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Happy Things Friday: 9 February

Can I let you in on a little secret? Some weeks I have to dig really deep to identify happy things. It’s not that they aren’t are, it’s just that the debris of life…

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  • Happy Things Friday, Life
  • Feb, 09, 2024
  • 41 Comments

Life Lately: A Roundup of What I’ve Been Eating, Watching, and Reading + Recipe Recommendations?

Time to talk food, television, and books. Who’s ready?

FOOD

I recently took part in a church-wide fast. For the first time – in my life! – I abstained from food for a spiritual reason, and…

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  • Food, Life, Reading
  • Feb, 08, 2024
  • 48 Comments

What’s In A Name? Let’s Talk Pronunciation, Grandparents, and Other Language Topics

I think we can all agree the English language is a regular ol’ hoot sometimes. The rules, the syntax. The quirks that make absolutely zero sense.

And then there is pronunciation.

Growing up Canadian, I…

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  • Habits, Language, Personality Insights, Random
  • Feb, 07, 2024
  • 67 Comments

My Year of Shmita: January Recap

I’m still not sure how to best track/recap my real-time progression through a “Year of Shmita”; for this month at least, I’m simply going to write down a smorgasbord of ideas without too much…

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  • Quotes, Sabbath, Year of Shmita
  • Feb, 06, 2024
  • 39 Comments

On Flattery, Pinball, and One Size Fits All

One of my favourite ways to prepare a meal – and simultaneously clean out the refrigerator – is to make what our family calls Hodge Podge. I pull together a soup using leftover scraps…

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  • Life, Personality Insights, Random
  • Feb, 05, 2024
  • 35 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 2 February

While I am not sad to see January pass by into my rearview mirror, the last week treated me well with many happy things. I know for some of you reading January kicked your…

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  • Happy Things Friday
  • Feb, 02, 2024
  • 39 Comments

Want To Write a Book with Me This Year?

A few weeks ago our pastor mentioned an idea in passing: What if we looked at our life as a book and assigned each year a unique chapter title? While he continued with his…

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  • Creativity, Life, Personality Insights, Random
  • Feb, 01, 2024
  • 46 Comments
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