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New Year Questionnaire – Looking back at 2024

Posted on 22 February, 2025 by dilovelyadmin

It’s a new year! Actually not that new. Mid-to-late February, for Pete’s sake. This post takes forever, especially now that I consult my family for authenticity. But linear time be damned! (It’s all a construct anyway.) I wonder if there’s a formula for calculating how fast time flies for a person in any given year….

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The New Year Questionnaire – What Was Up in 2023

Posted on 31 January, 2024 by dilovelyadmin

Here it is! Been working on the New Year Questionnaire since New Year’s, predictably. It’s still January (barely) and not yet Lunar New Year, so it’s still “timely”. What did you do in 2023 that you’d never done before? D: Attended the Annual General Meeting of the provincial Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario in Toronto….

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Dilovely’s 90s Coming-of-Age Playlist: The Canadian Edition

Posted on 29 August, 20236 September, 2023 by dilovelyadmin

Well, you’ve either been waiting on tenterhooks or perhaps completely forgotten about it… but here is the Canadian Edition of Dilovely’s 90s Coming-of-Age Playlist(s)! My top thirty. The kind of blog post that seems manageable-ish even at the end of a whirlwind summer where the news cycle was devastating every single effing day. SONGS, people. Put your…

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The New Year Questionnaire – a look back at 2022

Posted on 25 January, 202323 June, 2023 by dilovelyadmin

Here’s the New Year Questionnaire! As per tradition, not even close to “on time.” (Though not as late as some New Years.) Also – shorter than it used to be, and adjusted this year to be a bit more contemplative, inspired by my amazing cousin-sister Quinn at The Retreat Space. AND… guess what, I’ve been…

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Canadian Christmas, Vol 1: “New” Stuff – Dilovely’s Playlist

Posted on 24 December, 2022 by dilovelyadmin

Merry Christmas Eve, lovelies! It’s time for a playlist, based on the Canadian Christmas song list I made for myself last year. I was inspired by a couple of relatively recent, unique holiday-themed songs I’d heard that I liked. Which sounds overly obvious, but let me tell you: I do not adopt new Christmas songs…

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Farewell to Queen Elizabeth II – and maybe British queens in general?

Posted on 9 September, 20229 September, 2022 by dilovelyadmin

Here it is, one random Canadian’s take on the death of Queen Elizabeth. I have to admit, even having heard on the morning news yesterday that she was “under medical supervision,” I was shook when I found out that she had died. I mean, she was ninety-six. She had seventy years of being Queen. Didn’t it just…

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Dilovely’s New Year Questionnaire for 2021

Posted on 16 January, 202213 February, 2022 by dilovelyadmin

Here we are! The fresh (2-week-old) new year of 2022! Off to a roaring start with Omicron. A friend of mine on Facebook was reflecting this New Year’s that at the end of 2020, we were so happy to see the year finish, full of hope for an end to the pandemic. Then, 2021 crushed…

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Bill Wurtz: a prophet helping us through the pandemic

Posted on 17 May, 202110 February, 2022 by dilovelyadmin

You know how humans turn to music to keep them going during tough times? That has been very true for our family during the pandemic. In our house, Bill Wurtz is one musician in particular who has helped us the most in this long, stressful year. Last spring, our son E (who was ten at…

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New Year’s Questionnaire for 2020: The Year The World Stood Still

Posted on 27 January, 20218 February, 2021 by dilovelyadmin

It’s always fun to post a piece so late that it’s basically irrelevant… Sigh. (And this piece would still be waiting to be finished if it weren’t for the long dentist appointment the kids and I had last week that gave me an hour in which I couldn’t work on report cards.) At least I…

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Rest In Peace, Alex Trebek – Gratitude Day 9

Posted on 9 November, 2020 by dilovelyadmin

Tonight, I feel gratitude for the legacy of Alex Trebek. I’ve never blogged about a game show host before. I don’t even watch game shows. The only one I’ve ever watched on a regular basis was Jeopardy – through university up until Sean and I cancelled our TV channels several years ago. In fact, Jeopardy…

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