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On Learning to Make Time {Ellen’s Picks Linkup}

I’ve got at least 100 hobbies, and a craft room overflowing with supplies. I’m also a wife, mama, daughter, active community member, business owner, and, wouldn’t you know it, my first strength (according to StrengthsFinder) is Responsibility.

Friends, that’s a lot to be responsible for.

This fall, when I launched a brand-new initiative for women of […]

On Being No Longer Young

Am I no longer young, and still half-perfect? Let me
 keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be
 astonished.
Mary Oliver, “Messenger”

Friends, this week I had a birthday. I’ve been saying that it is my first annual 39th birthday, which cracks me up, these […]

Why I’m Grateful for My Adoption Story

I’m so grateful to have my friend Lorilee Craker visiting today. I was honoured to write an endorsement for her memoir, Anne of Green Gables, My Daughter and Me: What My Favourite Book Taught Me about Grace, Belonging & the Orphan in Us All. In the spirit of learning to give thanks, and the […]

Learning to Give Thanks: Family

Recently I realized that, as the calendar turns to October, my mood changes to cranky as I look ahead to long days of dark and snow and cold and ice (and misery) in my adopted homeland. (Dear, dear Ontario, I love you, and you gave me blessed husband and sweet baby, but your winter lasts […]