Finding Christmas

Owen, Andy & Aidan

(Sam, Zoe & Bailey missing from photo)



Well, devoted readers I have not posted a new blog since December 8th - I am going to blame it on the season, or the preparations for the pending arrival of the fat guy in the red suit. 

So all these things that we feel we MUST do, does it bring us closer to Christmas? 

I fell upon this book, "How Six Found Christmas" by Trina Schart Hyman (pub 1969) and each year it reminds me of what is really important. What is important are the three smiling fellas in the picture and the names of those listed beneath.  My husband, my three sons and my two "little girls" (dogs).  I found my Christmas yesterday as Owen performed in his first Conservatory Concert.  I wish all of you peace & happiness this holiday season - and locate a copy of this book, it will help you find your Christmas too.

I will return in 2011!  Love Vagi



Autism, Life and the Rest

Best Book 2003

On March 20, 2003 I gave birth to my second son (two of three) as this book was rising to fame, unknown to me I had a new baby, who would be diagnosed with Autism a few years later.

Is there a manual?

What do you do?

How do you cope?

We are Modern Women, we do it all - can't handle it?

This novel is pure genius into the minds of most on the spectrum and gives a much better understanding than Dustin Hoffman raking in the dough at the tables in Vegas. 

Autism is not "cookie cutter" and there is no sure cure - you just do it.  Go with your instincts and love your child - 

So my advice to all - Autism in your life or not - READ this book.  You will appreciate so much.

peace out & let us all remember someone who represented peace so well:  Mr. John Lennon.

ox Vagi 

December 6, 1989

Friends, Daughters, Mothers, Wives, Girlfriends, Lovers - Future Grandmothers

All the lovely ladies pictured above have been friends since the early 80's - we went down our own paths and eventually led our way back to each other.  We are lucky, and this day we remember, not just the women who perished this fateful day in Montreal by a lone gunman, but for women across our globe who live in fear, in poverty and in violence.  

Vagi