There Was That One Time At Mom 2.0…

I love telling stories in the vein of American Pie. You know the way Michelle starts to tell Jim about her one time at band camp and what she does with the flute. It’s a really corny thing that I do. So on that note (no, no flutes are involved in this story), if you…

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I Am Miss M and Mr. Z’s Mom

If you had asked me 10 years ago who I was, I would have had an answer for you. I was the girl who jumped out of airplanes, camped across Southern Africa, partied all night, danced until the sun came up and went to work mere hours later only to do it all over again…

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Pros and Cons Overview of All-Inclusive Vacations

We all love to getaway… Whether it be to escape the rat race of work, hide from relationships (er…. or whatever), Canadians take a lot of overnight abroad trips. According to Statistics Canada in 2016, Mexico, Cuba, Barbados, Dominican Republic (note – these are countries in the Caribbean), were in the top 15 countries that…

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I Will Purge More And Be Free

Not too long ago, I found myself in a heavy and dark place… A funk of situational proportions and it consumed my everything. I found I couldn’t focus on work, my mind was jumping everywhere with no complete thoughts, I was snapping at my children, I could barely muscle the energy to wear anything other than “active wear” and…

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Holy Fuego!

One of the pillars of my life is that I don’t really have a bucket list. I try to live everyday to its fullest and “just do it”. I do have a list of things I want to do, but it’s not a bucket list per se, that’s a thought for another day. As a…

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38 TRUTHS I’VE LEARNED IN 38 YEARS – #3 Sleep

Sleep is not a luxury, sleep is a necessity. In my 38 years of things I am learning about life to be true, my ideas about sleep in the past, have been so very wrong. I always said sleep was disposable. Sleep is for those who are retired and dead. There’s no time for sleep…

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