I was always a bit of a Grandpa’s girl. I’m not sure exactly why. Maybe it was because I loved sitting at his side and listening to hunting stories. When I was 11, I actually started trying to write them down with the intent of making them into […]
This is Team Augustine We all have our uses. When family or friends need help with their taxes, financial advice or someone to pour out their troubles and be completely assured of understanding and confidentiality, they ring my husband. (Hey, I blog – most everyone knows I can’t be […]
The first time I heard the surname “Augustine,” I thought it was about the prettiest name I had ever heard. Little did I know that it would one day become my own. And even less did I know, once I married my Augustine nearly 3 decades ago, where […]
It was a pretty well-known fact on Grand Street that June’s house had the prettiest lilac bush anywhere. In May, its boughs were practically crushed beneath the weight of enormous, fragrant, purple blooms. Even in summers with no rain, while the neighbours’ own lilacs were reduced to shriveled […]
These are the things that run through my mind at 4 a.m. When I became a mum in the mid-80’s, I was suddenly endowed with this amazing intuition, spider sense, third eye, whatever you want to call it. It was that little thing inside a mum that snaps […]
Hello, my lovelies! And how sweet of you to drop by and join us here. Settle in and make yourself at home with a little comedy, minimal drama, plenty of sarcasm, and a splash of fiction thrown in just to keep y'all on your toes... Welcome!
