Answering your questions
Answering your questions
Everything from my current social media survival strategy to staying connected to our kids to what I would tell my younger self and beyond
Hi friends,
Yesterday I posted an AMA (Ask Me Anything) call here at Field Notes as well as on my Instagram Stories and my Facebook Stories seeking your questions to help build this week’s Field Notes.
A lot of good questions rolled in - way more than I can answer in this newsletter, I’m afraid. And many of your questions were deep, introspective questions requiring a lot more thought, nuance, and time than an AMA usually provides (in the spirit of an AMA, my answers are supposed to be short and pretty off-the-cuff!). I mean, who could define why you believe in God in a sentence or two? I guess a poet could, but I’m just an over-writer who needs 2500 words to say anything.
I read all of them and I just wanted to say: thank you. Thank you for trusting me with that glimpse into so many of your deepest questions.1 Thank you for being such thoughtful and soulful people with strong curiosity and openness. It’s really remarkable that we’ve carved out a space like that here.
I know that thoughtful questions deserve thoughtful answers - or at least more than thought than a one-day turnaround! In fact, I’m likely to use some of the questions as full essay inspiration so if you don’t see your very thoughtful questions here, it could simply be that I tucked that into my drafts folder to eventually tackle with the proper respect and time - and word count! - that it deserves.2
So for today, I tried to choose a good AMA cross-section that represents a wider spectrum of questions for us that I can answer within the parameters, so let’s go.3
You asked:
What is something you wish you had known before getting married? What would you say to your younger 30 year old self?
How do you know that God loves you?
When do you feel most like yourself?
Would you ever consider making a mini YouTube series where you taught the foundations of knitting?
When your kids were little, what were your “best practices” to teach them/expose them to God/a “Christian” worldview?
What have you found most helpful to you when you feel like you've lost your spiritual footing?
How do you navigate the distracting world of social media while also not losing your soul?
What are your beliefs about hell?
You said once that you have a swearing ranking system that you would never elaborate on. This thought has lived rent-free in my head ever since. Could you pretty please explain the system?
I got a tattoo with one of my daughters about four years ago after I never thought I would. I see that you have at least one tat. Is there a special meaning behind your ink?
What have been your favourite ways to make new friends as an adult ?
When did you learn to knit? what drew you to this practice and do you find knitting to be a spiritual practice?
I’d love to know your best tips for staying connected with your kids.
How to approach the Bible with littles (i.e. preschool age) to build a healthy relationship with God, while staying away from potentially damaging OT stories about God?
What has been your favourite novel you’ve read this year??
You're Canadian, and your husband is American. Are there things associated with the other's country (habits/words/entertainment/foods/whatever) that you have picked up from each other?
I was wondering if your daughter had left for college (I think you said that was her post high school plan) and how you were doing as a mother? Any guidance for those of sending our young adults out into the world?
Do you work with individuals as a Spiritual Director?
Fellow Whovian here — what is your favorite Doctor Who moment? Be it serious, silly, simple, etc.
If you could go back in time and say anything to yourself right before you had your first kid, what would you say?
Favourite fall soup recipe?
Does Brian still hold dual citizenship and if he does, does he vote in US elections?
What are some of the best things about being in your 40s?
What got you through when your kids were tinies? Or as BBT would say, what saved your life then? (To be clear I love my littles, I’m just exhausted physically and from trying to do my best at parenting!)
Do you have any funny book recs? I need light and fluffy books these days.
All right, let’s get to your questions and my attempts at answers!
Q. What is something you wish you had known before getting married? What would you say to your younger 30 year old self?
A. In terms of what I wish I’d known before getting married, two things spring to mind. First of all: the evangelical notion that “marriage isn’t supposed to make you happy, it’s supposed to make you holy” is absolute horsesh*t. You can be both happy and holy. Stop spiritualizing being miserable and ill-suited, let alone in unhealthy toxic relationships. It can be just as holy to call it, you know?
And second, it would be that you are absolutely going to change and evolve - and so is your partner. So keep falling in love with every new version of each other. (A few months ago, I did a post about marriage and deconstruction and you can find that here.)
Now as for what I’d say to myself at thirty: I don’t know if I would have listened, to be honest. Such a know-it-all, I was. LOL But I’d want to tell that version of me to be a bit more gentle on herself and on others. You would be surprised how time changes your perspective on things. And you’re never going to regret choosing empathy, forgiveness, and compassion.
Q. How do you know that God loves you? Thanks to Jeff Chu's words during an EF conference, I've come to believe that God does love me. What I yearn for is some affirmation of this loving relationship. Are there ways that God's love for you stands out or calls to you?
A. This is such a good question - I almost want to save it as a community conversation for all of us later so don’t be surprised if it shows back up again around here. Mainly because I think the answer is often highly specific: we each experience God’s love differently. I think it’s much like with my children, I love each of them and I know that what makes them “feel” that love is very different, even if I’m doing similar things for all of them all the time. So for me, I experience God’s love in dozens of ways but often, and mostly clearly, that is within the love I experience with others. Being loved and loving people well feels as close I can get to comprehending God’s love.
Q. When do you feel most like yourself?
A. It might sound a bit dull but I love a day of puttering around in my own life. I like being home. I love being in the Calgary area, my soul feels more at rest in this part of the world. I like to have my kids all home (which means boyfriends or nieces or friends are also around). I love a long walk in the great outdoors, maybe then doing some unfussy baking. Reading a novel or some poetry. Writing for a bit - writing always makes me know myself better. A long drive maybe, we do love to listen to music and talk in the van. Even just changing sheets and picking up the house so that everything feels tidy or having good conversations with our kids, maybe calling my sister or my mum for a long phone call while I’m knitting a few rounds.
I’m a pretty quiet soul, to be honest, without a lot of need for rah-rah-go-go novelty and so I feel most like myself around my people, out in nature, and in the regular routines of our life.
Q. Would you ever consider making a mini YouTube series where you taught the foundations of knitting? I feel like I need that calming Canadian voice of yours to reassure me as I try for the fifth time how to cast on and master even the most basic knit stitch. Your favorite needles, yarn, etc. **if not, any video recommendations for a beginner?
A. I cannot fathom a world in which I would make videos voluntarily. 😂 Every time you have seen a video of me, I have hated it. So that’s a no to YouTube. I’ve heard that there are AMAZING knitting channels on YouTube but I’m afraid that I give YouTube the same treatment I give the ocean and American politics which is, “that is NOT my business.” So I don’t have any great recommendations but if anyone reading here wants to recommend a YouTube channel for knitting, please do!
And it’s such a nice thing to hear that my voice is calming! I did the audiobook for my latest book, Field Notes for the Wilderness and it was THE VERY FIRST time a publisher let me narrate one of my own books. The consensus prior to that was that my accent is too strong and distracting for most listeners. So that was lovely to hear, thank you!
Q. When your kids were little, what were your “best practices” to teach them/expose them to God/a “Christian” worldview?
A. One of my (many, many…) parenting mantras has been “it’s more caught than taught.” By which I mean that most kids learn more from how we live than what we say. So if we want our kids to care about following Jesus, then we include them in our own journey of that very thing. If we want them to value certain things or embrace certain practices, we have to embody those with them and alongside them, always inviting them to participate too.
Listen, I am never above a long heart-to-heart talk with our kids to over-communicate, but across the board, I learned to relax and completely release a lot of the heavy evangelical pressure placed on kids or raising kids. Most of that stuff just breeds resentment, inadequacy, and pressure.
Love God, love people, love your babies, be yourself, create a life you don’t want to escape from, and so on - it often goes pretty okay. For me, it was less about particular practices and more about embodying a way of life together, if that makes sense. If most of what my kids emerge from my home knowing is that they are deeply loved by us and by God, I’m pretty good. Their faith might (and currently does) look very different than my own and there is a beauty in that, too.
Q. What have you found most helpful to you when you feel like you've lost your spiritual footing. How has that worked for you? Asking for a friend....
A. Maybe this answer is rooted in my burn-out from the BIG DEMONSTRATIVE WORSHIP EXPLOSION CHARISMATIC PENTECOSTAL LIFE of previous lives. Once, I would have said things like GET IN THE WORD or GET UP EARLY TO PRAY or START A BIBLE STUDY or spartan spiritual practices designed to force something. No longer and no thank you.
So I suppose my current answers are quite an exhale. Time. Patience. Compassion especially towards myself. Good routines and habits that bring peace to my life. Reading. My family. Nature. And above all, not forcing anything. If I’m in this season of quiet or disorientation, trust that, too.
I think we are under the shadow of God’s wing for seasons: it feels like darkness but it’s just the quiet of night in the embrace of a mother. And that’s a friendly place to me now. I do find my spiritual footing in pretty ordinary rhythms. Now I tend to loosen my grip in those seasons, get a bit quieter, and turn towards where I’m experiencing love: that seems to always help me to find my feet - notice that I didn’t say “answers” - again.
Q. How do you navigate the distracting world of social media while also not losing your soul?
A. I’ve completely and quietly reset my relationship with social media over the past few years. I’m off pretty much every single app but Instagram (and my official FB page) but even there, I’m pretty careful. (Sorry, Threads, I did try.) I don’t spent much time online at all anymore. I am fiercely protective of my real-life friends and family, especially our kids. I also keep huge amounts of my life offline from raising neurodivergent kids to or my own health choices and experiences etc. And I don’t doom scroll. I have big boundaries around DMs on platforms (basically: I don’t really use them because I was drowning trying to keep up). I developed hobbies that keep me offline. I worked to build rhythms that nourished me rather than depleted me. I removed thousands of “friends” on Facebook to reduce the noise, archived most of my social media platform content from the past, and generally reduced my footprint as well as my own activity. Work-wise, I decided to pour most of my time and energy into this newsletter instead of social media and that’s been paying off with real relationships, real conversations, real connection, real readers like yourself rather than hot-takes and drive-by comments.
Sure, sometimes I feel a bit out of it or like I’m missing some cultural things but it’s done wonders for my soul health and stress levels which are very tied to my overall health management strategy. I learned the hard way that I cannot live my actual life if I’m always worked up about what some theo-bro opined on Twitter, you know? Every spectacularly bad take does not need my energy - I need it. I have so little energy that I have to spend it well, I guess. Is this part of getting older? Probably. If something consistently makes me stressed out or angry or frustrated or envious, I rethink my relationship with that thing. And listen, I know my rather intense pivot there isn’t for everyone or even an option for many diverse reasons. But for my own soul, I have to manage social media carefully and probably more strictly than most people do.
Q. I have searched the archives and can't find the post you once did (maybe years ago?) where you address questions about heaven, hell, and/or the afterlife. I would love to get to read that again, or if you could, write on that topic again.
A. Yes, I usually archive older posts, only keeping an active archive for a year or so back. But since there were so many other questions about hell etc., I just reposted the one you mentioned here from a few years ago so folks can read it.
Q. You said once that you have a swearing ranking system that you would never elaborate on. This thought has lived rent-free in my head ever since. Could you pretty please explain the system?
A. That’s a real quick no. lolol I’ll keep that in a shroud of mystery in the interest of self-preservation.
Q. I got a tattoo with one of my daughters about four years ago after I never thought I would. I see that you have at least one tat. Is there a special meaning behind your ink?
A. Congrats! Tattoos are fun. A friend of mine calls them “embodied stories” - I liked that. I actually have five tattoos and yes, there is a lot of meaning behind them. You know me and the over-spiritualizing! For instance, there’s my wild rose tattoo, for my husband Brian, rooted in the short Wendell Berry poem of the same name - plus the wild rose is the provincial flower for my home. We’ve been together a long time and so I love that line: “And I am blessed and choose again, / That which I chose before.” I also have “eshet chayil” which translates as “woman of valour” from the Hebrew in honour of my dear friend Rachel Held Evans who passed away in 2019. I got that in Chattanooga, just hours before her funeral.
Q. What have been your favourite ways to make new friends as an adult ? (When in a new community etc)
A. I’m probably not the best person to answer this as I have low friendship needs. I’m an introvert and a homebody with a big, noisy family so I often feel like my needs are well met (even exceeded 🫠) there. Plus I often need to guard my time and energy because of chronic illness stuff, too. But whenever I’ve met new friends or built new community, it was always on purpose. Friendship seems to grow from proximity and consistency. So for me, I joined church or community organizing stuff and just worked alongside folks to find friends. Something about having a job to do together makes building relationships easier? For instance, when we moved to a new city when my kids were little, I signed up at our new church to bring meals to new mums at church which is how I met lots of people, served on a team that gave me a starting point for friendship, and hung out enough with folks that I felt comfortable approaching someone for coffee sometime. I know church isn’t for everyone and I’ve also found that in political organizing, community work, and even knitting shop classes. That’s my little hack for meeting people: join something and just get to work together.
Q. When did you learn to knit? what drew you to this practice and do you find knitting to be a spiritual practice?
A. I learned to knit sixteen years ago just after the birth of my second child. I had always loved the craft but thought it was way more complicated than it turned out to be. I signed up for a course at a local hole-in-the-wall shop where an elderly lady patiently taught me and my then-pregnant sister to knit (never wonder if my sister loves me: she sat on a folding chair with needles in her hands during the WINTER while heavily pregnant because I wanted to learn to knit. Bless her.) I have always been drawn to the work of our grandmothers and grandmothers - I think it’s the feminist in me that wants to honour and reclaim the traditionally feminine work as a choice of empowerment. I also think it’s very beautiful and useful, too. It’s done wonders for my soul. So it is absolutely a spiritual practice. (I keep working on an essay about this, but it’s slow going to explain.) There is something about the repetition coupled with creativity, the steadiness, maybe the one-stitch-at-a-time-ness of it that grounds me.
Q. I’d love to know your best tips for staying connected with your kids.
A. When they were littler, it was a bit easier for sure. My dad always says that kids spell love “T-I-M-E” and that’s pretty true in my experience. Now they’re all so busy with rich lives of their own! Just being together and keeping the doors open for them to walk through for conversation is a big part of our life. I love being their Person but that’s something to earn with presence, steadiness, love, and consistency.
One thing I’ve found helpful is to look for ways to connect that are fun for them or to do for fun together. I always say, “Love what they love” (more mantras! never enough mantras in our family!) so I listen to the music artists they like or read books they loved, as an example. When Joe had a big Simon & Garfunkel stage, I listened to all the albums and had serious conversations about lyricism and technique with him (he did lose me when he found heavy metal but I promise, I tried!) When Evelynn went all in Taylor Swift, well, guess who became a Mother-Swiftie ready with the latest Reels of concert footage for her to see? When Anne was reading the Percy Jackson series years ago, I powered through five of the books so we could talk about them. Whatever and whomever they love, love that too and it goes a long ways to getting them talking. And once they start talking, they often keep talking. And that’s what I want.
Q. How to approach the Bible with littles (i.e. preschool age) to build a healthy relationship with God, while staying away from potentially damaging OT stories about God? For example, Abraham going to sacrifice Isaac or how to approach the Creation story without taking it literally?
A. For what it’s worth, I didn’t read Old Testament stuff with my kids at that age. My kids were way too sensitive - and I was way too in the weeds of deconstruction. We focused on stories about Jesus and how Jesus teaches us to be in the world. Lots of reminders making sure they felt loved by God, just as they are. Spoke of God as love, Jesus as a friend. Talked a lot about loving people well and looked for ways they could embody that with us. There are a lot more resources for children to learn about the Bible specifically including from our buddy Pete Enns’ Telling God’s Story, but I have been recommending Meredith Anne Miller’s book Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn’t Have to Heal From (isn’t that a subtitle??) to folks for the bigger picture of raising kids within faith in a way that is healthy.
Q. What has been your favorite novel you’ve read this year??
A. So many good novels lately! (Here’s the most recent book corner if you want to take a peek.) My favourite one so far this year is a tie between Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck and Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Q. You're Canadian, and your husband is American. Are there things associated with the other's country (habits/words/entertainment/foods/whatever) that you have picked up from each other?
A. Absolutely. I think Brian is probably the most integrated out of all of us: he emigrated to Canada in 2005 so it’s almost twenty years for him now whereas I only lived in the States for eight years. His accent is a mix of American midwest with Canada influences (his American friends say he “sounds Canadian” and yet Canadians peg him as American in less than five minutes, so go figure). He loves a lot of the stereotypical Canadian things like hockey, lake life, mountain hiking, and Nanaimo bars. He’s even a big fan of the CBC shows with me. I think the big changes for him is his passion for universal healthcare and our value on stability/security/good government rather than the life/liberty/pursuit of happiness thing. One thing that always makes us laugh though is how he’s still SO American in his conversation topics: like, he’ll easily ask people questions about money or politics or religion which we, as Canadians, DO NOT usually do. So maybe that’s another thing I picked up from him: being more open and honest about politics and religion!
I love American tex-mex, fast food, and proper barbeque. I also really love Americana and country music. I also love that uniquely American swagger, you know? - even if I could never.
Q. Just last night I opened "The Making of Biblical Womanhood" and her introduction said she didn't know you personally but found one of your books really supportive and meaningful. What is it like for you when something like that happens? I gave a little cheer.
A. Ah, yes, love that book! Dr. Beth Allison Barr is the real deal and it’s so, so good. But yes, every time I love when that happens. It never ever gets old. I don’t think I’ll ever get over it or be chill about it. Knowing that your work mattered to someone is so beautiful. I cherish it, every single time.
Q. I was wondering if your daughter had left for college (I think you said that was her post high school plan) and how you were doing as a mother? Any guidance for those of sending our young adults out into the world?
A. Our eldest starts university this fall, yes, but she’ll be living at home. A lot of Canadian kids do tend to stay home for undergrad (not all of course, but I was definitely the anomaly when I went far away for university). So she’ll live at home and start at a local university, studying biology/kinesiology. I confess I was very relieved by her choice: I wasn’t quite ready for her to move out yet so that’s still looming. Instead we get to have the fun of navigating the new world of Young Adult at Home.
And I don’t think I have much guidance as I’m still very much in the thick of navigating this new world myself! I’ll give it a few years and a few more kids launched before I dare to dispense any advice there. The jury’s still out.
Q. Do you work with individuals as a Spiritual Director?
A. Nope, I’m not a spiritual director. And if you’re looking for one, I highly recommend making sure you have someone who is actually certified and trained rather than self-anointed. I often point people towards Anam Cara Ministries to learn more. I love spiritual directors but I know my own lane.
Q. Fellow Whovian here — what is your favorite Doctor Who moment? Be it serious, silly, simple, etc.
A. I have dozens, literally dozens. I love the silly ones, the fun ones, but I’m always going to choose the big monologues. And the first one that springs to mind is at the very end of the Twelfth Doctor’s tenure in an episode called The Doctor Falls. That speech lays me out every single time. (This is yet another reason why Peter Capaldi is firmly “my” doctor.)
“Winning? Is that what you think it's about? I'm not trying to win. I'm not doing this because I want to beat someone, or because I hate someone, or because, because I want to blame someone. It's not because it's fun and God knows it's not because it's easy. It's not even because it works, because it hardly ever does. I do what I do, because it's right! Because it's decent! And above all, it's kind. It's just that. Just kind.
If I run away today, good people will die. If I stand and fight, some of them might live. Maybe not many, maybe not for long. Hey, you know, maybe there's no point in any of this at all, but it's the best I can do, so I'm going to do it. And I will stand here doing it till it kills me. You're going to die too, some day. How will that be? Have you thought about it? What would you die for? Who I am is where I stand. Where I stand, is where I fall. Stand with me. These people are terrified. Maybe we can help, a little. Why not, just at the end, just be kind?”
That line: “It’s the best I can do so I’m going to do it” lives in my head, rent-free.
Q. If you are willing, please share the ages and school grades of your kiddos.
A. Anne is eighteen and headed to university. Joe is sixteen and in grade 11. Evelynn is thirteen and in grade 8. And our youngest Margaret is just nine and off to grade 4.
Q. If you could go back in time and say anything to yourself right before you had your first kid, what would you say?
A. The first thought that jumped into my head was to warn my own self about how fast it goes. Because God, I miss the babies, the tinies, the kid stages for each of our children so much sometimes. I love who they are now and I’ve loved every stage but wow, it went so much faster than I thought it could during those early years. That feels particularly true right now as our eldest graduated high school and turned eighteen. It just went so fast. (Related: this post.)
But I know that’s a cliche answer that doesn’t serve new mums in the trenches well. So upon further reflection, I think I’d want to tell her to trust herself. To trust her instincts, trust her love for her kids, and to trust the Spirit leading her. You can crowdsource until you perish of it but there is nothing like honouring your own knowing and being lead by your own vast universe of love for your kids.
Q. Favourite fall soup recipe?
A. No surprise, I absolutely adore soup/stew season. One of our favourites - long time readers know this because I share it every autumn! - always in heavy rotation is my beloved friend Kelly Gordon’s Lasanga Soup.
Q. Does Brian still hold dual citizenship and if he does, does he vote in US elections?
A. Yes and yes. He has dual citizenship and our kids are eligible for that as well (but I have no status in the States myself). It is a “not my circus, not my monkeys” situation.
Q. What are some of the best things about being in your 40s?
A. So I’m 45 now and I feel so much more like Me. The real me, who was always there but maybe needed a few decades to re-emerge. It’s like I’ve integrated all the versions of myself into this era. I like the steadiness in my heart of knowing who I am and genuinely liking that person. I also feel less panicky about missing out: I’m satisfied and content in a way that I wasn’t in my twenties and thirties. I like what I like, too - I no longer feel the need to go along to get along, you know? I just am who I am (overly earnest, sincere, tender-hearted, calm, hopeful, curious, snarky, sometimes petty, filled with wonder, lover of small joys, easily happy etc.) I’ve made peace with the fact I won’t change the world but neither will the world change me,4 and I am good with that.
Q. What got you through when your kids were tinies? Or as BBT would say, what saved your life then? (To be clear I love my littles, I’m just exhausted physically and from trying to do my best at parenting!)
A. I could give you a very spiritual answer here - and mean it! - but I’ll steer into something practical (for once…) since you said you were physically exhausted. Honestly, what got me through was my commitment to our family routines. I built our life around steady routines that brought out the best in all of us and the kids (mostly) thrived in that. Kids love stability, security, and happy caregivers. It makes for a calm home with clear expectations. I wasn’t a strict “scheduler” or anything - just not my style plus I was more into attachment/gentle parenting than anything else - and there were always exceptions but overall, having good routines for meals, naps, outside time, books, quiet time, etc. was huge. I also swear by early bedtimes. As in, way earlier than anyone thinks they need (my kids went to bed at 7:30 p.m. for way longer than my peers’ kids) which then meant they were well rested for the next day, sure, but also Brian and I had our evenings to rest, recharge, reconnect, and get sleep ourselves. The routines and the early bedtimes meant that we had pretty quiet, steady days without a lot of drama.5 I hope that helps!
Q. Do you have any funny book recs? I need light and fluffy books these days.
A. I’d recommend The Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman. Yes, it’s a murder mystery but it’s a cozy one without any violence or gore on the page. It’s more centred on the delightful characters and hilarious dialogue. I loved these. Also, if you want romance for the guaranteed happily-ever-after, I usually have good luck with Emily Henry’s books.
See you back here next week, pals! Thanks again for asking such great questions.
Love S.
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Most writers online exclusively get stuff like “what’s your favourite movie?” as an AMA question but you’re the kind of readers who ask about theodicy, the doctrine of hell, and specific difficult passages of Scripture! (Please never change, I love you.) I mean, we get the lighter stuff too and I love to include those as part of how we remember that we’re all human together. We’re obviously all complete people who contain multitudes!
For some of the questions, I admit that I also feel very inadequate to answer them! And so I’m thinking of how best to approach those ones in particular. I’m pretty aware that I’m not a theologian, highly educated, or an expert on much of anything so, even though I have my own opinions on some matters, I’m not quite always in a place to go seventeen points on it either. Also, I am always wary of offering specific “advice” to folks: not a therapist, not an expert, just some happy clappy mum from western Canada who overshares on the Internet, you know? So some of the answers might show up in future essays, others may be best answered by someone else and since we wanted to start featuring other writers, I’m thinking those might be good prompts for that new project too. Just lots of options…
The last AMA we had was back in April, here’s that link. AND I did share a writing/publishing focused AMA earlier in the year so if you’re interested in those topics, here’s that link for you, too.
90s Garth Brooks deep cut, those who know, KNOW.
My answer is rooted in the fact that Canada offers new parents a year of maternity leave so I was able to be home with my kids during their first year of life, one after another. I am so grateful for that policy!
Dear heavens that was fun, Sarah. And while this fellow introvert enjoys staying home in PJs and puttering about knitting and reading and dot painting on rocks….I would leave the house for you (and in fact, I have). We would look cool at the coffee shop with our knitted hat and knitted scarf and we would provide snappy responses to one another and then be wiping tears away five minutes later.
That’s what this AMA did for me. Come back to Moncton. I even moved here so easier access.
Thank you and this was a lot of fun to read the Q&A's. I had to laugh when I first saw the chalk drawings, I thought those were your answers, but oddly enough they kind of tandem some of the Q's a wee bit. This was wonderful. Answer duly noted. Blessings.