At Thanksgiving, among all the crisp white platters and dishes, I chose to bring out a serving bowl & bread plate from my Great-Grandmother’s set. I never knew Grandma Engstrom, a farm wife in rural Alberta, who immigrated in the early 1920’s from Wisconsin; Bohemian in descent, married to a Swedish immigrant baker that […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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