Author Archives: karenpnd

Happy New Year!!! It is crazy how fast this year has gone. Yes Christmas. After Christmas…then what? Well the beauty of Christmas, hopefully, is that it left a filled tummy, maybe a little overflow around the belt area, and a gentle reminder of wonder and awe. Otherness….thinking of those we love, our neighbours, and thoseContinue reading “After Christmas….then what?”

I hear the snowplow echo its machinery as it drives by. So it must have snowed over the early morning hours because it was and has been a green green PEI island; yesterday included. Not a flicker of white unless you are back in the bushes or deep in a ditch. But I’m not goingContinue reading “Being Ready for the Unexpected”

It is not an easy time for some people during the season of Christmas as it draws near. I know that I am get very excited as people who know me are aware. LOL. And I do enjoy most parts of Christmas and its preparation even if it is over-the-top in commercial and frenzy andContinue reading “Time of Caring”

You know Youtube has everything under the sun if you want to see or learn more about something just Youtube or google it. How it arrives at the gathering of a crazy amount of accessible information or tidbits on whatever is your fancy of knowing, I have not a clue. Information age is alive andContinue reading “Coming Home”

It ’tis the season of Advent. A time of preparation for the coming of the birth of Christ as Christmas draws near. We are asked to pay attention to the little signs of life with Christ in and around us. Giving ourselves permission to take a few moments of each day to welcome the notionContinue reading “Sharing the Season”

Oh my! Oh my! Is it too early to speak of such a thing, I wonder? I was expecting it soon but not today. I mean lets face it, there are things in life that you look forward to, but not, at the same time. What’s it going to be like this year? For shiverContinue reading “Snow!! Already?”

That is what I would be saying to him today. Hail. Caesar. Not a greeting or a halloo. No. More like, it’s hailing. What!! Apparently I did not read my phone app nor the clouds properly outside for hail came a flying down while out for morning walk. I thought for a moment I wasContinue reading “Hail!!! Caesar.”

Not sure what gets my funny bone or a warm fuzzy going in me until it happens. It does not take much to make me smile or chuckle which I am appreciative of. I am heading down one of the streets in Barrie and the wind is up. The leaves are swirling and twirling around,Continue reading “A Grateful Smile”

It’s fall!! Oh it is the beautiful gift of fall. And the beginning of October!! Holy goodness gracious, time flies. That is okay for the glorious sights and smells of autumn are upon us. Walking through a park in the northern heart of Barrie, you cannot help be in awe of the trees and floraContinue reading “Fall’in Again”

I just got off the phone with my younger sister, who lives on PEI, and smiled with happiness for her and her family. Why? To begin with, I realize the surrounding circumstances today are nothing to smile about as the storm of storms hit the lands of the Maritimes, Hurricane Fiona. You betcha. It literallyContinue reading “Hope in the Storm”