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Vegetable Soup and Slow Food
If you ask my granddaughter about fast food she will tell you that she doesn’t eat it and that she eats slow food instead. Her mommy is doing an excellent job of educating her on the merits of healthy...
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Canning, Thirties Style
a4I mentioned a while ago that I was going through some old recipes that came from my grandma’s house. I came across a scrap of paper with faded pencil script on it that I found interesting. I found a...
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Canadian Weblog Awards
I received an early Christmas surprise this morning when I learned that A Slice Of Life was awarded second place Canadian Weblog Awards Writing & Literature category! I’m humbled to be counted...
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He Is Risen!
On Friday we attended a Good Friday service that was so powerful it brought me to tears. Today, on Easter Sunday, we rejoice that our Saviour who endured the horror of the cross for us . . . for me . ....
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On Retreat
This post was first published at Story Circle Network’s One Woman’s Day blog. Once a year my husband goes on a salmon fishing trip with a few of his friends. It’s as much of a pleasure for me as it is...
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The September 6 Garden
Things are beginning to wind down in the community garden. A couple of gardeners have already cleaned their plots out completely but there’s still lots of action happening in the Hoye garden. We’ll be...
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Blessed
“You’re so blessed.” When my husband and I started seeing one another seventeen years ago and I started to get to know his family I said these words to him often. I was brought to tears more than once...
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Applehead Gratitude
A couple of days ago, a rainy and cool morning, I made applesauce. On a whim, I set four apples aside and when the jars of applesauce were processing in the canner Gerry and I peeled them, cut faces...
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Contentment
This morning, for the first time this season, it snowed. Not much, and it didn’t stick, but as we sat in bed sipping our first cup of coffee and catching up on the news on our iPads we watched outside...
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One day, not so very long ago I felt broken, utterly and completely spent. Bereft. The burden of holding myself more-or-less together throughout the day became more than I could carry; I thought I...
View ArticleWelcome 2016!
Are you as relieved as I am to have the holidays behind us? December was one of those “interesting” months for me–one of those “best of times, worst of times” kind of thing. It started off very...
View ArticleVertigo
On Boxing Day I woke up to find that the room was spinning. I had slept fitfully Christmas night and thought perhaps it was a lack of sleep that was causing the vertigo. I rested for a few minutes, the...
View ArticleGlass. Light. White. Airy.
Glass, light, shades of white, and airy. That was the photography prompt I chose to work on one day last week. It seemed natural that I would grab a few mason jars to use for the glass part of the...
View ArticleMonday Morning
The house is dark and silent save for the hum of the furnace cutting in now and then. It’s comforting, the security of a furnace warming the home for the day. I stand at the bedroom window and throw...
View ArticleLeap Day Gratitude
It’s February 29th today. Leap Day as some are calling it. It’s been just another day for me. And then I saw a post on a beautiful and inspiring blog I’ve started following called Keeping With the...
View Article50 Happy Things
I finally snagged a copy of the beautiful and inspiring Bella Grace magazine last week. Oh my. So many beautiful photographs and inspiring words. Life’s been busy and I haven’t […]
View ArticlePrairie Peace
In the summertime my thoughts turn toward the place I consider my heart’s home: a tiny hamlet on the Saskatchewan prairie where my grandma raised her three children alone after […]
View ArticleA Summer of Reunion and Returning
This summer is unexpectedly turning into one of reconnecting with people who inhabit special places in my heart. It was a joy to get together with a dear friend I haven’t seen […]
View ArticleBlog Anniversary: A look back, a look ahead, and a giveaway!
On August 3, 2008 I published my first post on a blog I called My Own Velvet Room. Blogging was a relatively new thing and many blogs had all manner of […]
View ArticleSimple Happy
“Out of clutter, find simplicity.” ~ Albert Einstein New week. Fresh start. I stopped using the page on the left in my journal some time ago because I preferred the freshness of the clean page on the...
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