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All Part of the “Plan”

All Part of the “Plan”

My theory is that we get to choose what we plan to learn in the lifetime we’re given.  We’re handed a little clip board, one of those tiny golf pencils, a piece of paper, and we check off the lesson boxes.  I checked off:  “Unconditional Love”, “Adventure”,...
Let Your Light Outshine Your Fear

Let Your Light Outshine Your Fear

Olive Kay was a depression era single mother with a grade three education when she was abandoned by her alcoholic husband and began cooking for farmhands in the Prairie dustbowl. Decades later, when the Quebec Chronicle newspaper advertised for a “Women’s Editor”, she...
Hope Always Survives

Hope Always Survives

I equated being homeless for a year as somewhat like winning a Powerball lottery; it was sudden and somewhat unexpected – I mean, I knew it could happen, but I didn’t really think it would. It was totally life-changing, in both good and bad ways. And, it taught me...

A Rose By Any Other Name

I’ve always been a little uncomfortable with my name. Officially, it is Maria Rosario, but everyone knows me as Rosie. Born in Canada in a place where the majority of people I knew had English names, I thought mine sounded w-a-a-y-y too ethnic. I felt that my...