Thursday Time: Keep Going Up that Hill

by | Aug 19, 2011 | Life

I hit 32 pages for the month yesterday.  That’s 8000 words”the goal was 7000. I was getting all upset because I’d miss a day here and there, but seeing the number just reminds me that it’s okay not to be 100%, that if I take a break it’s fine,...

Viktor Frankl Forever

by | Aug 14, 2011 | Life

From his book œMan’s Search for Meaning (an account of his time in Nazi concentration camps): ¦We stumbled on in the darkness, over big stones and through large puddles, along the one road leading from the camp. The accompanying guards kept shouting at us and...

Thursday Time: Singing in the Rain

by | Aug 11, 2011 | Life

Was listening to Gene Kelly’s Singing in the Rain and the sheer audacity of his optimism struck me.  Singing in the rain?! SINGING?! I don’t know where it was raining for him (though I suspect it must have been Alberta since he talks about the clouds...

Thursday Time: Me & the Dragonfly: Part I

by | Jul 28, 2011 | Life

I was on the corner of 149th and Stony Plain, waiting at the stop light when a dragonfly flitted past my windshield. He was on odd thing”obviously caught in wind gusts I could neither see nor hear, his straight path would take a sudden, traumatic dive left or right,...

Thursday Time: Even Oprah Gets the Blues

by | Jul 22, 2011 | Life

My husband says the O Network isn’t doing well. This makes me happy and brings me comfort”not because I like the idea of Oprah failing at something (failing sucks for everyone)”but because it’s a reminder that in every risk there is a chance of failure and...