Erin’s Journals

Saturday, May 2, 2020

Just a thought… What’s a week-end? [Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess on Downton Abbey] The question was posed by @ThatEricAlper this past week: what happened to you in grade school that you remember to this day? There are a great many things. There were the awful occurrences of bullying (a girl named Susan who would wash

Rob WhiteheadSaturday, May 2, 2020
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Friday, May 1, 2020

Just a thought… Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system. [Ellen DeGeneres] Hello May! If you don’t have that Mother’s Day card in the mail yet, you’re risking it being late. Yes, in the three years we call self-isolation, it’s easy to lose track of things that are coming

Rob WhiteheadFriday, May 1, 2020
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Thursday, April 30, 2020

Just a thought… We can make ourselves miserable, or we can make ourselves happy. The amount of energy is the same. [Pema Chodron] Well, it’s official: as good Canadians, we’re going to have to eat more potatoes. Our favourites are the Cavendish restaurant-style shoestring fries in our T-Fal air fryer – do they count? Here’s

Rob WhiteheadThursday, April 30, 2020
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Just a thought… It only takes one person to change your life: you. [Ruth Casey] Has anyone else felt like this? Like the first couple of weeks of quarantine/self-isolation were a bit like a vacation from the rules, but now it’s like the end of Christmas break and it’s time to start seeing if pants

Rob WhiteheadWednesday, April 29, 2020
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Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Just a thought… To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. [Thomas Campbell] This number will probably rise, but what great news to read that some $6,000,000 was raised for Foodbanks Canada by Sunday night’s #StrongerTogether special. How amazing is that? O, Canada, indeed! They’ll be taking donations for the next 30 days,

Rob WhiteheadTuesday, April 28, 2020
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