Diane Pascoe

When our family moved from the Land of the Mounties to the Land of Y’all many years ago, I considered myself to be somewhat retired. My husband, Eric, whom I lovingly call Honey or Love God, considered my unemployment to be a temporary career pause—a long vacation, really. He regularly asked how my job search was going. Did I dare tell him that it was stuck in neutral, maybe even in reverse?

I had a dilemma: if I did start looking for work in my field of Human Resources, I would be forced to finish my résumé. This was difficult because I always got stuck at the part where I had to write my employment objective, as I had none. The corporate voices I had heard for twenty-five years had been silenced at last, and I was able to hear my own voice much more clearly.

I used this career pause to start writing about the funny and fascinating everyday moments in my life, events that many women have experienced and even struggled with. Observing such events through a humor lens allows me to laugh at these challenges and slip-ups, lessening my load.

Prior to relocating to Raleigh, NC in 2004 with Honey and Braden, I had grown up in London, Ontario then lived most of my adult life in Toronto, Ontario. Honey and I are now happily retired near Wilmington NC.

As I have grown older and begun writing, I have freed myself to be a better me—a wiser, more confident, funnier version of my younger, safer, unexamined self. Fat or thin, gray hair or brown hair, funny or not—I have family and friends who bring me pleasure, pride, and peace.

Life is so much better when you’re laughing!