13 search results for: Denise Leduc

There are people you like, people you love, and those very special that you adore. Jan Shadick definitely falls into the category of people I adore. I will never forget meeting Jan. I was living in Saskatoon and had inquired about volunteering for Living Sky Wildlife Rehabilitation. I was invited to stop by, so I...

In July 1999, Chris Brady, who lives in the San Francisco area, started NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). The first NaNoWriMo consisted of 20 participants. The next year, the event was moved to November, as the weather in November is much more conducive to writing as opposed to July. Since then, NaNoWriMo has become a...

I don’t think I am alone when I say I am so over this pandemic. However, if current daily COVID-19 numbers are any indication, the pandemic isn’t quite over with us yet.

Recently, I took an online improv class. This was a requirement for a course I was taking. If it wasn’t a requirement to complete the course, i don’t think I could have worked up the nerve to do the class.

Recently, I have been noticing some new buzzwords brought on by the pandemic. Languishing is a word that has recently been trending. It is being used to describe not exactly feeling depressed, but also not flourishing. Doomscrolling is spending too much time at a screen, looking at all the bad news, even when we find...

I had been hearing a lot of buzz around a new book, Flat Out Delicious, by author Jenn Sharp and photographer Richard Marjan. Intrigued, I requested a copy from the library this past fall. Once I received the book, it didn’t take long for me realize that this was a book that needed to be...

Over the past few years as the days grow longer and colder, I turn inward and create a little hygge in my life and in my home. Hygge is a Danish concept that came to the attention of North Americans a few years ago. In 2016, the word hygge was shortlisted as Oxford Dictionaries Word...

It is the season of traditions. Some traditions may have been around for generations. I still make my great grandmother’s stuffing every year. Other traditions slowly evolve over the years. From the time my oldest daughter was born, each year my mom would give us all a new pair of pajamas to open on Christmas...

Two of the most important people in my life were my grandmas. Through my husband, I was blessed to also have in my life two strong, feisty, caring women of that generation. Our daughters were fortunate to know, spend time, and make memories with this group of women that we referred to collectively as “the...