For international Pain Awareness Month, I decided to share a very personal story today with my former colleagues and workplace contacts over on LinkedIn. Although most of these folks know that I have a rare disease, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), they don’t know exactly Read More …
Today is the start of international Pain Awareness Month, which will always have something of a local connection for me as a proud Montréaler and Canadian. Why? Because the international Declaration of Montréal (1) was signed right here in my hometown. This September marks the Read More …
Back in March I decided to design my own version of a two-layer cotton face mask, because I wasn’t happy with any of the masks I’d sewn using the patterns that were being recommended by hospitals and governments in Europe and the US. Those masks Read More …
It’s been a little while since I’ve updated the blog, because I’m still slogging away on another little project. I started out planning to sew a couple of cotton face masks for me and my husband, despite having a mild cognitive impairment. And a rare Read More …
This morning I rode my bicycle almost 40 km (25 miles) to and from a weekly pop-up community and farm market. Each summer Saturday morning they set up the tables and open stalls outside, on a small crescent bordering on a lake. It’s a very Read More …
Thanks so much for all of your encouragement, over on Instagram and Twitter and other social media, with my self-set creative arts challenge to sew eighty cloth masks to gift to my extended family. That may not sound like much of a challenge, but it Read More …
