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Monday, November 8, 2010

Seven simple words

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"Preach the Gospel; use words if necessary." This is one of my favourite quotes, often attributed to St. Francis, though no one ...
Friday, November 5, 2010

A quick moodling for a busy day

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It's a busy day today, but that's no reason to stop moodling. So today's moodle is a quick one, a favourite of mine from Youtube...
Thursday, November 4, 2010

Simple pleasures... and fair trade chocolate

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This week is my husband's birthday, so I made chocolate chip cookies. Homemade chocolate chip cookies at our house are fairly rare and r...
Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Simple pleasures... and less TV

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I'm rereading one of my favourite books. I don't often reread a book, simply because in the face of how many wonderful books there a...
Tuesday, November 2, 2010

A makeup moodling

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My parents recently gave my daughter the heirloom mirror that hung in my bedroom when I was her age, and it brought back memories of the day...
Monday, November 1, 2010

The simple joy of celebration

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On Friday night, the Edmonton L'Arche community gathered in a church hall and celebrated its cultural diversity. I invited my neighbour ...
Sunday, October 31, 2010

We survived... another Halloween

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Halloween is over for another year. In the end, it turned out to be as much fun as ever. When you're in the midst of costume angst, howe...
Saturday, October 30, 2010

Breathing room

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When I get to heaven, I'm going to ask God about why everything always seems to happen at once. This has been an extremely busy week, to...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

A gift from Thomas

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It has taken Thomas nearly a year to figure out my name and the fact that I'm a regular fixture around the L'Arche Edmonton offices....
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

The Halloween saga continues...

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T minus seven days - Julia decides that it might be okay to go with her original plan for this year's Halloween costume. Sigh of relief....
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Monday, October 25, 2010

Trading places...

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In my work at the clothing room of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, I meet all sorts of people who have many different struggles. The fel...
Saturday, October 23, 2010

Watching the sky

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I've always been a sky person. Maybe that comes from spending the first nine-and-a-half years of my life on flat prairie. Watching cloud...
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Friday, October 22, 2010

I don't actually hate Halloween.... but...

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Two years ago, my youngest daughter developed her own Halloween costume and had a bit of a creative crisis because of it, but came through w...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

Hair: Natural or Not?

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I'm not talking the musical from the sixties. (But did you know its full title is Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical? I didn...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Short Story #1

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Today's moodling is pre-empted by tomatoes, tomatoes and more tomatoes. It's spaghetti sauce day. Rather than leave you moodle-less,...
Monday, October 18, 2010

Coffee and me

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I have a love-hate relationship with coffee. I guess that's probably not unusual -- many people tend to come down on one side or the oth...
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Saturday, October 16, 2010

Budgie update #1

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Meet Pebbles (very close to actual size). Pebbles has been with our family since August 5th. We picked her/him up at a large chain pet stor...
Friday, October 15, 2010

The one who dies with the most toys... has missed the point

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Honestly, there should be a moratorium on stuffed animals in this world. The reason I say this is because my children, like most North Ameri...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

It's not about speed

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At my work at L'Arche, one of my responsibilities is shredding confidential documents for our community leader. It's a somewhat tedi...
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Convenience vs. saving the planet

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Okay, I'll admit it. I drove to work today. And I've driven to work probably twenty out of twenty times in the past two months (I wo...