‘Tis September, and although people associate this with fall, I say it’s still summer! I don’t want to rush it away. I completed a course in the Origins of Medicine a few weeks ago; because I only had one course and it was spread through the months, I was able to spend time tending to […]
I wrote my last two blogs posts about what I’d (not) been doing since university classes and final exams ended in mid-April. However, along with needing to recover and catch up on household tasks, I also was able to notice small beautiful life moments. For the past three and a half years, I have been
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As discussed in my recent blog post, I spent time in May and June recovering from school and catching up on household tasks that had long fallen by the wayside. In addition to batch cooking and starting a summer course, I took up some maker projects again. I have found that my learning curve with
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I made it through my second year of university!! My first year was an all-in-one program with the same schedule four days a week, same assignments every two weeks. Switching to a more typical university schedule was a bit of a challenge, but thanks to my trusty planning book, I mapped out all classes and
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Before the COVID 19 era, I had the surprise and pleasure of being offered a few freelance writing jobs for pay. Long before this, in high school while taking a Journalism class, I spent three months writing a column of local news for the small village I lived in. I can’t even call it a
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Just a very quick update. A few months ago, I was interviewed for the Now or Never radio show at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. I had pitched to write an article (about my having started a Bachelor’s degree at age 55) elsewhere on the CBC website, and was redirected to the radio show. The process
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Another project I did in August was starting multiple craft projects so that I could pick up any random one of them and work on them in between reading and university classes. However, I have not actually had time to immerse myself into any of these tiny projects, because I spend more of my time
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That title should be “August Creations Written About in Mid-November Because ‘School!’.” I thought that because I am taking “only” three classes this semester, I would have more time for crafting and sharing blog posts with you. However, it seems that the “extra” time compared to last year has been eaten by my learning to
Over this past summer, I took a couple more university courses so that I could 1) hope to finish my degree within five years and 2) try out my new academic essay-writing skills. The first one ran over May and June; so in regards to time commitment, it was like taking two courses in a
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This post has a collection of three different types of stitching I completed over the past nine months while in school. In this first photo, you can see embroidery stitching that I applied to a couple of linen hand towels I had sewn from a thrift store linen tablecloth. These were a gift for a
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