Christmas Eve 2020
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How many Christmas Eve’s have passed? New Years heralded in? Birthdays, Anniversaries, celebrations. Calendar pages flipped. Carelessly. As if time did not matter. Is not relevant. “Time is like a toilet paper roll” she told me “The closer you get to the end the quicker it goes.” Absently nodding...
Writing Words
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Someday I’m gonna write something brilliant, that compels your brain to kick into high gear, that sticks in your gut as you read it and wraps itself slyly around your heart, twisting your mind to think differently about everything you ever thought you knew. Someday I’m gonna write something beautiful, breathtakingly lush...
Live the Questions
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Refrains of Auld Lang Syne echos in my mind, an earworm incessantly playing as Day 7 of the new year passes unheralded, another calendar page ripped from the pad, 358 remaining. Unresolved thoughts for the future, along with reminises of the past create a familiar stirring, questions arising, which direction should I choose...
B.C. Seniors’ Home Renovation Tax Credit
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The B.C. seniors home renovation tax credit assists individuals 65 and over with the cost of certain permanent home renovations to improve accessibility or help a senior be more functional or mobile at home. The program starts April 1, 2012 so your renovation expenses must happen on or after this date. An eligible expense...
Ghosts of New Year’s Past, remain hauntingly familiar
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New Years Day, a time for quiet reflection, reconnection, and perhaps a resurrection? Yesterday I chose to view my website, with the intent of ‘freshening’ my Bio, updating blogs, deleting old posts – wiping away the cobwebs – sprinkling pixie dust. I found myself reading my bio scribed in 2008,...