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It’s called Facebook … a place where we can see your Face

In our world divided, what seems to have unified us is our ability to wage wars behind screens. On keyboards. Remember Justine Sacco? The woman who tweeted an extremely racist “joke”, and before her flight landed in Africa, her entire world was demolished? Here’s an additional nine more folks who were removed from their places…

‘Ohana’ means family …

DNA, not so much. ‘Ohana’, explained Lilo in Lilo & Stitch, means ‘family, and family means no one gets left behind, or forgotten.’ My children and I live by this mantra. We are a family. DNA does not necessarily dictate who is, and who isn’t family. Not to us, anyway. I have a sister of…

is it raining where you are?

Everyone is dealing with it. During the throes of February, when we’re just about freaking done with the grimness of winter, the lack of sunshine, and the rumour of spring, we’re done. And we’re all dealing with it. Far be it for me to dismiss that this has been a fairly mild winter in comparison…

You’re the one responsible for changing

But you might think – why can’t they? It doesn’t matter. And it doesn’t make a lick of difference. You’re in control of facilitating change. And redirecting the narrative. Only you have the power to break what’s cyclical, or what’s been held as normal. Only you are responsible for changing. I’ve been parenting now for…

Get Outta My Dreams … Get Into My Car

And drive. And while you’re driving, tune into Country 93.5. I am so, so excited to letchy’all know that we’re shaking things up a bit – a lot – at the station. I started my radio career with Rogers in 2014. I graduated Conestoga College in May, and I was behind the mic on Country…

I’m not ignoring you

Or am I? Sometimes, I can’t tell the difference. I know you messaged me. I saw that you called. I forgot to return that text message, because it slipped through my memory and all that I wanted to was to write back and say that I’m sorry I couldn’t see it I couldn’t be it…

wake me up before you go-go

He’s sleeping in his chair, after a long day. After a long day, dinner, and a new series on Netflix for us to binge. But he isn’t going to bed, because he’s waiting for his girlfriend to finish her blog, so that he can edit it before she publishes. Before bed, he carefully spoons out…

The couple who …

Forget it. It’s too late to blog. *yawns*

What’s in a name?

Remember when Phoebe changed her name to Princess Consuela Banana Hammock? A bunch of years ago, I changed my name to ‘Care’. A friend shortened it. Sometimes my Mom called me it. But suddenly, I’d taken on something totally different. A totally different person. And I developed her into a thing. A brand. An identity….

What’s your dream? he asked

In Pretty Woman, a minor character shown in the background of Hollywood when Edward meets Vivian, yells: “What’s your dream?” Over and over. He’s shown in this scene, and in one of the final. “What’s your dream?” What’s yours? What will be your legacy? As Mama Gump explains to Forrest on her death bed, “We all…