Every year (more or less) on this day, I participate in theBloggers Silent Poetry Reading on the Feast of St. Brigid. I’ve never been ableto find out how it originated, but went with the flow of what I saw around me,posting poems I …

This sign hangs in my kitchen.  It serves as a daily reminder of a promise made, and blessings that abound.  In our marriage, with our family and our closest of friends, one thing remains certain.  Love…. Forever and Always and…

—————————————————————————————————————————————————— Dearest Reader. Reading this constitutes your consent to the following point: I, Kelly Diels, plan to poach and scramble our every conversation and interaction into yummy blog posts and other delicious content. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Just kidding. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— (Sorta. That disclaimer basically describes life with a writer. Just ask my loverloverman.) —————————————————————————————————————————————————— …and now back to [...]

 I find inanimate objects can hold a whole story and an entire set of memories.When I was at school, I had a soft pink shirt that my friend Nancy and I called "the kissing shirt" because  anyone who wore it…

I’ve never been any good at following others’ advice. When it comes to big decisions I’ve always relied on following which option would make me happiest and not the one that’s ‘best’ for me.

Love’s evolution is my resolution, my revolution, my solution. The time is now. 2012 is upon us. The beginning is here!
I’d like to offer you an invitation, an invocation, a wake up call. Wake up! (Zen hand clap) It’s time to come to our senses, a…

It’s almost Christmas Eve.  A night to celebrate all that is special to us in our own unique ways.  For me, for our family, we celebrate by making time for family, exchanging gifts, sharing a meal, a laugh and counting our blessings.  …

Like many of you, my focus these days is on Christmas preparations – cooking, traveling, feasting, and spending time with friends and family. 350orbust will be getting less attention than usual for a while. But I have a collection of videos and p…

The spring of 1997 I moved in with Drang, and one of his best friends used to spend a lot of time at the house. His friend was drop-dead sexy, rather shy, with a biting wit and a soft-spoken nature. … Continue reading → – Syndicated from h…

There are so many scenes from this movie (which is defintely in my top 10 all time favourite movies) that I love and can quote cold but this is one of my favourites. Lloyd Dobler (played by my long time…

That was my reality. That’s probably most of the world’s reality. But it wasn’t Dori’s. She walked in the memory of her one true love. She looked at the living incarnation of that love, every day. Her daughter was her love child.

I wish everyone was a love child.

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Our love child is Theo. He’s two weeks old, today.

Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now. -Mister Rogers, taken from Teacher Tom’s blog.I"ve…

"Everyday I pick you up. We go out, have a few drinks, a few laughs, and it’s great, but ya know what the best part of my day is? It’s the 10 seconds from when I pull up to the…

You were close by today; I could hear your voice telling me to slow down and drive carefully in the rain; and memories of you and your laughter wove in and around moments in my day. It was after all, the anniversary of your birth. I try to conjure…

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By TSM Thanks to Mike S for passing this along: “Simmons claims that Burke (who recently joined Twitter) and Wilson have blocked him…………..but they both deny doing that…………..it’s possible they are right since Simmons often doesn’t seem to understand exactly how Twitter works…………….here is what Burke and Wilson wrote: Burke: [...]

By TSM A happy bday to the littlest TSM who turns all of 7 tomorrow! Hard to believe it was 7 years ago next month we returned to Toronto. So, I was thinking about all this negativity surrounding the radio ratings and the brutally small number of people meters out [...]

Oh how I wish I were a trinity, so if I lost a part of me, I’d still have two of the same to live But nobody gets a lifetime rehearsal, as specks of dust we’re universal To let this love survive would be the greatest gift that we could give. – The Indigo Girls [...]

go tell your lover that s/he’s your fucking hero
right now. You won’t regret it.