Betsy was in Calgary over the weekend! Great to see her again. We go back a long way, to Queen’s days, when we met in residence and then shared an apartment. She moved to Alberta after we did and has lived here ever since. It was so good to catch up again in person. Here’s a picture she took of the two of us - a couple of grinning fools, but with no double chins showing in this photo. I believe her new-fangled camera has an anti-double chin setting.

Amazingly, we both look exactly as we did when we graduated from Queen’s. Well, almost exactly…

I hope so! I’ll find out on Monday afternoon when I have an appointment to see the doctor. It’s seemed like a very long six weeks, and having a broken ankle has restricted my movement somewhat during that time, has especially made things tricky starting this new job on the right foot, so to speak… But it could have been a lot worse and I thank my lucky stars that this was only a simple break that caused little to no pain. A good friend recently took a severe fall and is still in hospital while the doctors determine exactly what damage has been done to cause her to be in so much pain. My heart goes out to her! I hope you recover enough to get home very soon, and that the rehabilitaion after that does not take long at all.

During the next week there will continue to be many more changes for me. I’ll move into my niece’s apartment, temporarily, while she continues to search for a new house where we can both live comfortably together. So I’ll be getting to know my furry-great-niece-and-nephew, Piper and Jack, for the first time. Plus I will be contacting and introducing myself to all of the customers in my territory - by phone at first - and meeting an author, and others who I’ll be working with in the future. Lots to do, but it’s all good, and I’m totally optimistic that everything I have left to do will fall into place when it needs to.