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A Norwegian Sheep Enjoying Summer in the Forest – Our Answer to Cee’s Photo...
Thanks to Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge -Nature Animals, Gayle is posting her favourite photo taken two summers ago when she was visiting her daughter who lives with her husband and children in Norway in...
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One Word Photo Challenge: Grey
Gayle is on a roll with photo challenges. Here is our contribution to Jennifer’s One-Word Photo Challenge. As in the previous blogged photo challenge, Gayle immediately thought of Norway, but this...
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LOCATION WRITING IN A COUNTRY RESTAURANT GARDEN
LOCATION WRITING AT FRIESEN’S COUNTRY TYME GARDEN RESTAURANT, COLDSTREAM, BC Here we are again in another lovely venue. Just Patricia, Miss P and Gayle sitting and writing in a cozy, shady corner of...
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Reblogging “Location writing has locals putting fruits of labour to paper”
This article appeared in our local newspaper, The Morning Star in Vernon, BC, on Wednesday, August 27, 2014, highlighting Gayle’s Location Writing group. Location writing has locals putting fruits...
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LOCATION WRITING AT A BEACH
Our Location Writing Group met on August 20, 2014 to do some creative writing at a beach on Okanagan Lake. Click to view slideshow. Frances, a new member of the group, created a beautiful lyrical poem...
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A History of Refuge and New Beginnings
mooremorrans:We proudly reblog this inspirational story of a good friend and a terrific organization (Lutheran World Relief) which has done so much for so many refugees. Originally posted on Voices...
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A Scorpio Versus Scorpions
The following story was written by Gayle about an unfortunate incident she experienced during her and Ian’s time living at their house in Chapala, Mexico in 2006. A Scorpio Versus Scorpions...
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And they didn’t live Happily ever after … An Alzheimer Story
Yesterday our community in Vernon, British Columbia, observed a Walk for Alzheimer Research and for those who are living with Alzheimer Disease and their families. The Ukeleles for Fun band for which I...
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BODY AND SPIRIT: LIFE’S LESSONS REINFORCED
Through the years, Gayle has shared the following with friends who are recovering from accidents or lengthy hospitalizations. Sunday she learned another friend was coping with a fractured ankle after...
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STORY INSPIRED BY A PET BIRD
The following article appeared in the Vernon Morning Star newspaper, Vernon, British Columbia, posted February 8, 2015 in the Lifestyle section. Gayle has made a few deletions and additions for...
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AN APRIL SWIM IN PARADISE
Gayle is experiencing a nostalgic evening and needing a break from visiting Ian in hospital (he is recovering well from two mini-strokes or transient aschemic attacks three days ago), preparing for a...
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2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,300 times in 2015. If it...
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2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,300 times in 2015. If it...
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Touring the Royal Canadian Mint
According to its website at mint.ca, the Royal Canadian Mint decribes its Winnipeg location as “… our high-tech, high-volume manufacturing facility. Every single Canadian circulation coin is produced...
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DECORATING OUR “FOREVERMORE HOME” WITH PICTURES AND MEMORABILIA
After two and a half months getting settled in what we have come to refer to as our “Forevermore Home” (or should that be “Forevermoore”? Nah, it leaves out the “Morrans” part of our name), Gayle is...
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Previewing “Twitterpated” As We Celebrate Our Wedding Anniversary
We’ve just closed a nostalgic celebration of our 13th wedding anniversary with a return to the site where we met in June 2003 at Grace Café on north Henderson Highway in Winnipeg. Though we were...
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Eight-year-old Gayle’s First Story: The New Puppy
Gayle has intended to post this story in the past but couldn’t readily find where she had squirreled it away in her numerous storage tubs of memorabilia. Now, after a hiatus of 67 years, it is finally...
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Your Life Is Your Story. Write Well. Edit Often.
20 Inspirational Cancer Quotes For Survivors, Fighters – Inspirational Quotes Ideas Well, we surely are editing our life’s stories at present. Cancer has reared its dreaded head and we are in the first...
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LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE and, by the way, “GET STUFFED!”
The old saying goes: Laughter is the best medicine. In addition, sometimes the strangest things can help one make, or accept, important, even life-altering, decisions. So we found out a few weeks ago....
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A Writer’s Unique Opportunity to Contribute to His Own Celebration of Life
Author Ian Moore-Morrans died on February 22, 2019. (Reference the previous blogpost containing his obituary.) Since his daughter and her husband had left for a three-week trip to Hawaii early in the...
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