Within five minutes, we bonded over our love of animals. It turned out that my new client, Yvonne, had loved and kept birds, cats, dogs and hamsters at various points in her life. She was loving and responsible, giving her pets the best care possible until they drew their last breath. My kind of person. Yvonne wasn’t there to chat…
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 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…
