On July 22, I met with Dr. Lee, a plastic surgeon at the Queensway Carleton Hospital. This was to be a routine appointment with the surgeon who would assist Dr. Zhang of The Ottawa Hospital in doing my major breast reconstruction surgery. It turned int...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on August 9th, 2024
Among the Terry Fox quotes published on The Terry Fox Foundation website is this one:
"It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others."
Terry Fox was just 18 when he started his Maratho...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on August 8th, 2024
When I arrived at The Ottawa Hospital's Cancer Centre today for my monthly blood work, most of the chairs in the sitting area of the laboratory were taken. I spotted two empty chairs that were just outside the sitting area yet close enough for me to he...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on August 7th, 2024
When my mom was in grade 8 in Clarence Creek, she wrote her catechism exam, which tested students' knowledge of the doctrine of the Catholic Church.
Some time later, when the rankings of the various students throughout the parish of Ste Félicité were...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on August 7th, 2024
Today, I listened to a recent episode of the BBC's Desert Island Discs: an interview with actor and comedian Rob Delaney. In response to host Lauren Laverne's question about whether he's disciplined when he sits down to write, Delaney says:
I would sa...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on August 6th, 2024
Today is our 4th wedding anniversary. Chris and I got married on this day four years ago.
We had already been together for 30 years at that point. We had had a son, bought a house in the suburbs, had a daughter, adopted a cat and a dog, put our kids ...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on August 5th, 2024
Today, Chris and I visited the Canadian War Museum, our third visit since we purchased a year's membership to that museum and the Canadian Museum of History at the beginning of July.
On today's visit to the War Museum, we took in its special exhibiti...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on August 3rd, 2024
Today, this month's edition of Food Network Magazine landed in the magazine rack of my Libby e-reader, courtesy of the Ottawa Public Library. One article—"Let's Talk School Lunch"—asked eight chefs for their answer to a series of questions about school...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on August 3rd, 2024
In his weekly newsletter from today, Atomic Habits author James Clear suggested this as a way of getting better at saying no:
Keep a list of things you say no to. Whenever you ignore a distraction or turn down an opportunity, add it to the list. As th...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on August 1st, 2024
Today, Chris and I went to the Canadian Museum of History—our first visit there in 20 or more years.
Our primary destination was the special exhibit called the First Royals of Europe. The Museum's website describes it this way:
First Royals of Europe...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on July 31st, 2024
