Category: Handle with Care 365 2020
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The Importance of the Bathroom Box
When I moved to Kingston, I was 35, and I’d never lived anywhere else. Yeah, I’d had a previous address in a different part of the province when I was a kid. But I’d moved up to Kitchener when I was 12, and my formative years were spent in the tricities, calling them home, planting roots,…
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Settling the Score, Part II (Rebel Soul)
Jan is not a unicorn. It’s that we’ve become so accustomed to the mundane, that anything which seers the mediocrity must be magic. I’ve been richly blessed by the love of my best friend. Wholly, fully, completely, without judgement or reservation. He cooks, and cleans, and works hard. He owns a home, and a truck,…
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Settling the Score, Part I (Wild Child)
“Settle down”, they say. I’ve heard this my whole life. My whole wild child, big mouthed, drama-filled life. When I was a little girl, I was loud. I sucked up all the air in the room with my big ideas, my “plays” and “productions”. And when I was pissed off, I was louder. If it…
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Why weight?
I keep asking myself this over and over. It’s like that Peter Griffin meme – who the hell cares? The fact is – we all care. We care about weight, our appearance, and how we’re seen when we step out the door. At least in some capacity. Confidence should outshine the scale. And I get…
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When it’s no longer January 1st …
We missed it. We blinked. And we missed it. January 1st has already slipped through the cracks. Sort of what happened at our house on New Year’s Eve. We were two minutes to the countdown, sharing a glass of bubbly (apple juice for Kids B & C), and thought – oh hey, we should put on …
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