As I pulled into the parking lot this morning to pick up Hudson from pre-school, I could see him jumping with excitement on the other side of the window.  He was smiling as big as the sun and could hardly wait to tell me his news.  Apparently, their butterflies had hatched.  The caterpillars they had […]

Dear Avery, I went on a school trip once to a planetarium.  I was about twelve years old at the time.  I remember lying on my back on a carpeted floor and staring up into a giant dome filled with tiny little dots.  The lights went out and one star at a time, the darkness […]

There’s just something about it. Something lovely. Something peaceful. Something that makes my heart grow three sizes bigger at the very thought of it. It’s the way the air smells when I first wake up in the morning.  It’s the way the light looks just a little bit different.  A little bit softer.  It’s the […]

I knew this girl once who just didn’t show up for work one day. Her office was right down the hall from me, and she went home one evening, on a seemingly normal day…and just didn’t come back to work the next morning. A couple of months later, I saw her again in that same […]

I tend to dream.  A lot. I dream in colour and though not always – I tend to dream in English. I dream about people that I see all the time and people that I’ve only ever passed on the street. I dream vividly and I dream emotionally. But what I really love are the […]

I was at Starbucks a couple of weeks ago when this lovely older lady – waiting behind me in line – began to reminisce about all of her parenting days gone by.  She looked at me…she looked at my kids…then she stared me straight in the face and said “make sure you love every precious […]