Does Twenty-Five Years in One Place a Home Make?
It was twenty five years ago today that I landed in Oh Canada! with two drugged cats and a not …
Category Archives: Finding Home
Getting on with It All
Word Press can be so bossy sometimes. It just reminded me that I hadn’t written anything yet. The notice was …
Breaking in a new Home Is Easier than Settling Your Heart in a New Neighbourhood
It’s too bad that we can’t unpack our hearts and settle them in a new home the way we do …
Pack Up Those Boxes, It’s Moving Day
Since September, I feel like I’ve been climbing a steep, obstacle-strewn craggy mountain weighed down with all the sadness, and …
This Limbo is Getting Old
I am stuck for another two weeks in this in-between world where I don’t really belong to this wonderful apartment …
Paper, Paper, Paper Be Gone
Why is it so difficult to go through and get rid of the stacks of paper that we accumulate? Why …
The Cats Could Teach Me a Lot about Change … if I’d Only Listen
Do cats get homesick even before they move? Are they already, like me, feeling sad that we’re leaving this place and …
You Can’t Tell Your Mood by the Weather
We’re having a Saturday afternoon ice storm as I sit here in the warm Chai shop sipping an elixir. It …
Oops! Is It Too Late to Save for this Old Age of Mine?
I have not planned this old age business well at all. This whole home finding has accentuated a very negative …
Apartment Hunting in Toronto is Not for Sissies … or People with Limited Funds
There’s a bank in Toronto that advertises that we are all “richer than we think.” I snickered at that this …
