Tanya’s 2¢ (aka Blog)

I call our family ‘The Team’. This team includes my husband, my two step-children, our dog and our cat.  They are the team.  We are the team. Everybody on the team has idiosyncrasies, particularly the animals.  Sometimes I make up words, mainly because...

I have been flying on airplanes for the better part of my adult life.  And recently I have noticed what I would call 'flight defiance'.  Which is people not turning off their cell phones or other electronics and others budding in line ahead of their...

I have loved TV since I can remember.  And although I now watch and appreciate the shows I previously scoffed at my Father for watching, it is one of my vices.  Considering the others choices I think I’ve picked well. I love crap TV.  I love TV that...

I run.  I run recreationally.  I started running because it was something I could do anywhere with little equipment.  It’s always a challenge.  In the 13 years I’ve been running very few have been ‘easy’.  A recent injury changed my plan for a...

What the heck is Teadle Door Step?  That’s what my husband said when I used that phrase.  A phrase I grew up with that was used to describe the uneven cut of a piece of bread.  You know the ones that you cut that are not perfectly even?  That’s...

You know those songs, the ones that remind you of your youth…and make you smile and tap your toes or move your shoulders?  One of those was Jack & Diane by John Cougar (at that time he was John Cougar) for me.  I heard it yesterday after a frustrating...

I have been blessed in my life to have spent many a summer day at my Uncle George’s Cabin with my lifelong mate Linda.  Now I can understand how generous it was of him to let us vacation at his cabin...a lot.  My husband had a similar legacy at Caledon Lake,...

Last month my family and I attended a showing of the Pixar movie Monsters University.  Watching cartoons as an adult can be very educational, not to mention fun.  I am a BIG believer in teams; sport teams, corporate teams, event teams, family teams…all...

13%; that was my mark on my first and last computer science test in University.  Yep, 13%.  A course counsellor had directed me to it after requesting a ‘beginner computer course’; admittedly it was a new language and I felt way out of my realm.  I...

Well, I’ve had a first blog, so that makes this #2.  Second, next, not the first.  #2 is not always bad, the 2IC can be a better position that the ‘In Charge’ one, the second child, second gold medal…all perfectly good.  This #2 is a thank you, a thank...