Today is my 51st Birthday! Reflections of my First Year in the Second Half of my Life – What a Hell of a Ride!

51 It is just a number. To me, 51 represents the distance in this journey of my life. Reflections Emotions are messy. Regulating them is challenging at best. Sitting with uncomfortable emotions without reaction takes practice. Meditation truly gives inner peace, but Rome wasn’t built in a day and the same applies to my meditation…

Canadian Repatriation Adventure – First Stop – Ottawa, Ontario – Canada’s Capital City – Parliament Hill

This was an unexpected find during my wanderings of downtown Ottawa!  I can hear the gasp of any Canadian reading this, wondering why I wouldn’t have known this! I will shamefully admit guilty and that I really didn’t know what I was allowed to see and do at Parliament Hill.  Thanks to a friendly guard outside…

Canadian Repatriation Adventure – First Stop – Ottawa, Ontario – Canada’s Capital City!

We were still on the move immediately after our 14 hour flight from Qatar to Montreal, (click here to read that blog about our [final] last day in Qatar!), but not yet on the move towards our final repatriation destination – Halifax, Nova Scotia! We were on the move to drop off our two cats…