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You Have to Walk Before You Can Run
Once upon a time, long long ago in a land far away (actually in a lounge in a Saskatoon hotel), three smart, sassy sisters made a bold, life-altering decision. It is a story of epic proportion.
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Try A Little Kindness
When we chose kindness as our word of the month for November, I remember thinking there would be lots to write about and the words would flow easily. After all, we Sisters are kind people and were raised by one of the kindest people ever – our mom Betty. But when it came time to sit down and start formulating what I was going to write, I kept getting stuck. What’s the Plan Stan? I love the concept of random acts of kindness and always feel incredibly uplifted when I am able to perform one. So why was I struggling so much to write about it? What I figured out…
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Have You Tried Turning It Off and On?
Unlike our kids and grandkids, the Sisterhood can occasionally be overwhelmed by today’s technology. After all, we grew up with land line phones, black and white televisions and cameras that required film and a few days processing before the eagerly awaited photos were ready for pickup. While we do consider ourselves reasonably “technologically adept,” we occasionally (our kids might use the word often…) need just a teensy bit of help figuring things out. And, as Middle Sis’ adventures below illustrate, we sometimes have difficulty discerning exactly when we need that help. If I Had A Hammer Recently my husband started having trouble with his phone – emails going missing, texts…
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Have You Met Your Match?
There are many things in this life that come in pairs: socks, shoes, and gloves just to mention a few, and of course twins. There are even different kinds of twins. We have maternal, fraternal, and identical. There is however one group of twins that is often overlooked, and that is the Doppelganger. Read on..
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Edison, Eat Your Heart Out.
As we all know Thomas invented the light bulb, and various other items that we still use today. In our previous post, When Your Focus is Out of Focus, I shared my tendency to zone out and lose myself in distracting thoughts. Well, I'm pleased to inform you that when my mind starts to wander, I often channel Thomas Edison, so I have a few inventions of my own that I would like to share with you. I just hope they don't go the way of things like the remote control headband, the butter stick, (this is like chap stick but it is butter instead), and the phone fingers. These…
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When Your Focus Is Out of Focus
Big, Middle and Little Sis all wear glasses and so regularly have their visual focus checked and corrected as need be. But that is not what we had in mind to talk about when we chose “focus” as our word of the month for October. Rather we were thinking about where we choose to spend our time and attention day to day and how to make sure we’re clearly focused on the right things. Would You Repeat That Please? By Little Sis I love to sleep, and you would think that after a long at day work, sleeping would be a welcome relief. I don’t consider myself an insomniac, but…
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Well That Was Fun!
Everyday life offers a myriad of potential challenges. It also offers a myriad of opportunities for humor and laughter. The Sisterhood can speak to both with a measure of authority. We have after all, a combined 195 years of experience on this earth. Collectively, we prefer to dwell on the funny side of life (hence the above picture of Little Sis laughing as she wrote her contribution to this post.) I mean really, if you can’t laugh at yourself, life must be very dull indeed. So it is with great humility and perhaps a splash of laughter, we offer our thoughts on what we refer to as “Our Most Embarrassing…
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Happy Birthday Mom
Yesterday would have been Mom’s 94th birthday. We miss her and cherish all the memories we have of the kind, caring, fun loving person that she was. Especially in Mom’s later years, birthdays were important milestones and meant a lot to her. So today it seemed like a good time to look back at birthdays we shared with her over the years. Perfume and Roses When we were young, birthday parties were held on Sunday rather than on the actual birthday day. With five kids all going in different directions, this ensured the whole family was around the table for the traditional Sunday roast beef dinner and the ensuing festivities.…
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What a Difference a Year Makes?
On this Canadian Thanksgiving day, we once again gather to celebrate and of course give thanks. As always it’s a happy occasion with lots of conversation, laughter and delicious food. As a family, we are blessed. We Won’t Back Down One year ago, our Thanksgiving in the midst of Covid was an interesting ?? affair. Out of an abundance of caution, and because a vaccine was not yet available, we ate outside, sheltered from the pouring rain and huddled in the bone chilling cold. To put things in context, I refer you to our Thanksgiving post last year, titled “Thanksgiving in the Breezeway.” You have to read it to believe…
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Off To Randy’s House We Go…Maybe?
The above picture is of our brother Randy. Despite an uncanny resemblance to Howdy Doody, we think he is just adorable. Have you ever heard of the saying from the 70's, " Keep on Trucking?" Well this is exactly what the Sisterhood of the Travelling Shoes is going to do. Since we have completed two virtual walks, one along the Cabot Trail and one around the Ring of Kerry, we decided to do one of entirely our own design. Read on faithful follower and see the exciting adventure that we have in store for our next virtual walk.
