Lingering Thoughts

My first born is turning 40 this month! His birthday is two days after mine and I'm turning 64. Remember the song by the Beatles. "Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 64"? My "was-band" and I used to sing it to one another and even inserted 64...

July 1st marked a decade since my Mother died. She regularly told me "I'm going to die when I'm 89". When I'd ask her how she knew, she'd say "That's how old my Mother was when she died". I'd try to convince her that she was healthier than her Mother and that life...

I am a white woman who has been in a committed romantic relationship with a black man for the past 7 years and it offers me precious insights into racism and race relations. I would like to share a few vignettes at this point in our love story. We are regularly stared...

Planning for the Unexpected We planned our series of Lifestyle Workshops in January and this one was very timely with the COVID-19 lockdown. Our experts offered valuable information and additional tips came in from our participants. I’ve been working with...

I set up a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle on my dining room table a couple of weeks ago. When I get overwhelmed with what is outside of my control during these tough times, I turn to it for a break. I set the timer for 15-20 minutes and finding only a few...

So much has changed with COVID-19! We find ourselves living slower than we ever expected to be living right now. I feel that some of us have travelled back in time. Food basics are flying off the grocery shelves. Comfort foods have become more important to...

IMAGE: The participants (above) with the 'money' they 'earned' at the workshop. Those are Toronto Dollars - a community currency. It was a fun way to learn about what money means to us, without losing a penny!   We held a Lifestyle Workshop last...

Understanding Money - A Lifestyle Workshop by Spoken Lives - February 27, 2020   Are you happy with your emotional relationship with money? At this experiential workshop, you will achieve a deeper understanding of the relationship you have developed with...

Really? What was the question? I have a hunch that the question was how do we live in a world where each and every day the news reports such nastiness. Media captures images and reports stories that scare me! I'm on a diet, now. I restrict my mainstream...

Of our own lives, anyway! The beginning of a new decade offers the chance to look back - at the decade or the past 365 days and reflect on what worked for us and what didn't. I've had a total life makeover in this past decade and took an hour to review...