Like never, ever, effin never! — You’re here because you’re either nearing 50, you are 50 or you’re over 50 and you have no clue what you should be wearing anymore. Like, is there a catalogue for age appropriate clothes for 50 year olds? Who knows. Anyway, today I’m gonna tell you 10 things you should…

That one time I was speechless — I moved to Guatemala from Northern Ontario Canada in October of 2015 for many reasons with the main one being I really hate winter. Winters in my city are brutal. The last winter I lived there temps dipped down to -50C. Yup. Time to gtfo. I had been down here…

Why is there no yellow? — I moved to this little tourist town in October of 2015. Panajachel Guatemala to be exact. After doing a wee bit of research on International Living on the lake towns around Lake Atitlan I settled on this one. It had everything I needed as far as food, speciality items, pharmacies…

Never say that to a sad person — I used to be toxic positive. So much so that one of my family members completely blocked me from her life. It was a wake up call for me. Was I really that bad? You can read more about it here How My Toxic Positivity Destroyed a Relationship I’m not changing who I ammedium.com Call me naive. Accuse me of seeing life through…

Look closely — There was a weekly prompt and as usual, I missed it but I did catch a really good story from this prompt that made me want to write my own. The one I’m talking about is from Bernie Pullen. Here’s her story — What Do You See When You Look In The Mirror? In response to A Taste for Life’s Weekly challenge #7: Written prompt, “Mirror, mirror…”medium.com One thing about this story is that…

And it’s not more drugs-I found the perfect solution — I should probably get you up to speed here in case you don’t already know about my drugged out neighbour who drives me bat shit fucking crazy. You’ll need to read this article An Open Letter to My Drugged Out Neighbour Now look what you’ve done!ivaursano.medium.com In a nutshell, she’s got 4 cats and 3 dogs, the cats run all over the place…

You’ll want to start tomorrow. — Before I begin, I have to apologize for my recent cranky articles. I’ll admit, I definitely haven’t been the ‘blowing sunshine up your ass’ girl lately. The other day, after I published this I had to give myself the talk… I Have Officially Run Out of Fucks to Give Sorry about your luckivaursano.medium.com And then there was this cranky article too An Open Letter to My Unsubscriber Who Accused Me of Stealing Get off the internetivaursano.medium.com

And I know exactly why — I gotta tell ya, I have a pretty good kid. He’s responsible, mature-ish, hard working, funny, loving, you know, all the wonderful traits we all want to see in our kids. He’s 34 and I think I did pretty good job raising him. I’m proud of him. I think he…

And the results didn’t surprise me — I live in a smallish tourist town in Guatemala. Panajachel to be exact. It’s one of the dozen or so little towns around Lake Atitlan. To say it’s beautiful here is an understatement. It’s magical and breathtaking.