Gratitude and Grievance

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Yesterday my husband and I took a ten hour road trip to visit my parents. It was a gorgeous drive but I am a tiny bit tired; not, however, as tired as I was Saturday morning when I was woken up several times by a … [Continue reading]

Hairum Scarum

The thing about moving is that, once a person has moved, there is still so much paperwork to deal with, there are still so many decisions to make, and there is so very much to learn about the new environment. Moving across provinces, I am … [Continue reading]

Nicole’s Favourite Things: The Wake Me Up When September…Wait, September Is Ending Edition

What a month September has been; oddly enough, it simultaneously feels like it flew by, and that it was three months long. We packed so much in, and now my already tenuous sense of time is completely warped. Everything already feels like it happened … [Continue reading]

A New Chapter

I was thinking a lot about the last chapter in A Tree Grows In Brooklyn this week, when Francie goes back and looks at her neighbourhood, wanting to remember it just as it was. This week I was in Calgary again, for forty hours, and it was so … [Continue reading]

Dog and (Social) Butterfly

Although I have seen all of the Feuding Dog Park Men separately a few times, I have not seen them all together since The Incident, and I'm able to give them a nod and closed-lip Mona Lisa smile without being drawn into conversation with any of them. … [Continue reading]

A Grave Mistake

There are few graver mistakes in the acquisition of comestibles than visiting Costco on the Tuesday after a holiday Monday. It is a mistake I made this past week. How I could have possibly made such an error in judgement is beyond my comprehension … [Continue reading]

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]