I think a lot of the time, we just forget. We forget that a wedding isn’t just two people starting out a new life together.  It isn’t just different families suddenly intertwining as one.  It isn’t just a day to mark the future that lies ahead. A wedding isn’t just the beginning of a story…it’s […]

This month, my husband and I will celebrate our 12th wedding anniversary.  And when I think back to the various things that we’ve gone through, I believe that nothing has changed us more as individuals or as a couple then the birth of our children.  Nothing shaped us…tested us…and pushed us more than becoming parents.  […]

Throughout all of history, water has brought us together. We build cities along its coasts so we can be tied to one another.  We use it’s passages to link us in ways that nothing else can.  And we use its direction to carry us home. Water brings people together. And it was along the shores […]

A few months ago, I was sitting in a room amid downtown Tacoma, Washington.  A group of absolutely amazing women sat in rows on wooden fold out chairs.  With all of their eyes looking intently upon me…I uttered four words that surprised even myself… “Art saved my life” I can remember being taken aback as […]

It was report card day in our house yesterday! Report cards used to make me so anxious as a kid.  But not these guys!  The two of them came leaping off the school bus with their brown envelopes in hand.  The four of us curled up on our couch together with wild anticipation while the […]

My kids and I have a favourite place we go to every summer; a beach along the Ottawa River.  For ten weeks out of the year, the back of our car is full of beach toys, piles of sand and the smell of damp bathing suits.  We usually head out in the mornings – sometime […]