Re-Imagining Adulting
Charlene Norman
October 10, 2023
Have you ever thought about Adulting outside of the world of lame jokes? Seriously, what are the most valuable skills we need as adults, and
Forty at Forty
Charlene Norman
September 25, 2023
Today’s post is a bit longer than usual and is not even mine! One of my social media buddies broadcast that his newly turned 40-year-old
What does that Mean?
Charlene Norman
September 18, 2023
Too many decades ago, there was a tired old joke about how gals viewed the colour pink as the noun following many kinds of adjectives–
Calling George Carlin!
Charlene Norman
August 28, 2023
Where is George Carlin? Strange topic, right? I introduced a friend of mine a month ago to George Carlin. Interviewed a guest for Season Two,
About Those Fur Critters
Charlene Norman
July 31, 2023
A dear friend has been staying with us for the last three months. It’s been an intensive and stress-free place for her business to re-find
A Monarch, a Thought and a Call for Joy
Charlene Norman
July 24, 2023
A surprise visitor joined us for dinner one night this past week. The visitor was a Monarch Butterfly! You might remember early last summer, the Monarch
The Art of Gratitude
Charlene Norman
June 19, 2023
Have you noticed the massive cacophony about gratitude these days? It’s tough to figure out what’s real, fake and works, isn’t it? I’d like to
Observations of an Executrix
Charlene Norman
May 29, 2023
My eldest brother passed away a few weeks ago. He joins my two other brothers and parents and leaves me as ‘the last one standing.’
Some Stuff about Stress
Charlene Norman
May 22, 2023
Stress — the second part of a promised two-part piece. Last week we talked about autoimmune diseases and gluten-free diets. The other day, I stumbled
We Are A Plague of Locusts
Charlene Norman
April 24, 2023
In 2019 a city councillor named Gala Pin expressed her disapproval of cruise ship tourism: “It’s a plague of locusts [type of] tourism; they devour