This is an oldie, published in Moondance: Celebrating Creative Women in June of 2004. While we deal with the current recession, I can’t help but think of it again, and remember that we are often luckier than we realize.
Once in a while, when I’m feeling particularly blue and disillusioned with life, something happens to open my [...]
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PINK SOCKS AND A CHEESE BUN
Posted in PEOPLE, REFLECTIONS, tagged counting our blessings, poverty and the single woman, recession on March 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
DESPERATE MEASURES
Posted in PEOPLE, REFLECTIONS, tagged boomer bankruptcy, falling from grace, fighting ageism in the workplace, fighting creditors, humiliation of asking for help, survivng a recession on February 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today I did something that was very, very difficult. For a long while now, we’ve been dealing with financial insecurity, some of it our own fault, some of it the result of my husband’s connection to the automotive industry. Occasionally, we’d let slip a comment to indicate things weren’t good, but until now, pride, and [...]
THE STRENGTH OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT
Posted in PEOPLE, REFLECTIONS, tagged facing death, living each day, mindfulness, the human spirit on February 10, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Last week, our close friend passed away. For the better part of twenty years, Janet fought cancer and outlasted the dire predictions of the best oncologists. Despite her frail appearance, she seemed invincible. We regularly compared her to that bastion of commercial longevity, the Energizer Bunny.
What was it about her that kept her alive? Surely, she [...]
A FINE LINE BETWEEN US
Posted in PEOPLE, REFLECTIONS, tagged Ontario's health care system, the disenfranchised, welfare and the mentally ill on January 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I started this blog with the best of intentions. I enjoyed feeling accountable to my readers. So, what’s happened in the past six weeks?
LIFE.
If I continue on with the idea of life as a journey, the cheesiest of metaphors come to mind: I shifted into overdrive, blew a tire, drove off the shoulder, slammed into a tree. [...]
THE CZECHOSLOVAKIAN DOCTOR
Posted in PEOPLE, REFLECTIONS, tagged a modest Christmas, foreign doctors unable to work in Canada, poverty at Christmas, recession, unemployed on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am getting old. A sure sign is that in the midst of the current global economic crisis, I find myself dwelling on memories from our last recession. Details that I haven’t thought about in over twenty years now feel like yesterday. Somehow, those reflections act as a comfort, a testament to our strength. If we overcame obstacles [...]
AN UNEXPECTED KINDNESS
Posted in PEOPLE, REFLECTIONS, tagged pay it forward, the kindness of strangers, unexpected gestures of kindness on November 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Last year, my husband began the long processs of converting our sixteen by thirty-two foot inground pool into a pond. He’s an ambitious, highly creative type, and it was one of three or four projects he had on the go at the time. It turned out to be a challenge in ways we never anticipated.
He [...]
