World Childless Week 2026 is coming in September -- the 10th annual!  Every year, WCW is built around submissions from childless people ar...

25 years ago today (!), while licking the wounds (physical, mental, emotional) inflicted by five-ish years of trying and failing to conceive...

Anyone else feeling overwhelmed by the sudden onslaught of prom, graduation and last day of school photos on social media this week??  (In ...

My mother loved chocolate. You could say she was an addict. There was always chocolate around our house when I was growing up.  Most of all,...

If you don't know who  Mr. Dressup  is... you obviously did not grow up in Canada in the latter half of the 20th century, lol.  If you d...

Little Great-Niece's 3rd birthday party was this past weekend. We hadn't seen any of the family in a full month, so it was great to ...

(Not really a "microblog" post...!)  It's been two months now since  my mom died suddenly on New Year's Day  -- and I'...

If you had told me, 27 years ago this month (and still reeling from heartbreak of pregnancy loss), that 27 years later I would find myself i...

Where I grew up, you were considered an adult at age 18, able to drink, vote and enlist in the armed forces without parental permission, amo...

I know I had a few ideas in mind for a #MM post this week, but they have all completely left my head.  So I will just say that we spent the ...

"I had an accident," my 86-year-old father sheepishly confessed over the phone on Sunday afternoon. (!!!)  VERY thankfully!! he...

Saturday was dh's cousin's son's wedding -- which I've mentioned in several previous anticipatory posts in recent months/wee...

(NOT a microblog post, lol.)   Yesterday was our 40th (!!) wedding anniversary.  (How did that happen??)  Despite the significance of 40 yea...

I was scanning today's bargains on the Kobo (e-reading) website, and my eye caught the title of one of the books listed.   It was titled...

I was looking at my datebook recently, and realized, with a bit of a shock, that today (May 9th) marks 50 (!!) years since my paternal grand...

It's election day here in Canada!  Tonight's the night we find out who will form the next federal government, and who our new prime ...