When my partner and I handed off our 10-year-old grandson to his father late Saturday afternoon, we collapsed onto our couch and sat, entirely still and silent, for quite some time, utterly exhausted by our week of adventures with him. Continue reading Family vacations→

A three-week inquest, a major house renovation that took much longer than we had anticipated and left us begging around town for showers for several weeks, and a quick trip to Halifax for the Mass Casualty Commission hearings might have Continue reading Vacation time!→

After the intensity of the inquest, a couple of weeks of writing about it, catching up on work I abandoned while I was in Pembroke and moving around while our house was under renovation, I have found myself — for Continue reading Brain break→

My partner and I have spent a lot of time recently thinking about whether to stay in the house we have lived in for the past 11 years or sell it and move on to something different. There’s a lot Continue reading Grand designs→