experience

  • Explore

    I lived in the Netherlands for a year and visited the Anne Frank House 5 times. At the school I attended, some of the kids there told me they had never been. It seems that most of us don’t visit or explore attractions and sites ~ historic, cultural or otherwise,…

  • Holiday

    When we got up this morning, there was a layer of ash on the truck from the forest fires in the area. We are in Kelowna, the Okanagan area of BC, known for its hot weather, summer fruit, vineyards and hockey training. We are here for the latter. A week…

  • While Sleeping

    In the night, I woke and my eyes instantly snapped open. I had a thought and a realization simultaneously. The thought was that I had just come out of something: A dream? But that wasn’t it and I couldn’t remember a dream. The realization was a certain memory being the…

  • Value

    I was scrolling social media the other day and saw a post shared about ‘perceived value.’ The connection that shared this has her own crafty side business going. The example was about a deck. Asking for a quote of a deck build, getting a price back and then asking if…

  • McFadden

    My sister in law, Tania, had visited Ireland and Scotland a few times. One year she just decided she needed to venture further into the world and went off on a vacation by herself. She loved it so much, she kept going back. She and my husband had been told…