Forever In Mom Genes

Last night I stood in front of our full-length mirror and took a hard look at myself. “You know,” I said to my husband, “I see an old woman. My face is wrinkling, my body is succumbing to the effects of gravity, my hair is greying and I have age spots...

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I'm forty-four not eighty-four so why do I feel like I should be joining a senior centre and doing needlepoint? Being diagnosed with a bunion has the power to age you faster than 48 consecutive hours in a tanning bed.
I know there are worse things. Much worse things. But this one thing makes me cringe. And wince! A bunion can be painful—like wake you up from a sound sleep, achy, throbby kind of painful....

This is what I do upon occasion whilst I'm supposed to be working or cleaning my house or grocery shopping or god forbid, exercising. I visit the countless random thoughts in my head and jot them down. I also, upon occasion, use the word whilst.
1. Recently I wrote about how we all eventually fall prey to the dreaded mom cut. So what do I go and do anyway? I get clipped despite my own warning. I was going for more 'Julianne Hough' than mom cut. Preeeeeeetty sure I nailed it. Wait, why are you...

When I moved to Ontario from B.C. in 1987, I left my best friend behind. In body that is, but not in spirit. We're still best friends ALL these MANY (I can't even do the math) years later. Every summer Tiff would fly out East and we'd always hit Wonderland...