When you’re retired, every day is Saturday

Lynda Davis
July 7, 2019
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Type A personality types who must be constantly busy and productive must also be constantly exhausted. Or maybe I just wish that so I don't feel guilty about not being as virtuous as they are. Much as I wish I could be like them, that's not the way I was engineered. My mother had to register me in morning kindergarten so I could nap in the afternoons and unfortunately, the habit stuck. I still love to nap in the afternoons. It was inconvenient when I was working (!!) but now…

“You’ve got mail” is now a ping, not a pleasure to be savoured

Lynda Davis
June 14, 2019
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Call me old-fashioned but I love getting mail, the kind now referred to as snail mail. If a day goes by that I don't get a magazine or something personal in my mailbox, I can get downright cranky. Is it because my life is so utterly lacking in excitement that the mail is a big deal to me? Even my little dog jumps up and down spinning with excitement when I announce, "Let's go get the mail". She understands. Yesterday I was thrilled to find my mailbox stuffed with magazines,…

We've got mail!

Kudos to Chatelaine and Dove soap for recognizing that all women are beautiful

Lynda Davis
June 7, 2019
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When I received the June/July 2019 issue of Chatelaine magazine in my mailbox this week I was a little taken aback—at first. Featured on the cover of the annual swimsuit issue (a cliché if there ever was one) is a full-bodied woman of indeterminate age wearing a coral-coloured swimsuit, a straw sunhat, and a huge smile. The more I thought about it and went through its pages, the bigger the smile grew on my own face. It takes courage for a major magazine to turn the tables on the media's…

Different covers were released in different areas.

Glory hallelujah! It’s road construction season again. Help wanted

Lynda Davis
June 3, 2019
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It's a common cliché here in Canada—we have only two seasons—winter and road construction. As I drive around the city and surrounding countryside I'm experiencing my annual surge of anger and frustration with the state of our transportation system. Once the snow melts, roads and highways are cordoned off, lanes reduced and then nothing happens. IF there's any activity on the site, two bored-looking workers are wandering around with a shovel in their hands but most often there's nothing going on. I realize road and highway maintenance and improvements are necessary…

Clear the track! I'll be dead before this @!#$%^& work gets finished.

I Marie-Kondo’d my bra drawer and feel so uplifted

Lynda Davis
May 27, 2019
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Rachel Hollis, author of Girl, Wash Your Face was right: Bras are the devil's work. Over my lifetime, I've probably invested the equivalent cost of a luxury German imported car in a futile search for a comfortable bra. I'm convinced they don't exist. Yesterday as I was getting dressed to go out, I tried on no less than three before I found one comfortable enough to wear to the mall. And when I got there I bee-lined it for the Jockey For Her section in the lingerie department in search of something…

We all know that feeling!

My Queendom for a decent nightgown

Lynda Davis
May 17, 2019
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Am I the only person on the planet who still wears nightgowns rather than pyjamas? It's been more than two years since I've been able to rotate some of my old nighties out and replace them with new ones. The reason for this is not because I blew the budget on purses and shoes or that I haven't really tried. I've been scouring the department stores, lingerie boutiques, the internet and everywhere short of dumpsters looking for some new replacement nightgowns. Everything, everywhere is pyjamas, pyjamas, pyjamas. Shorties. Thermals. Dorm-wear.…

I'm running out of options.