Something happened to me today, and it took me a while to process my feelings. It was an emotional event, and I wasn't quite sure why, because all we did was go see a movie. Except it wasn't just a movie. It was Wonder Woman. From the second that young Diana is mimicking the movement of the amazons training below her, I had tears in my eyes. I looked at my partner and said "There's our girl." He knew exactly what I meant and smiled, squeezing my hand. He frequently laughs at me (with …
I Let My Life Go To The Dogs And Found Joy In The Process
In the spring of 2016, I read the book The Happiness Equation and to say it changed my life would be an understatement. The message of the book resonated with me deeply, especially when it emphasized doing things that make you happy. But before I write about that let’s go back to April 25th 2001. At the time I lived in Ontario and my mom lived in Manitoba, she had made plans to retire at 60 and was going to move to be closer to my sister and I and our families. April 25th is the day she …
Trolls Helped Me See What’s Important
I am a working mom of a very busy 3.5-year old, and with my husband working a night shift, we don’t get enough time in the day to just be together. It’s tough, and we absolutely cherish the time we do find; so no, that laundry pile is going anywhere any time soon. A lot of things like that fall by the wayside in our effort to spend as much time together as a family as we can; thank god for my dear friend who has a cleaning business—she does my floors and bathrooms, so they at least get done …
10 Books You Need to Go Back and Read NOW
Image source: BNW Movie Production It feels, increasingly, as though we’re living in a time that will go down in the history books as the defining moment of the century. Regardless of where you currently live, there are challenges we couldn’t imagine we would face, back when we were studying history and reading classic literature in high school. But really, who knew we were studying playbooks for our future, back when we were analyzing dystopian novels? Turns out, there are a fair …
The Great Gilly Hopkins Nails It
Movies need to get quite a bit of information across to the viewer in their very short opening scenes, and The Great Gilly Hopkins did not disappoint; Gilly showed her tough-as-nails attitude and made me love her completely within a few seconds; what's not to love about a sassy tween?? Says the naive mother of a sassy threenager... Adapted from the award-winning, 1978 novel by Katherine Paterson, it's not a "new" story--angry tween bounced from foster home to foster home, finds family at …
