These are a few of my favourite things: Music. (Most) animals. Peppermint tea. The smell of rain. My brother’s AWESOME hand-made chocolate ice cream. What are yours? And if people can have favourite things, can spirits, too? * * * Friday evening, several years ago. I was 13, tagging along with my parents as we shopped at the mall. We were…
“I just want to ask about my love life,” said Janelle. Oh okay, I thought. Probably wants to know how to attract a soul mate into her life, or whether her current partner was The One. Questions we all ask at some point. The cards told a different story. Three men: the Emperor. The King of Cups. The King of…
“I don’t know what it is about me and men.” I didn’t know either. The young woman beside me was smart, gorgeous, and charmingly vivacious. Seated next to each other by chance at a McDonald’s, we’d struck up a conversation that led to the topic of many lengthy female discussions: oh, MEN! “I’ve been with many great guys,” she admitted….
I didn’t like the dress I was wearing. A little black dress, chic and comfy. Nah, the dress wasn’t the problem. The problem was that I was wearing it again… to another funeral. Eve was a close family friend. She was a beautiful free spirit and a fighter, beating cancer twice but finally, slowly, succumbing to another illness. In the…
