What’s the Bottom Line?
TRIGGER WARNING! I’m going to talk about the importance of good gut health and keeping an eye on your poo. Did you know there’s an app you can download to your phone that will track your bowel habits? It’s called PLOP. (I couldn’t believe it either!) While, this may be considered a gross topic to […]
Which Season Are You?
When I lived in California for ten years, I became accustomed to the balmy 68-72-degree Fahrenheit climate all year round. Rarely did it get cold enough that I had to swap out my favourite blue and yellow flip flops, for my fuzzy orange slippers. In fact, I wore flip flops so often that I had […]
What Happens in Amsterdam…
Trigger Warning – This blog discusses choking which may be triggering for some people who have had a bad experience around this topic. Amsterdam is a city of bikes and bridges, a myriad of dykes and damns, a collection of barges and cheeses, a cacophony of ‘coffee shops’ (and we all know what really happens […]
Where in the World?
This is the question of the hour in my life right now. I’ve been absent from blogging for almost two months. Life is not always smooth like my favourite peanut butter. It’s the challenges thrown at us, that build us up and make us stronger. If you’re a regular reader of my blog, you’ll know […]
Happy New Year!
It’s 2023 and I, like most of you, have big plans for this year. I’m also ready to embrace absolutely anything unexpected that comes my way! I had no idea last October that I’d be having surgery on my neck a month later, so who knows WHAT will come up this year! Today marks 7 […]
Seasons Greetings to All!
It’s going to be a Covid Christmas for me… Ah sure, isn’t that a fine excuse to take it easy and keep on writing? My memoir, in its first absolute shitty draft, is ready for editing. I read somewhere that we should celebrate the vomit version. It is the very evidence we have of the […]
Surgery by Google Translate, Part Three
Click on the following links to read Part One and Part Two. PART THREE – Hold Your Horses The first bag of pain medication did nothing. I mumbled and groaned about it in my drowsy state. Another bag was attached and released at high speed. I could see it dripping quickly, anticipating it would give […]
Surgery by Google Translate, Part Two
I wasn’t surprised to be awoken before the craic of dawn with a pleasant ‘Dobry Rano’ (Good morning) and then a full harangue of Czech. ‘Twas another pleasant matron who arrived with the blood pressure machine. She nodded towards my phone which I placed in front of her and she spoke slowly. Here’s what was […]
Surgery by Google Translate, Part One
I’m delighted to share this little adventure with my readers. It’s a three-part series, so brace yourselves! As always, thanks for reading, and please do subscribe. You’ll get a little jingle in your box when new posts are published. Living in Prague for the past two years definitely has its perks. I am a registered […]
To blog, or not to blog…
That has been the question of the month for me. As I enter my second year as a ‘writer’, it’s been interesting to watch myself – the writer in me – unfold. It’s not as if I stand in front of the mirror each morning and say ‘ah look at you, you big writer!’. I […]