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Lunching Ladies
I love to meet friends for lunch. In big groups, or small groups, or when it’s just two of us. We catch up with each other’s lives, trade travel stories, or family stories, swap books… whatever. I guess you could …
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Six Weeks on the Road… Notes from a Weary Traveller
Six weeks on the road and I’m a gonna make it home tonight… well, not tonight, exactly, but the day after tomorrow night. Apologies to Dave Dudley for misquoting his classic sixties country and western song. And apologies to those …
Bonnechere Provincial Park
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Fall Camping…Far From The Madding Crowd
October. Fall. Temperature dropping. Sweater weather. Most people are putting their gardens to bed and packing away lawn chairs and beach toys. Yet, we’re packing and loading the truck and heading up the Ottawa Valley for our last camping trip …
Bull Durham
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Why I Love Golf. Ha. And It’s Not Why You Think.
I love golf. I started to play not long after I met my husband. He’s an avid and excellent golfer and has been playing since he was a teenager. It all started with his teaching me to swing the club …
bloggers
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Shame on Me
I love this photo; let’s call it “Looking Out My Backdoor”… cue Creedence Clearwater Revival. I took the shot in early May as the new leaves were just beginning to unfurl. I was climbing the stairs from our basement after …
40+ fashion
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Getting Out More: The Secret to Healthy Aging for You and Your Wardrobe
I have a friend who is currently participating in a longitudinal study on aging. Conducted by McMaster University, the study looks at various factors in our lives which affect how well we cope with aging. She’s mentioned the study to me …
identity
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New And Improved: Fashioning My New Self in Retirement
Last week I wrote a post about aging, and where I fit on what I dubbed the “beauty intervention continuum.” In a nutshell, I’m pro-hair dye and make-up, but anti-Botox. And I said, at the time, that I am not …
happy marriage
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The Happy Homemaker… Not.
I am not a happy homemaker. Remember Betty White in that role on the Mary Tyler Moore Show in the seventies? She could cook, and clean, and smile prettily all at the same time. She made homemaking sexy, supposedly. Well, I’m …
aging
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Not Just Sittin’ Around, Grace.
I’m retired from teaching as most of you know if you read this blog regularly. And if you don’t, well… I’m retired, as I said. And Grace Coddington is not. I retired three years ago after thirty years in the …
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Telling Your Inner Critic to Shut It.
Learning to tell your inner critic to shut it is not easy. But necessary. Otherwise you can miss out on a ton of enjoyable activities.