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Hey spring, thanks for showing up. You鈥檙e right on time. I have been anticipating your arrival…

My apologies to the lab technician at LifeLabs who will now have to process the specimen collection…

I鈥檓 not typically a jealous woman. I have no reason to be.聽

She leapt out in front of my moving car as if distracted, unaware of my headlights or the path she鈥檇 wandered into. She just appeared out of nowhere and in doing so, knocked me clean out of the noise of my day.聽

ERIN 鈥� It was a horse pull competition at a fall fair that inspired independent filmmaker Cliff Caines to embark on a three-year journey to create the award-winning documentary Workhorse.

I couldn鈥檛 find my Bluetooth speaker anywhere. It must still be packed in a box from the recent move of the contents of our home from our neighbourhood in town to our move to the country on the outskirts of the same town.聽

In the spirit of Valentine鈥檚 Day, I鈥檇 like to share a teachable moment with you of what not to do to your beloved if you are attempting to inspire a spark of passion between you. Today鈥檚 lesson is brought to you by the letters C, for the Carpenter, and W, for 鈥淲hat the?鈥� 鈥淲hy?鈥� and 鈥淲eirdo.鈥�

I heard him before I saw him.聽 He had a raspy barking cough, as if someone told him a good joke…

I am by no means a survivalist, (I can barely survive learning we鈥檙e out of chips), but when there is a snowstorm in the forecast, my husband, the Carpenter, launches into emergency preparedness mode.聽

I wish I looked better in a toque.聽

As it has probably a thousand times in my marriage to the Carpenter, our morning began with this question; 鈥淎re you okay if I write about this?鈥澛�

Insomnia made me delusional. That explains it. Longing for sleep, I passed time contemplating cruel punishments to silence my snoring spouse.聽

It struck me, while out walking my dog on the last morning of my Christmas holidays, that the next day, I would be heading back to work, and as such, I was going to need pants.聽