Travelling With A Friend – Part 2

Travelling With A Friend – Part 2

Have you read – Travelling With A Friend Part 1? The airport McDonald’s is bubbling with energy. People make it through the winding wait with steaming food in hand – they attempt to find chairs and tables in a space overflowing. I find seating for three and arrange...
Travelling With A Friend – Part 1

Travelling With A Friend – Part 1

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” Helen Keller     I press the snooze button. 4:40am. My bed feels cozy, blanket soft. I groan. Who gets up at this hour? I let sleep pull me away. “You better wake up.” My husband interrupts...
To The Bird And Flower Market

To The Bird And Flower Market

My latest find at the Bird and Flower Market – Air Plants “Mom, we’re out of hamster food.” “Then it’s off to the Bird and Flower Market.” A favourite stop. We’ve just returned from our three month tour of Canada and are getting settled in again. Leaving the cloudy...
Forever Free

Forever Free

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. –Frederick Douglass     Packing for our move to China, years ago, I tucked some books into our suitcase for my two little ones. I had no idea the role they would play in our family life. When we stepped off the plane,...
Longing for Home

Longing for Home

Foxes have dens, and birds of the air have nests. I have said a tearful good-bye to our families and a nostalgic good-bye to my country. The airplane that I am seated on is filled with people, each with black hair and almond eyes. Canada is behind me, I am once again...