the pages and into your very own soul? It lingers deliciously within you as you exhale to gaze off into the magical world of, “if...
Yesterday, one of my most favourite people on the planet asked me if she thought it would be weird if she attended an Ash Wednesday service. I knew immediately why she asked and what she was feeling. Through baptism, she is Catholic. Through life she...
Her timeless presence made her twinkle with a feeling of “home.” During the day, she was a teacher, instilling good graces and phonics to her grade one students which periodically included one of her 8 children. If your Mom was your teacher then you called...
Four days before the first day of Autumn I had the privilege of performing a marriage ceremony at an upscale Country Club. I knew it was going to be special but I had no idea truly what was about to happen. Just as everyone was topping...
Just recently a quote danced across my newsfeed. It was 13 words of powerful, relevant, truth. Someone brilliantly summed up an essence of survival by saying, “And … In the end…All I learned…Was how…To be Strong…Alone.” Amen, right? It’s like listening to the words of...
They couldn’t have picked a better colour to represent Covid-19 lockdown. It’s the colour of fog. That misty, illusion creating, hallucinating provoking filter that prevents you from seeing your safe pathway forward. The more you try to restore your vision, the hazier it seems to...
On June 6, 1932 Sarah arrived to start a life that would strengthen her soul through the sharp edges of life lessons and fill her spirit by virtue of the love that finally found her. Less than one month before Sarah was born, Amelia Earhart...
Leo was a man that spent 86 years, 10 months and 29 days effortlessly making magic within moments and leaving love in his wake. That sentence might almost sound contrite, maybe even too sappy to read on, but I encourage you to take the plunge. Born...
The “casualty count” from Covid-19 is as mind-blowing as the pandemic itself. There has been a massive sense of loss. Loss of freedom. Loss of finance. Loss of dreams. Loss of self and very sadly, loss of lives. It has been a pandemic of pause. Of...
Most times I write about tender lives who slipped away with a sense of peace. Most certainly fulfillment. And most definitely gratitude for the footprints they left behind. The life story I am about to tell doesn’t roll with that flow, yet I’m compelled to...