The Bear Necessities

There are so many ways in which Younger Nicole would not recognize Current Nicole, and one of those ways has to do with animal care; specifically, I am now a person who brushes her dog's teeth. Fourteen years with Barkley and it would have never … [Continue reading]

How Come No One Else’s Chair Is Doing This

In addition to thousands and thousands of song lyrics, my head is filled with quotes from various movies and television shows. Rarely these days do I watch a movie or television, or if I do, the plots or lines don't stick with me, so most of these … [Continue reading]

Nicole’s Favourite Things: The New House Edition

First of all, thank you to everyone who has reached out to me about the fires. It means so much to have so many people thinking of me and my family. We are all safe and the situation has improved vastly. Tuesday morning I was walking Rex and I … [Continue reading]

Playing The Fiddle

What a crazy weekend it has been. The wind really picked up on Friday and the wildfire spread very quickly. We are safe, and hopefully will continue that way, but it's quite terrifying to be in the midst of a state of emergency, with friends being … [Continue reading]

Five For Friday: The Faces, Friends, Fire, and Family Edition

Nobody Panic. It was so fun to read everyone's responses to the dishwashing, face washing, cookbook post. The very next day, the Nobody Panic podcast released an episode called How To Wash Your Face, which made me wonder - do they read this blog? No. … [Continue reading]

Same But Different

Very often, I think about all of us in the world, how we are all going about our lives in ways that are both the same and vastly different. Isn't it incredible, in this big small world, that we are all bustling along, working away, caring for … [Continue reading]

Acclimatizing

Are You Feeling Hot! Hot! Hot! Since I got here, it has been one beautiful day after another; summer here is absolutely gorgeous. If I had even one day like this in Calgary - warm and sunny, windless and without storms - I would be frantically … [Continue reading]