2023 Girl Names
Time for the girls! Well, it’s Alberta. And what do we do in Alberta? We add -LYN to anything we want. Austlyn Sweetlyn Summerlynn Mazelynn Icelynn Maklyn Riverlyn Vesper-Lynn Stetlyn-Rose … even if it...
Author: Colette Rhodes
2023 Boy Names
Let’s get the ✨horrible debuts✨ over with! (Names used for the first time in Alberta. Names we got this far without having. And we could have kept going!) — Horrible Debuts Acecius Akston Auxter...
The Prime Time of Your Life
Now, live Well, I can’t not remark upon this year. There won’t be any shortage of commentary in the years to come but 2020 was different for everyone even though the pandemic happened to...
It’s a Secret Place
that our souls alone are safe. A place where we can stay, and watch the world go by, and we’ll stand alone in time Owen had to go back to the hospital after he’d...
The World Was On Fire
And no one could save me but you Today I have been writing in this blog for twenty years. I was always a journaler but it was May 2nd, 2000, at the end of...
Waste My Youth Chasing Kites
These days, the word “perfectionist” is negative. Perhaps it’s because I think of myself as a perfectionist that I really notice it everywhere— the unrelenting plea of well-meaning society to let go of perfectionism. While...
Too Many Things Held Precious
Too many things held dear. “There has to be more” on one hand, “Keep your head above water” on the other. Surprise, another post about motherhood. Even when I try to write about something...
The List Goes on Forever
of all the ways I could be better in my mind As if I could earn God’s favour, given time Back when I was still agonizing over figuring out my Enneagram type, I thought...
I Lost My Balance
when I needed it most This blurry photograph is proof— Of what I’m not sure but it feels like truth Last month our realtor invited us to a “family fun at the zoo” evening...
Is That Courage or Faith
to show up every day To trust that there will be light after the darkest of nights Say what you want about the Enneagram but you have to love it if only as a...
