Today is Canada Day

I am an American who has lived in Canada since 1984 so as far as Canadian history goes, I didn’t learn much about it in school (and really, I remember very little about American history either, but that was just me being lazy) and if I’m being perfectly honest, since living here Canada’s history didn’t really…

Anybody Else Have Pandemic Fatigue?

This pandemic has been hard. Even for people like my husband and me. I mean we are lucky to have 5 of us living in our home, so we were never really alone or really isolated from human contact but that doesn’t mean it’s not been hard for us too.  Life as we’ve known it…

Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month & Nana’s Buns in a Bowl

  March is Multiple Sclerosis Awareness month so in honour of that, I thought I would write a little about what MS has been for me, and pardon me if you’ve already heard it all, but I’m just going to go ahead and blame that on the brain fog! Speaking of brain fog – You…

My Chronic Life

Did you know that 2.8 million people worldwide have MS (1 in 3,000 people). And globally, approximately one in three of all adults suffer from multiple chronic conditions (MCCs). “Get well soon or I hope all is well!” Both common things to say to someone who is under the weather, and while the sentiment is…

Lessons I missed in school, recent relapse & Cinnamon Raisin Artisan Bread

I am back…….anyway, I think I’m back.  As if the whole COVID pandemic isn’t stressful enough, my Multiple Sclerosis has decided that it would like to start acting up again after a year and a half of being off a Disease Modifying Drug (DMD) and doing really well, I have relapsed. This is a real…

What I learned from Hedy Lamarr

We are 8 months into the pandemic that has taken the world by storm along with all of the other massive issues the world is facing and it has never been more apparent to me that we, as a society need to find our way back to empathy and compassion.  But how does that happen…