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Celebrate Good Times!

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Four years ago (yesterday), I started writing a blog. My first blog was a reaction to having to stay home. I only lasted about a week at home, not working, before I was going stir crazy. I had thought, after 12 years, that I didn't really need to use my brain too much at work. I just knew what I was doing, and did it. I realized how much time I spent teaching my clients, problem solving their injuries, devising treatment plans and counselling.  My Chinook Massage Therapy blog was a tool for me to help my clients help themselves. They weren't allowed to go for massages, but they were still in pain. I found a great deal of professional satisfaction in that.  Unexpectedly, I also discovered that I love to write. I am a natural storyteller and this was a vehicle for my stories. The problem was, once that stay at home order lifted, and I was back at work, everything changed. I didn't want to massage all day, then come home and write about massage.  And so, "My Co-pilot Is A

5 Months of The Arts

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My love for live theatre was cemented when I was in High School Drama. It was further fostered when, as a University student, I could attend any performance at the Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton at very affordable student rates. Opportunities to attend live performances were limited as a young mother. We lived in a fairly remote place and arranging child care were challenging hurdles. When we moved to Sundre, we were delighted to find a community which embraces the arts and were able to instill a love for theatre into our children as well. Over the years, they have both been in choir, band and drama. As they matured, one found his passion on the stage and one with a bass clarinet. After a long hiatus, due to the pandemic which shall not be named, performing arts have opened their doors again! We have taken every opportunity to suspend disbelief and be transported to another time and place.  A girls' night / birthday celebration found me at an Air Supply concert. I have been to very

A Historic Afternoon in the Hat

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 Our trip to see my nephew's play in Medicine Hat gave me an opportunity to show Rob my old "stomping grounds". The weather was unusually grey, damp and foggy. Medicine Hat is renowned for it's sunshine and blue skies, but we didn't see a speck of it!  As we cruised around the city; showing of my high school, my grandparent's house, my church (that looks like a castle) - we ended up by Medalta Potteries. It's now a museum, and we decided, on the spot, that it was the perfect indoor activity. Medicine Hat's abundance of clay made it an ideal location for pottery and brick factories. Older houses, commercial buildings and churches are all constructed from brick, rather than timber (which is not in abundance).Medalta Potteries has iconic beehive kilns that you can go inside, galleries of pottery and glass (from Altaglass), and an abundance of antique machinery. The layout of the facility is part museum, part historic site, part archeology dig and part wor