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  The Miracle of Letting Go

  I can’t  plan this. Some academics spend eons planning, researching, writing and editing their material. Forgive me my typ-os (typos?), my dangling participles, my fragments. This Read More »

• Day (#): A Miracle Never Ends

  My good friend, Dom, provided the title for this evening. And the inspiration.  His message: My  journey has just begun. His reason: Miracles never end. Nothing Read More »

• Preamble to Day 30…

    Where I am right now: Undoctored. Philosophy? Never.   I’m right here, I am Looking at you Looking at me No apology That’s who I Read More »

• Day 29: “Just a Little Trim, Darling!”

  I’ve heard that one before!  Do you remember sitting in the chair, your little five-year old legs dangling helplessly over the edge, barely able to see Read More »

• Day 28: Grace Gave Me Goosebumps

  My friend Stacey’s comment today about Day 27  giving her “goosebumps” created a moment of Grace for both of us. I felt them too!  Thank you, Read More »

• Day 27: What is a Miracle? II

  I am nearing the completion of my 30-day trek, and thought it would be wise to actually address the purpose of this blog, this process, this Read More »

• Day 26: Confidence

  Confidence. Where does that come from? How does one situation bring out the “worst” in us, and another the “best”?  How does something which seemed impossible Read More »

• Day 25: Fun!

  FUN! I was going to write about Why I am Here, Part II, but again, life gets in the way! And that, my dear, is the Read More »

• Day 24: Resistance Training

  Hello all. I thought I would write about Why I am Here, Part II, but maybe that will have to wait. I have some resistance training Read More »

• Day 23: Good Enough for Me!

  Yes, it’s Wednesday and I haven’t written in 2 days. After publishing my “Daily Commitment Contract” the other day I set out to avoid everything on Read More »

• Day 22: The Daily Commitment Contract

  OK, so here’s where “the rubber meets the road”. A few weeks ago, I wrote about my Commitment. It was a real declaration. But how much Read More »

• Day 21: The Miracle is You

  I mean that literally. The Miracle is You. I’m not being generic or metaphoric or universal in any way. For the first time, I really get Read More »

• Day 20: “Love Liberates”

  I listened to Maya Angelou speaking on “Oprah’s Master Class” tonight.  “Love liberates,” she said.  What is a good teacher/friend/mother/lover? The one who loves enough to Read More »

• Day 19: Gratitude, My Tiny Listless Friend

  This is what came to me while silencing the creeping need to fret away the time…  a moment of grace in a busy day. GRATITUDE I Read More »

• Day 18: Intimidated

  Today I feel intimidated. I am afraid to write this post!  I am embarrassed that someone will read it, which they probably will! So I told my Read More »

• Day 17: Why I am Here, Part I

  This is a bold statement, I realize. I was going to begin with a question: “Why am I here?” But perhaps I have learned something already. Read More »

• Day 16: How Far is the Sky?

  I don’t know... that’s what’s so exciting about it. I don’t know where the Eagle flies, or how high or how far. I just know, I Read More »

• Day 15: Haley Sings to the Mountaintops

  Tonight one of my guilty pleasures was watching Shania Twain recover her voice in her show, “Why Not? with Shania Twain” on OWN.  It reminded me Read More »

• Day 14: I Belong!

  This morning I went to a yoga class I hadn’t been to in a while. That’s me, slipping in and out of things – alarming! Seriously, Read More »

• Day 13: Commitment

  I write in order to learn. I am writing this because I need to be. Because I want to be. If I don’t write, I am Read More »

• Day 12: The Climb

  1 . “Jump off the high dive, woman.” She looks at him. No. Yes. No. “OK, have it your way.” He picks her up and throws Read More »

• Day 11: We All Get Scared

  I have to write this in honour of my daughter.  I didn’t mean to, I was going to write about “Now”, but I will save that Read More »

• Day 10: Anxiety and The Chorus of Dreams (Sing!)

  I’m not sure what to call it:  this inexplicable feeling of unease, at times wafting through me unawares. I am going about my business, preparing for Read More »

• Day 9: The Pleasant Ever-After

  I’m not sure why, but I’m so happy lately. A year ago I was suffering from a recurring case of depression, or what one expert called Read More »

• Day 8: Keeper of the Flame

  I am back from Kingston, home of my birth, and feeling quite reflective on what I found there…  Not only did I find my grandmother in Read More »

• Day 7: Waiting

  I thought I would be writing from Kingston today, the City of My Birth (more on that later). But I am still here, waiting for  my Read More »

• Day 6: New

  There are some things I am still afraid of. Some people think being an actress makes me immune – instant courage. Not so. I admit I Read More »

• Day 5: One Woman’s Weed…

  Springtime Canada. We have been encrusted by snow and trampled by rain for two long seasons, and now Summer is upon us. Out of our weary Read More »

• Day 4: Walk On

  It is Day 4. Even though it is really like, Day 18 since I last wrote. I swallow my embarrassment, and do it again. Because I Read More »

• Day 3: I’ve Been A Jerk

  Today I do not feeling like writing. I feel like a jerk. And when I feel  like a jerk, the last thing I feel like doing Read More »