We took a helicopter ride up to the glacier in Alaska. We swooped and soared and investigated for over an hour and then landed on a glacier field. Our fabulously gorgeous pilot, Mike, guided us through the turquoise crevasses-warning us that the snow fields are deceiving and often only lightly cover … [Read more...]
bucket list
They say that there are only two things that we cannot change- how we are born and how we die. Everything else we are said to have control over although few exercise that power or feel they truly have it. Victims abound, helplessness is fortified even encouraged and many feel someone far … [Read more...]
the bumps
We had taken a 2 hour hike along the Chilkhoot trail in Skagway, Alaska, then climbed into a raft to float down the Tyrie River. Our guide warned us that if we hit any large protrusion at high speed the raft would fold and we could end up in the 36 F water. He would scream "bump" if this happened so … [Read more...]
Que de la mer
We are day 1 at sea on a cruise ship heading for Alaska from Vancouver. Last night I slept with the balcony door wide open and my eyes as well. There is a pervasive feeling that you don't want to miss anything when you are in a faraway place. Sleep is for the spoiled. I watched as the … [Read more...]
way too much fun and it rhymes with tree
Let's face it - we spend most of our days bleeding cash for things that don't excite. Braces for kids, new roof, weeping tile ( weeping hysterically, actually), orthotics, textbooks, trapping racoons that weren't invited to the picnic and insurance just in case. So when an offer comes along to … [Read more...]
Lucy or Ricky?
According to a book I just read, we have two choices in our partnerships - we can either be Lucy or Ricky. Think the TV couple in I Love Lucy.Ricky is fairly serious, in charge and responsible. He is an adult.Lucy on the other hand, takes cars for a ride before she learns to drive, … [Read more...]
you are so sensitive
This was said to me so many times when I was a kid an outsider may have thought it was my given name.While sensitivity can be hard thing to accept in yourself, it can also be a gift. On one hand you share your tears with people who don't deserve them, feel the world's pain too much, and often … [Read more...]
tennis anyone?
They played tennis competitively and extremely well for years. Vancouver Lawn had very few players at that level. It is a sport that is both social and romantic, short skirts, ponytails swinging and much talk of "love". And let's not forget the fabulous effect that all that stopping and starting has … [Read more...]
all the world’s a stage
About 20 years ago I was at a cocktail party telling a friend that I had had the 'exam dream'. At the time I did not know it was universal. I had had the dream where I am at University and I am almost finished the year when a piece of paper slips out of a binder. It is my course schedule from that … [Read more...]
buffalo soldier
Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charge in the exact direction of it. Needless to say the buffalo gets through it quicker.This is the best analogy I know for facing the hardest things first. There are many times when running in the other direction is so appealing and probably an … [Read more...]
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