Busy is overrated So yesterday I found myself finished an appointment much earlier than anticipated. It was like I had won the lottery! Free time. Now, if I was true to my character I would have filled that time with being busy doing something. Something. Being busy… But, busy is overrated, so I decide to […]
A father and his journal
“When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back.” Linda Poindexter Ben was a man of many words. Literally. There were over 50 journals in this box beginning in the late 1950’s through to mid 1990’s. And this was only one box! He was a father to four. And Grandpa to 11. It […]
Mail at The Palliser Hotel
Happy Birthday! The Fairmont Palliser Hotel in downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada is celebrating its 100 year anniversary of having opened the doors in 1914. I wonder what it would have been like to live 100 years ago? Certainly, mailing a postcard while on vacation, like the one above would have been common place. In fact The […]
Mail a donut
Sweetness in the mail Now, is this not the best idea ever?! Thanks to Greetabl the first Friday in June—otherwise known as National Donut Day— you can mail a donut to a friend. Or yourself. No one would be the wiser. I say go for it! Otherwise here is a list of places that are giving […]