Thanks to everyone who added their favourite romance movies to My Top 10 Favourite Romance Movies post. What awesome movie selections! My poor husband will never get near the TV now. I’ll put together a master list on a future post so we can share everyone’s choices. Keep the Kleenex coming! The Bridges of Madison [...]
Sometimes on a hot summer night, I’ll sit outside in my Muskoka chair and look up at the stars twinkling in the sky. My mind wanders to people and places long forgotten. A moonlit picnic on the beach. Sipping champagne at an outdoor café. Afternoon tea in the splendid garden of a rustic mansion. Indulge [...]
Verona, Italy – the city of the most famous lovers in history, Romeo and Juliet. Tourists flock to the tiny romantic courtyard of the House of Juliet and the hopelessly love lost send letters to Juliet looking for answers to sooth their troubled hearts. Feelings of love twinkle on paper like stars in the heavens. [...]
I find it astounding that many women still don’t make wearing sunscreen a regular part of their daily skin care routine! Buying sunscreen can be a daunting task with the shelves full of brightly coloured bottles and sprays not to mention the need for a PhD. to understand the labels! But we have no choice. [...]
Be true to yourself. That’s been my mantra for most of my life. Was Gayle Haggard true to herself when she stayed with her husband, world-renowned evangelist Ted Haggard after his scandolous confession of sexual indiscretion with a man and illicit drug use? After reading her book, Why I Stayed, I believe she was. Ted [...]
“Spa” is my middle name! Add delectable cuisine in a breathtaking 19th Century mansion and I’m in heaven! But this hideaway has a unique twist. Memories Manor is an exclusive retreat designed for ladies that love to scrapbook! This St. Clair, Michigan treasure was home for a blissful weekend in mid-March for January, Leanne, Judy, and [...]
You’d think I’d have learned by now to “walk not run” down the stairs. Well I guess I hadn’t…until yesterday. I stupidly ran down the stairs and tripped on the final two steps. I’ve learned my lesson this time after five hours in Emergency, several gruelling x-rays with a final diagnosis of a chipped ankle bone [...]
I’ve spent the better part of the winter parked in front of my TV watching contestants sing, dance, cry, starve and backstab. Yep. Sad but true. And you know I’ve found that TV and eating seem to go hand in hand. Or should I say hand to mouth! No wonder my pants were too tight [...]
There are moments in life that no matter how many people are all around you, you are still alone. I came to that realization as I sat in my oversized hospital gown waiting for the x-ray tech to return from that mysterious place down the long hall where a faceless stranger determines your fate. “We [...]
I’d like to honour two outstanding women over 40 that have set the bar high for the rest of us! I find their achievements inspiring and I know that if we believe in ourselves, there isn’t anything we can’t do. One woman crashed through the film industry’s glass ceiling last Sunday. Fifty-eight year old Kathryn [...]
