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My mom is one of twelve children. French Canadian Catholic. All of her brothers and sisters are quite close in age, and all remained fairly geographically close. I grew up with a giant tangle of cousins and other relations at each major holiday, which was always a huge celebration filled [...]

I think, actually I'm pretty positive, that it was almost exactly one year ago that I ended a four year relationship. I stayed at our home for a couple of weeks, which is completely inadvisable, and shortly thereafter, which is EXACTLY one year ago today, I moved out. I left [...]

Tonight I am cooking a romantic dinner for two that has absolutely nothing to do with my dog.It's not just dinner. It's a romantic dinner. For two.It has been approximately one year and two months since I last did that. In the meanwhile, I've cooked romantic dinners for friends, romantic [...]

I tend to write more when I'm angsty or blue or distressed. That is most certainly not the case this last week. It might have a lot to do with the seasonal shift. It might have a lot to do with something else. It might have a lot to do [...]

When the light is pure and clear, and the sky an unmatched blue,I walk in silent woods, I squish softly over the gently yielding earth,The newly-supple earth made wet and heady from the thaw.I breathe, slowly, tentatively. That ever-present hand rests gently against my chest,(to steady me? to ready me? [...]

I am a bloated, anxious, pre-menstrual mess right now, and as luck would have it, I have a date tonight.So what's a girl to do?After three outfit changes, I found something that's cute, in a flattering colour, that doesn't make me feel like a street vendor sausage ready to burst [...]