Author Archives: Susanne Matthews

To all my friends and family who celebrate, have a wonderful Easter.

It’s Saturday, although since I’m retired, one might say that every day is Saturday. The truth of it is, more days are like Mondays. Just because I don’t go out to work doesn’t mean I don’t have things to do, some of them more pleasant that others. The problem is that when I want toContinue reading “Day 4 of the 2026 A to Z Blog Challenge with the letter D”

Good morning! Contrary to my chosen meme for this morning, it’s going to be 20 C at some point today although it’ll rain all day, too, before plunging back to the negatives and snow Sunday night. The joy of spring in Eastern Canada when Mother Nature realizes that all of her warm weather clothes haveContinue reading “Day 3 of the 2026 A to Z Blogging Challenge for the letter C”

Here we are, Day 2 and I’m still here. This is the week leading up to Easter and my eldest son is home for the holiday. At 53, he’s not a kid anymore and having him home means a bit more work for me. He has very few friends left in town, and so weContinue reading “2026 Blogging A to Z Challenge Day 2”

Welcome to April 2026. As I have the last ten years or so, I’m participating in the A to Z Challenge, so if that’s what you’re looking for this morning, scroll down. It went live before this post. In some countries, including mine, the first day of April is called April Fools Day where peopleContinue reading “April 2026 IWSG Monthly Blog Post”

As someone once said, today is the first day of the rest of your life. In this case, it’s the first day of April, a Wednesday, and the first day of the 2026 A to Z Blogging Challenge. This year, my theme is essentially journaling with an emphasis on memes that shape our lives. SinceContinue reading “2026 A to Z Challenge Blog: Day 1”

Welcome to the last post of March 2026. Hope this week will be a pleasant one. Spring is lurking around somewhere. Fingers crossed that she gets the nerve to come out soon! This week, the authors of Tuesday Tales are writing to the word prompt VICTOR. I’m continuing with my cozy mystery, The Case ofContinue reading “Tuesday Tales: Fromthe Word VICTOR”

Welcome to this week’s Tuesday Tales. Spring has sprung–or at least it’s trying to do so, but Father Winter doesn’t appear to be ready to leave. This week, the authors from Tuesday Tales are still plugging away at their stories. I couldn’t keep you guessing too long, stress isn’t all that great, so today, you’llContinue reading “Tuesday Tales:From the Word SPRING”

Happy St Patrick’s Day, the one day of the year when we all wear green, eat stew or corned beef and cabbage, drink green beer, and pretend that we all have Irish roots. Spring arrives on Friday! Yes. I’ll just pretend the dirty snow is sand and take it from there. This week, the authorsContinue reading “Tuesday Tales: From the Word SILLY”