Seven years ago I sat with my friend in a doctor's office as she was given the diagnosis of cancer. Today, though, Suzon is more alive than most of us, and is my most colourful friend! Yesterday we stopped in to visit her mom, Suzanne. I cannot tell you how much I marveled at the miracle of genetics, or how much I laughed. It was as though I had walked into the future. Suzon and Suzanne are both incredible artists, and so very "colourful" in everything the...

Bonjour du Quebec. We are enjoying the unique experience of feeling like we are in a foreign country. It is great for Tim and me, having our own personal translators and travel guides. Moreover, it seems to be bringing back a whole bunch more Grade 7 memories for the kids that we hadn't heard over the years - which makes it even more exciting. We love the European feel and the agricultural affluence here which still resembles the check and tile fields of Fr...

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to the two most amazing men in my life! It has been one year today, since we moved into our itsy, bitsy, teeney, weeny home. A year I might add, of great adjustment and exposure. We know each other soooo much more intimately now than we ever thought possible! In all honesty, I confess, there have been moments in which I completely understood why some species eat their young... but more often I have simply been amazed by the depth of chara...

We are officially on our way home! We have driven as far East as this trip will take us, and so now we must turn around. In fact we are over 1000 kilometers further from home in our own country, than we were at the very Southern most tip of the Florida Keys in the U.S. Having said that, we are still 6,800 kms from home (including 180 kms of open sea for which we must again take a ferry!) As the Arrogant Worms so eloquently sing, "We're the second largest co...

One of my earliest memories of radio and T.V. was that whatever event was to happen was always announced to be one half hour later in Newfoundland. Hockey Night in Canada was Saturday night at 6:00 - 6:30 in Newfoundland! It was a most peculiar thing but I never questioned it. I never have and to this day have no idea why Newfoundland is on neither Atlantic nor Greenland time but maintains it own half hour difference from the world. Now here I am, living th...