Grateful – April 30, 2022

I’ve found myself doing some easier options in bootcamp lately. Maybe I’m a kind of tired that I don’t quite recognize. Maybe I’m scared of making my hip worse. Whatever it’s about, I don’t like it. So I decided to bring it today. Hard to get up and go when there was a pile of

Grateful – April 29, 2022

My walk from car to office doubled when I switched work assignments in March. Now it’s just enough time to make it worth popping in the earphones and playing a few tunes. Bopping along the sidewalk, mouthing all the words. It’s a nice start to the day. Especially when I can chuckle at myself for

Grateful – April 28, 2022

A woman stopped me on Brunswick this afternoon and asked if I could recommend a nearby restaurant. I pointed her toward the Five Fishermen. Told her yes, she should money in the meter for her car. Showed her the crosswalk to get back and forth quickly and safely. Grateful for the chance to do a

Grateful – April 27, 2022

This is my calendar today. I don’t remember the last time it looked like this. Wide open. Footloose and fancy free. The gift of time. Getting stuff done.

Grateful – April 26, 2022

I did something wild tonight. So wild and crazy, you just won’t believe it. I mean it was out of this world wild, spontaneous, risky. So thrilling. Are you ready? Are you sure? I mean you might want to sit down or brace yourself or something. Ok ready? I didn’t take the laptop home tonight.

Grateful – April 25, 2022

I drove all over creation this evening looking for unscented kitty litter. Must be a supply chain issue, they didn’t have it when I picked up groceries last night so I sniffed a container of other stuff, thought I could stand it but was sorely disappointed when I got home. So I hunted this evening

Grateful – April 24, 2022

I can’t deny the boys the pleasure of a fresh box. Nor can I deny Louis the pleasure of packing paper to shred. Both have been in the spare room since January, along with a bed frame sans mattress since I tossed the ancient one I don’t remember when. Easy to ignore this room in

Grateful – April 23, 2022

Perfect temperature and gorgeous sun for bootcamp. Made the last firewood haul from driveway to indoors of the season (and did not collapse after this on top of all the squats in bootcamp). A nap. A hot shower. A waterfront walk and connect with old friends. Some errands. A pair of jeans on sale for

Grateful – April 22, 2022

I’ve had this print of Province House on my desk for most of my career. It was a door prize at a staff event many moons ago. When the House is in, work life revolves around it and things are hectic. Even more so when you jump straight into it just as you’re hauling yourself

Grateful – April 21, 2022

You know sometimes you nail it when you parallel park and other times it takes 17 back and forths to get it right? Today was not the nailing kind of day. But no matter. The spot I managed to get myself into was directly across the street from Indochine where I’m rapidly developing a Thursday