Celebrate Good Times, Come On!; 106 Weeks In

Let's celebrate! It's all right! Baby! I would like to tell you that I have that song in my head, but no, no. I have had 24K Magic in my head for four days now, but not the whole song. Just ONE line, over and over. Every so often I will burst … [Continue reading]

Nicole’s Favourite Things: The Isolation Chamber Edition

Full disclosure: I had a very different Favourite Things planned for this month, but I decided to write a little about my experience with The Plague instead. You'll just have to wait for Nicole's Favourite Things: The Daily Glow-Up Edition! I'm sure … [Continue reading]

Grumbles, Groceries, Good Things; One Hundred and Five Weeks In

WHY DO WE STILL CHANGE THE CLOCKS TWICE A YEAR I have been tracking my sleep on my Garmin watch since the New Year, and although I have no idea HOW my watch knows how much I sleep and how much of that sleep is deep or light or REM, it seems pretty … [Continue reading]

Two Years Of Pandemic At The Disco; One Hundred and Four Weeks In

I have been reading Keep Moving by Maggie Smith, and it's beautiful; I wish, though, that I had read it two years ago, at the beginning of the pandemic. It's perfect for Pandemic Life; for any kind of Life that has encountered loss, really. It was … [Continue reading]

Losing My Religion; One Hundred and Three Weeks In

A brief timeline of Covid-related happenings over the past six months, if you will indulge me: Fall: After "Open for Summer" which had all restrictions dropped, massive Covid outbreaks, ICUs are full, masks once again mandated, and vaccines … [Continue reading]

Marital Mismatches and Superpowers; One Hundred and Two Weeks In

It feels like I was JUST saying that February is tomorrow, and here we are, MARCH is tomorrow! February flew by; part of it was that it felt like Life Was Hectic, with wrestling tournaments and a new school semester and a five-day weekend thrown in … [Continue reading]

Nicole’s Favourite Things: The I Choo-Choo-Choose Me Edition

I am obsessed with the song i by Kendrick Lamar. Do you know it? When he heard me playing it and singing along, my son told me that i is on The Greatest Hip Hop Album Of All Time, which I didn't know, but which made me feel like this: Or maybe … [Continue reading]