Saturday, May 10, 2014


Mother's Day

Was there ever a time that you just looked at your Mom and began to think about all the little things that she has done or taught to you?
Mother's are not just nurturers, but also teachers, mentors and friends. And in each of the roles she may have assumed with you, she has shown you the world....or a small piece of it.

My Mom taught me how to tie my shoe laces. For a left-handed child that did everything backwards, this felt like a huge and frustrating challenge when I was 4 yrs old. My Mom, thank goodness was also left-handed and by the end of an afternoon I had succeeded in this right of passage. My Mom showed great patience and even put coloured tape on the tips of the laces so I would not get confused.

She did many other things through my life, kissing scrapes and bandaging them, holding my hand and being there after a difficult surgery and being very honest with me, never sugar coating things. But she always ended this honesty with the phrase... "Everything will be alright, you'll see."

I learn as I got older that my Mom wasn't perfect and she made mistakes too. But even in this, I was still learning from her. That my convictions about myself and my life were just as important as the expectations she had of me. It pushed me to be confident in who and what I was, no matter the opinion.

We loved and we lived through heartache with each other, but in the end I don't think I would change a thing because she gave me the most important gift a mother can give....life.
If it was not for her, I would not be here writing to you.

So no matter what type of relationship you have with your mother, you should stop and reflect this day about what she did to get you through life, the good and the bad.
Oh and one last thing..... thank her for it!

Saturday, April 19, 2014

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Political Correctness

Does anyone ever wonder how the human race got to be so anally politically correct??? I DO!


I just read a short article about some newspaper in Nova Scotia publishing a political cartoon about the Harper Action Plan. The minister of defense said he was appalled and demanded an apology from the paper for publishing a swastika flag atop the peace tower.
Does anyone really care? Is anyone's life greatly changed by seeing this now? Does anyone lose sleep over this cartoon? Does it affect the economy? LET ME ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS FOR YOU......N O!!!
The minister of defense should be worried about the economy, joyriding in military planes. He should be worried that the 1000s of Action Plan signs posted across the country were made in the USA, why the price of gas is rediculous and why voters and the popularity of his Prime Minister is at an ALL TIME LOW.
If he has nothing better to worry about than a damned cartoon, what does that tell us about the priorities of the current government????

Oh ya, one more thing, how dare he dictate what my freedoms allow me to do....speak up!

Enough Said......
Quote of the day....

“Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read.

If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people.

I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.

To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended.”
Salman Rushdie