Motivational Mondays for Fellas

I thought I would do a quick post for all the guys out there. I know most inspirational posts are targeted at women, but I feel you deserve some love and respect as well.  Especially in these tough times, we all need to feel better about ourselves, and deserve to be able to reach out

Just What The Doctor Ordered!

Who doesn’t love a trip to the seaside on a gorgeous sunny day? I certainly do! And since I have chemo tomorrow and will miss out on the nice forecast for the next day or two, I decided that it was a good idea to take advantage of it today. I wanted spend some time

Hello

Did you know that today is World Hello Day? Neither did I, until this morning. But after doing a bit of research, I discovered some interesting facts about it. World Hello Day was originally started in autumn 1973, as a response to the Yom Kippur war happening between Israel and Egypt. It was supposed to

Saying Good-Bye

If you’ve been following my blog for awhile now, you know I am leaving Canada to return to my homeland of Scotland. Here I sit, down to my last few days here. It kinda’ feels surreal! This is not a sad occasion, however. Even though it is hard to say farewell to family, friends and

(I’m A) Bestselling Author!

Our book launch on Amazon was a huge success on Monday! We had a live event through Facebook and Zoom, and watched as our book roared up the rankings. It was suggested that I set up an author’s page on Amazon too, so that I could connect myself to the book officially through their site.

Choices For Change

I apologize for the late submission today. I was working on finishing my last writing piece for this project. I am excited, honoured and humbled to be a part of this wonderful book! Below is our official promotion piece: Choices for Change: Courageous Decisions That Changed Lives is an inspired collection of thirteen authors vulnerably

Book Collaboration Project Moving Forward Again!

Several months ago, I was asked by a colleague if I’d like to submit a story for a collaborative book project. I believe I had been asked in the past about being a part of other books also, but had not had the time, energy or creative juices to do so. but this time, I

Make Every Day Count: Musings Of A Cancer Patient

Cancer is scary. There’s no “ifs, ands or buts” about it. Many of us have known someone who either has or has had cancer. Maybe you lost a friend or loved one to it? Perhaps some of you are like me, and living with it yourselves. I can picture you all reading this. You’re nodding,

Be Yourself

You Are Perfectly Imperfect! Today’s blog is for a friend and former coworker of mine. He was feeling down on himself the other night, because people judge him based on his disability. Mind you, if you were to see him, you wouldn’t know he had one. But he was born with it, and he’ll have

Be Kind

I see a lot of posts and memes lately, all about people doing good deeds for one another, and praising front line workers and others who are still working and risking their health during the Covid-19 pandemic. Did it seriously take a global health scare to get us to be nice to each other? To