Our friends and family meme.. You know it's a pandemic when: – your meditation app tells you to take a series of deep breaths and you are afraid to. – the meditation app tells you to select what you’re feeling and admonishes you for picking too many emotions.  – you discuss with your partner how…

Considering we've successfully made it through our 14 day post travel quarantine period, paradise, AKA Bali, certainly seems like a dream in our distant past. I've been thinking of the food. As in restaurant menus at an affordable price. At a neighbourhood cafe these are lunches that costs an average of $2.50 Cdn.  A meal…

You know those books that randomly hop back and forward in time? The first sentences disorienting as you decipher where on the calendar it belongs? It can be annoying. No more so than arriving on a blog called Life’s a Stitch with nary a knitting project to be found. I’m going to have to do…

NOTE: This post was started prior to our return home due to the travel advisory. More Bali posts to come. What would our group have talked about without current world circumstances? Every day, as things change, as possibilities for leaving shrink, we strategize our exit/remain in place plans.  Today for distraction we chose activities with…

First up, there was great relief when M and KC were on the last flight out of Hong Kong before they closed the airport to long distance flights two nights ago. The terminal was due to close at midnight and their flight was given a special exception to fly at five minutes past! They flew…

So difficult. I lost it at the Denpasar airport, a teary mess, my mind going to terrible places. When will I see my kids again? A man, who it turns out is from our town, comforted me. We talked about the kids being in a lower risk category and it made perfect sense for us…

AKA Paradise postponed. What it feels like is Paradise Lost. Checked flights online and one was available at an additional price of $3000 for the two of us (we flew here round trip for $1000 each), but changes required a phone call. Decided to try to call the airlines at 5:00a.m., thinking there would be…

Back in Bali listening to EVA Air’s never ending on-hold music, ten bars punctuated with “Thank you for your patience…” over and over and over again. We are a living example of the definition of the word dilemma; a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more equally undesirable alternatives.…

We interrupt the regularly scheduled blog post to tell you the story of last night. The island of Ceningan is connected to the island of Lembongan by a rickety narrow yellow bridge, which can only accommodate pedestrians and scooters. I awakened in the middle of the night to what felt like the vibration of a…

From Nusa Ceningan, Indonesia    Have you ever asked that question about being stranded on a tropical island? If you could bring one thing with you what would you want on that island in the sea?    In a sense we are stranded, eight healthy Canadians unable to break through the bottleneck of the airline’s…