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As Valentine’s Day Approaches…

I am the most cynical romantic that you will ever meet. I love sappy songs and sappy poetry and sappy movies. I can watch the movie Sweet Home Alabama with the volume off and speak every line! Sleepless in Seattle, too. My favourite childhood movie was Anne of Green Gables and that moment where AnneContinue reading “As Valentine’s Day Approaches…”

Thank You For Being A Friend

Like everyone else in the world, I recently mourned the loss of the iconic Betty White. She was talented. She was funny. She was a little bit ‘bad’ as we like to say in our family. I remember reading something she’d said, and of course I’m paraphrasing, but she talked about how she was soContinue reading “Thank You For Being A Friend”

Hello to Nova Scotia!

It’s been a bit since I’ve posted anything and I do apologize for that delay. It is my intention to post something at least weekly. I have written and rewritten a post called “Christmas in July” about a hundred times and I still don’t have the heart to post it. It’s funny cause I amContinue reading “Hello to Nova Scotia!”

A Different Kind of Honeymoon

After my family and friends left the island following our wedding, Joan and I set out on what I have called, “a different kind of honeymoon”! We were already in one of the most beautiful locations on this earth, how could we beat it? We didn’t even attempt to. Instead, we used this time toContinue reading “A Different Kind of Honeymoon”

If I could turn back time…

On June 14, 2009, less than two months after my original trip to the Dominican Republic, I returned to the island with my friend Flora. You hear people say that the islands called to them, but I didn’t believe that was possible until the cries were deafening. I had given my head the stern lecture,Continue reading “If I could turn back time…”