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To make the soup, I sauteed one onion in some olive oil, 2 garlic cloves, 3 celery stalks, 3 carrots, some leftover rotisserie chicken. I then added the strained bone broth, one bunch of flat leaf Italian parsley, salt pepper, and some crushed ground chili flakes.

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No recipe, but here is what I did. I used an Instapot to make chicken bone broth. I used two chicken carcasses, parsley stems, bay leaves, a few carrots, a fee celery stalks, one onion, pepper & salt. I had it on the pressure cook setting for one & a half hours.

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I’m currently bent awkwardly, which is why I’m still awake.

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It’s 2 am and Lucy is sleeping across the end of the bed. She’s so comfortable that I don’t have the heart to move her.

This is me choosing to chase mine. ❤️ Stay tuned…

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I’m going to follow the opportunities that excite me. I’m going to explore some dreams I’ve put on the shelf. And I’m going to believe in myself enough to see where they can take me. Maybe the dream changes as we get older. Maybe we finally get brave enough to chase it.

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I want to create something new. Something that brings together my experience, my passions, my curiosity and the things I genuinely care about. At 53, I have nothing left to prove—but I still have plenty I want to do. So I’m going to take some chances.

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It’s about the things I’ve always wanted to do. The ideas I’ve had but never pursued. The possibilities that excite me. The work that makes me curious and gets me out of bed wanting to build something. I’m not interested in simply recreating the career I’ve already had.

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At 53, I’ve realized something: it’s never too late to follow your dreams. For a long time, I thought a career was about finding the next opportunity, taking the next step and building something that made sense on paper. But maybe this next chapter is supposed to be about something more.

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Sexual violence is something we need to talk about—not just when it makes the news, but all year long. One of the ways we can make a difference is by learning more, supporting survivors, and supporting the organizations doing this work every day. That’s why I’m asking you to do two things:

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It’s delicious! One of my favourites to make.

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Willy Skinner @willygrant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Chicken vegetable soup made from scratch.

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Feels like Fall. I’m simmering a big batch of black bean chilli.

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If you receive a message asking you to participate in sexual violence, you don’t laugh. You don’t forward it. You don’t show up. You intervene. You report it. You protect the person being targeted.

The bear would not text 57 other bears and invite them to rape someone. Read that again. The bear doesn’t need a group chat. It doesn’t need 57 other bears to validate what it’s about to do. Accountability cannot stop with the person who commits the assault.

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Today, we remember the children.  We honour the survivors.  We acknowledge the families and communities who continue to carry this history. We remember. We listen. We learn. And we keep doing the work.

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Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Listen to survivors. Learn about residential schools and the children who never came home. Understand the intergenerational impacts. Recognize that reconciliation isn’t something we accomplish with one day of awareness each year.

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And families who have to live with those decisions long after the conversation online has moved on.

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You can support MAID. You can oppose it. You can have complicated feelings about it. But whatever position you take, I believe we owe people the truth. Because behind every debate about MAID are people. People who are suffering.  People who are making impossible decisions.  People who love them.

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But I do think firsthand experience matters. So I want to share what I learned—not to tell anyone what they should believe about MAID, but to help separate what actually happens from what people are claiming happens online.

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I know what it feels like to sit beside someone you love while they make one of the most profound decisions a person can make. I also know that my experience is just that—my experience. It doesn’t make me an expert on every aspect of MAID, and it doesn’t mean everyone’s circumstances are the same.

My late husband chose medical assistance in dying. I was there through the process—from the conversations and assessments to the safeguards, the waiting, the preparation and, ultimately, the moment when he died.

Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of misinformation about MAID online. Claims about what the process looks like, who can access it, what safeguards exist and how decisions are made. For me, this isn’t an abstract debate. It isn’t a political talking point. It’s part of my life.

My late husband chose the day he would die. And I was beside him when that day came. That sentence is incredibly difficult to write. But it’s also why I feel compelled to say something.

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