You know those haggard looking women, a toddler or two in tow, who talk half to themselves and half to their children?  You see them wandering grocery store aisles at weird times of day, like say, 7 am. I have officially joined their ranks! Did you know that if you do your grocery shopping at [...]

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You see that kiss?  That’s romance!  Romance curls your toes!  It makes you stammer and look like an idiot.  And it’s the best thing in the world. Romance is a delicate balance.  Chemistry is a must, but sometimes chemistry is not enough!  While it might contribute to a meeting or two, chemistry can’t make the [...]

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Some vacations are great! You fly somewhere exotic and rest on beaches.  Other vacations are good for building memories, but involve an overstuffed station wagon and raw nerves. I am on a self-imposed writing vacation.  This is a vacation from writing, to clarify.  It’s necessary, because after finishing a first draft I need to get [...]

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I discovered something recently… you know how when you start to type thing you are searching for into Google, how a drop down menu appears with the most popular options? Well, if you start typing my name into Google, here is what happens: If you type “Patty Fro”, you get a list of options: Patty [...]

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The first book of The Hyacinth Chronicles has been released! For the moment, it won’t be on my Books page, since it isn’t on Amazon just yet, but you can pick up a copy online by clicking on the image of the book to the side.  Hyacinth Gail Pipsner is in Grade Two.  She loves [...]

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  However, for the last year, I have looked like I was.  I was starting to get afraid!  When you look six months pregnant and get the “Congratualations! When are you due?” response from strangers, you start to worry.  Especially when you are not pregnant, and are positive about that.  After going to the doctor [...]

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Every place has it’s urban legends.  Alberta has it’s own.  Most of them, I think, involve wild animals, crazy hunting stories and horrible racial stereotyping.  However, there is one more that strikes dread into the cockles of my heart….  the dreaded heating bill! This weekend has been all about winter readiness.  This is the first [...]

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We doubled our floor space when we moved into this apartment, so now our new home feels absolutely, echoingly massive to me!  That’s got to be the first time a two bedroom apartment has had that effect on anyone, but when you had a family of three living in a one bedroom apartment that was [...]

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