If I'm going to do 12 vignettes by Tuesday next week, then I'm in trouble because I'm leaving on Wed for a few days!!! Oh well, I'll slowly keep going! This one will be short ( Read more... )

Home is where the heart is ( Read more... )

It's very special to know your grandparents and I was lucky enough to grow up in my early years with all four living within a short drive. All four had such great personalities and my Grandad still does - as he approaches his 97th birthday! But when when I was small, there was a kind of magic in visiting Nana and Grandad. Their house was small and ( Read more... )

We often look back on our childhood years with a kind of nostalgia. Things were easier weren't they. You didn't have as many responsibilities and everything was provided for you. However, this meant that you had to do what your parents told you to do and you had to go where they went. Sometimes my parents were invited to others' places and being ( Read more... )

In 1994, my parents and I moved to a new town. It was a lot smaller than the one I'd come from and my siblings were in their late teens and didn't move with us. I was devastated. This new situation was not conducive to my personality and I was very sad. Despite my questionable social intelligence, I LOVE having others around and my parents could ( Read more... )

On Sunday I was privileged to attend 'Fill the Basin for Christchurch', which was a cricket match arranged by ex-Black Caps captain Stephen Fleming as a fundraiser for his earthquake-damaged hometown. The teams were Canterbury invitation XI vs Wellington invitation XI at the beautiful cricket purpose venue, the Basin Reserve in Wellington. There ( Read more... )

I was sitting in a chair in Dunedin one February afternoon in 2002 and thinking to myself “What on EARTH am I doing here???” I hadn't yet learnt that whenever you ask yourself that question, you are usually in a place that is stretching you and growing you and that where you are in that moment, is more often than not, the right place to be and a ( Read more... )

Hello and welcome back to bethisincanada. I have not written in here for a while but I have a new idea and I'd like to use my blog as the platform. I am going to write twelve vignettes about my childhood. I'm not certain that vignette is the right term but I am going to write twelve mini stories from my first two decades. I'm defining childhood as ( Read more... )

Hi. Haven't written in here for an age. Thought I'd share the email I sent to my family about my time in Hong Kong ( Read more... )

I'm back in Canada!!!! I did it!