The Hunger Games & God

April 9, 2012

Little bit of a cheater post today. I just now finished The Hunger Games trilogy and was actually sobbing through the last few pages. I do it all the time with good books. It’s one part “don’t want it to …

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Everyone is Fighting a Battle

April 7, 2012

Several years ago I shared a story on this blog about having a miscarriage. While it was definitely a sad time, I used it as a catalyst to change my life. I realized I’d been hanging on to this sad …

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5 Rules for a Facebook Fight

April 5, 2012

Well there’s ten minutes of my life I won’t get back.

Randomly throughout the day I’ve been having a Facebook discussion with someone I don’t know, of course, on a friend’s comment. You know how it goes… you don’t really …

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I am a Little Warrior

March 29, 2012

Here in Canada recently there was a lot of hoopla in the news about Graham James. He was a hockey coach in the 70s and 80s who ritually abused boy and was recently sentenced to two years in jail …

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Because I Don’t Make Dinner on the Toilet

March 25, 2012

There’s plenty of talk in the news, at schools, in our own homes about getting healthy, getting healthy and staying healthy. Because I’m an EMT, I see a lot of people who aren’t all that healthy. Some for reasons beyond …

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Gramma’s Eulogy

March 25, 2012

Thank you all for gathering here to remember the woman we knew as Grandma. Perhaps you knew her as mom or Auntie Wyn, or maybe you knew her full name, Barbara Winnifred Alberta Sparling. Or, maybe if you lived in …

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Flying Away

March 18, 2012

This morning, Barbara Winnifred Alberta Sparling flew away.

Or, Wyn, to some. Or Granny or Grandma, to me.

It has been difficult to see the end coming for so long. A part of you wants to hope that you’re wrong. …

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Also vs But

March 16, 2012

I’m battling a case of the Alsos vs the Buts.

My grandmother is sick and in the hospital and my EMT brain knows too much now so I struggle to see her in this state without the desire to distance …

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