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Thoughts on the Humbling Experience of Extreme Lower Back Pain

Posted on 12 February, 2024 by dilovelyadmin

For the last four days, I have been dealing with my first truly humbling episode of back pain. And when I say humbling, I don’t just mean that it put things in perspective, though it totally did. It also literally put me down – on all fours – for the first part of both Friday…

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Something Small and Simple

Posted on 23 November, 2023 by dilovelyadmin

I have been struggling to write lately. Mostly because there’s this big, horrendous thing happening that weighs heavily on many of our minds… And it’s a thing that feels impossible to write about, but also impossible not to. On social media today, one f/Friend posted this: And another posted this: It’s American Thanksgiving, and although…

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I’m 45 and working on making friends with aging.

Posted on 17 May, 202317 May, 2023 by dilovelyadmin

On May 11th, it was my birthday – forty-five trips around the sun, as they say. I’d say 45 puts me pretty firmly in middle age. I have many thoughts about my current stage of life, and since it’s my belated “birthday post” (I actually started this post more than a year ago, when I…

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“Cancel Canada Day”: reflections on why we need this

Posted on 1 July, 20218 July, 2021 by dilovelyadmin

It’s July 1st, otherwise known as Canada Day. This year, for the first time, Canadians are being asked not to celebrate it. Given the past few weeks, in which we’ve seen confirmation of hundreds and hundreds of dead Indigenous children buried in unmarked graves at residential school sites, the request not to celebrate is absolutely appropriate. As…

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Some Leftover Gratitude for 2021

Posted on 4 January, 2021 by dilovelyadmin

Hi, lovelies, Happy New Year! You might have noticed that I was going strong with my gratitude posts for almost all of November, then suddenly posted nothing at all for more than a month. Yep. In case you wondered, it doesn’t mean that I had no gratitude during that time. Quite the contrary, I was…

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Useful Items That Do Their Jobs – Gratitude Day 24

Posted on 24 November, 2020 by dilovelyadmin

You know when you have an item called a “shoelace” or a “windshield wiper”, where its job is right there in the name, and it just has that one job to do… and it DOESN’T DO IT? It’s supposed to be useful, and then it isn’t. That is a pet peeve of mine. Then there…

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Winter Wonderland Snowfall – Gratitude Day 22

Posted on 22 November, 2020 by dilovelyadmin

Today, I am grateful for the beautiful snow we’re having. Isn’t it great how snow lightens up the world right when you need it most? Just like how shade also offers itself right when you need it. Normally, we don’t really get into the Christmas stuff – music and decorating etc. – until December. The…

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Family of Word Nerds – Gratitude Day 21

Posted on 21 November, 202010 September, 2023 by dilovelyadmin

I’m grateful to be able to say that my children have inherited my penchant for interesting vocabulary. AB is relishing the lessons they’ve been doing in her class on adding “juicy details” to one’s writing. Yesterday, E correctly (and metaphorically) used the word “begat” in a sentence. More on their lexical prowess later. For now,…

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The Diversity of YouTube – Gratitude Day 19

Posted on 19 November, 2020 by dilovelyadmin

Today, I’m feeling grateful for YouTube. It feels funny that I can remember the babyhood of YouTube even though so many people I spend time with every day cannot (because they weren’t even born). I remember thinking, “Who is going to watch random strangers doing inconsequential things in their living rooms?” Turns out, almost everyone!…

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Those Little Moments – Gratitude Day 18

Posted on 18 November, 2020 by dilovelyadmin

Today when I walked into my house after work, I could tell that that guy I love made that food I love because it smelled so good in here. It kinda made my day. (He’s on evening shifts this week, so most of the time we only overlap at home when one or both of…

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