Just a thought… Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this hour. [Walt Whitman] Typing this as I sit at the side of a neighbourhood diamond in Nepean near Ottawa…the music’s playing, the coffee in my traveller mug is cooling in the gentle noonday air, and kids are out having
Erin’s Journals
Monday, May 25, 2026
Just a thought… Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. [Ovid] Well, that was quite a weekend. Apart watching the Jays and Habs, deer and fawns, Rob and I did one of those things that can really test a relationship. We’ve had them before: the earliest I can recall was
Monday, May 18, 2026
Just a thought… You can take away a man’s show; you can’t take away a man’s voice. [David Letterman] Welcome to a new week, and a holiday if you’re lucky enough to have it off today. An event to come in a few days has had me reflecting a lot on my own life, and
Monday, May 11, 2026
Hello! Last week if you read my journal here, you may remember my message to myself was “enough.” So, with that in my mind and heart today, I will pass on writing a blog and invite you back here next week. (Of course, Lisa Brandt and I will have a new episode of our Gracefully
Monday, May 4, 2026
Just a thought… The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. [Rabindranath Tagore] I’m spending these days in the cocoon of our island cabin in the woods as we head into the heart-heaviest week of my year – Mother’s Day this Sunday and then the 11th anniversary of Lauren’s passing the next