Today, I took an additional step toward my breast reconstruction surgery on September 12: a pre-op appointment at the Queensway Carleton Hospital.
This was my second visit to the Queensway Carleton Hospital in recent weeks and I was impressed, yet aga...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on August 19th, 2024
Mel and I love a taste test—pitting one product against another to find the one we like best or sampling a selection of products just for fun.
Yesterday, the taste test was barista oat drink. We love Oatly, but wanted to try a few other brands to see ...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on August 18th, 2024
My favourite finds in this week's Saturday Synopsis treasure hunt were my exchange with Nurse Kayley and a quote from Arnold Schwarzenegger about helping others.
Last year, after my bilateral mastectomy and, later, emergency surgery to remove an infe...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on August 17th, 2024
Yesterday, I reached two years on Duolingo—learning Brazilian Portuguese, refining my French and, more recently, picking up Italian.
For each milestone I reach in Duolingo, I try to share a few ideas on language learning. On this occasion, I take insp...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on August 17th, 2024
This afternoon, I attended a celebration of the 125th anniversary of the Canadian Forest Service (CFS). Now part of Natural Resources Canada, CFS traces its roots to the Forestry Dominion of Canada. That fledgling organization began life in 1899, with ...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on August 16th, 2024
Today, my husband, my mom, my sister-in-law and I traveled to Morrisburg for a day at Upper Canada Village. The photo montage below doesn't do justice to all that we saw and heard.
The highlights for me (other than getting to spend the day with famil...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on August 15th, 2024
Tonight, I learned that a woman I had befriended a year ago died yesterday of ovarian cancer after having been diagnosed with the disease in February 2023.
We first spoke in July 2023 after a friend of a friend of a friend had passed my name on to he...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on August 13th, 2024
This morning, a friend sent me a text, saying: "It's going to be an ugly day. I only got four hours of sleep last night." I empathized with them, replying: "Sorry to hear that."
But then I remembered a blog post that I had written last year about star...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on August 12th, 2024
This is the final edition in my series about conducting a life history interview with an older family member or friend. The series is based on William Fletcher's book Recording Your Family History. The first post in the series provided an introduction ...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on August 11th, 2024
Today, Chris and I met my mom and younger brother at the Merrickville Fair.
The Village of Merrickville is located 60 km southwest of Ottawa. In the 1790s, United Empire Loyalist William Merrick received a Crown grant in the area and built a saw mill...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on August 11th, 2024
