It was a good day today. No heart-shaped cards or flowers or chocolate-covered cherries in candy boxes. No candlelit dinners or romantic music playing in the background. It was perfect.
I don’t know about you, but I do not care for the hype that the commercialization of occasions such as Valentine’s day invites. [...]
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No Flowers Please
Posted in Family, Friendship, Life, Marriage, tagged Children, friends, husband, love on February 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Half a World Away
Posted in Friendship, Life on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of days ago, I got a long and newsy email — the kind I like, actually — from Laureen, a good friend whom I’ve known since we were eleven years old. We were classmates in Grade 6, wherein we discovered a shared love of reading romance novels and potatoes (long story….) and [...]