WriteOut of Her Mind

It’s finally here, my favourite event of summer: Riverfest Elora.

Without question, this has been one of my best summers in recent memory and I haven’t even had my week of vacation yet (three weeks and counting).

We’re just days away from the Carpenter’s birthday and I’ve been thinking of creative gifts for him because, in an unprecedented move, this year my husband outdid himself on my birthday.

There are two important lessons I’ve learned about friendship.

My perfect weekend requires culture, sports, friend time, family time, and the always valuable…

She crossed the stage with a posture and pace that said everything I needed to know, sitting near…

Sometimes you just have to make a wish and send it out with zero expectations of it coming true.…

Oh Canada, you beauty, you. What a spectacular country you’ve become. You don’t look a day over…

This may come as a surprise to you, but it turns out I’m not cut out for manual labour. I was not…

There are dad jokes, dad quotes, dad rules and in our house, there are dad shoes. It’s a running…

It cannot be easy to be my child. I am not the mother that many of my amazing mom friends are; the…

Surely this is a divine sign that my rock ’n’ roll dreams are coming true. The Rolling Stones…

Everyone has bad days.  When I vent to the Carpenter about life’s challenges, it is a total…

The term earworm describes a catchy song or tune that runs continually through a person’s mind. …

A note for my children: please don’t buy me a gift on Mother’s Day. Unless you can have the…