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Kellie Underhill is exploring arts, culture, entertainment and a healthy lifestyle in the Atlantic provinces.

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Words, Captured & Kept

Communication is easier now, but are we really communicating? Remember when words were captured & kept?

Months ago my niece was here excitedly looking through some of my old totes filled with books, movies, souvenirs, photo albums, cards, letters and other mementos that I have never organised into a proper home.

We spent a whole afternoon reading letters to each other. Most of them were from my early years in Toronto right after high school, when I was in university. I frequently got letters…

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Positive Manifestation

Just last week I was praising my old boss, speaking of goal setting exercises completed annually as a group and how I always felt like a partner, not an employee. The environment created a fierce loyalty.

Last night I dreamed I was attending a business lunch with my old work family. It was more of a boozy lunch at one of the pubs. Nearly three hours of food, drinks, and bouncing ideas off one another. I miss those kinds of lunches sometimes.

Just last week I was praising my old boss, speaking of goal setting exercises completed annually as a group and how I always felt like a partner, not an…

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Three Men

Nearly two decades ago, a psychic told me that I would have three more serious relationships in my life. Three - a writing prompt.

Nearly two decades ago, a psychic told me that I would have threemore serious relationships in my life. He gave me some physical attributes, three zodiac signs, different information. It took forever for any of it to start coming true because I was really hurt and swore off relationships and men for a long time. I was completely closed off and unavailable. And I was miserable. Then, when I…

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50 Things

One of the first steps in setting your intentions or goals for the future is to just do a brain dump by listing 50 things you want ... if money were no object, if anything was within your reach ...

One of the first steps in setting your intentions or goals for the future is to just do a brain dump by listing 50 things you want … if money were no object, if anything was within your reach … how would you spend your time? Where would you be? What would you being doing? Nothing is too outrageous. Now is the time to let all your hopes and dreams fly!

Here I go!

Travel across Canada by…

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Welcome 2019!

I brought this New Year in all by myself. Just me and a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon in front of the CBC live stream from Charlottetown. Welcome 2019!

I brought this New Year in all by myself. Just me and a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon in front of the CBC live stream from Charlottetown. It was the type of New Year’s Eve that was a decade in the making. On my terms, in my space, focused only on myself.

I intended to bring in 2009 just like that, and I was in such a better place emotionally then to do it. I remember I was so excited to…

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The Natural World

Sharing some childhood memories and reflections inspired by a writing prompt, today on my blog.

I grew up in the woods. There’s really no other way to say it. Growing up I couldn’t see any neighbours houses, just trees. As a little girl my days were spent outside in the trees playing house.

I pretended the stand of trees between my house and the lower driveway, which went out to the potato field, was my castle. It had a courtyard and a drawbridge and kitchens and sitting rooms and lavish…

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Prompt: Mirror, Mirror

New post from a writing prompt on my blog today!

“When I look in the mirror, I . . .”

. . . can’t believe the woman I’ve become. Where have the years gone? When did those little crow’s feet form in the corners of my eyes? When did I become so shapeless? Who am I now?

When you’re young older people tell you to enjoy life, to live every moment, that if you blink you might miss it. Of course when you’re young time stretches out before you.…

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New on Netflix: Good Girls

New review of original Netflix show "Good Girls" on my blog today.

I binge watched a recent addition to Netflix called Good Girls. It’s an American series starring Christina Hendricks (Mad Men, Hap & Leonard), Retta (Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, Parks & Recreation), and Mae Whitman (Parenthood, Arrested Development) as three suburban mothers who decide to take matters into their own hands and do whatever it takes to get their families out of desperate…

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2018 NB Spring Festival Scene! Where Should I Go?

I am dreaming of sunshine & planning making weekend travel plans for this spring. Sure hope you can help me on my blog today!

This year I want to go to festivals! Last year I finally got to attend the Larlee Creek Hullabalooin Perth Andover and if you know me at all or if you have been following me online since last summer you will know that it was just an epic experience! So much so that this year I am inspired to attend even more festivals that I’ve always heard about but never been able to attend and I also want to…

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Vegan-iversay

I recently marked the one year anniversary of going vegan. I'm assessing the situation on my blog today. Check it out!

On January 30th I celebrated one full year of eating a plant-based diet and about six months of being vegan. I say that because in the beginning it was just about weight loss and health for me, I hadn’t made the connection to the animals. I wasn’t consciously buying specific shampoos and conditioners because they were vegan. But that changed just before I watched the movie Earthlingsand after…

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Writing Prompts #3

I am back writing! New prompt today on my blog!

An opening line … 20 minutes … no self-editing … 3 … 2 … 1 … Write!

They say Old Weezie’s been reading palms out of her run-down shack for a hundred years or more.

Though she doesn’t look so old. I’ve been visiting her shack ever since I was a little girl and she still looks the same today as she did back then. She has one of those ageless faces, not too smooth, not really wrinkly, just tough and…

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New on Netflix: Can't Cope, Won't Cope

Watched "Can't Cope, Won't Cope" on Netflix yet? Check my blog to see why you should!

Over the weekend I noticed this new television series on Netflix called “Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope.” Yes, it’s not the greatest as titles go, but I was intrigued enough by the photographs to at least hover over it and find out what it was all about. At the time I was looking for something light and short, possibly a sitcom, that I could watch quickly while I ate my breakfast and then could go about…

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My Weekday Evening Routine

I'm sharing my weekday evening routine on my blog today. Check it out!

Last week I discussed how following a routine makes my life better and I shared my usual weekday morning routine. This week I am focused on my evening routine.

Typically Monday through Friday I get home from work between 4:45 and about 5:15 pm. I am not going to lie, usually I am super tired and really hungry. If it’s a cold day and I’ve gotten a chill at my desk in the office I will run around…

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Art Party Fundraiser

Fundraiser near and dear to my heart coming up this weekend. Check out my blog for details.

This Saturday, January 20th, there is a very important fundraiser happening at Tyra’s Infinity Centre in Douglastown to support a team of competitive dancers from Miramichi who have been invited to New York City for the Jump Convention. JUMP is the largest dance convention in the world and this is an incredible opportunity for competitive dancers from Spotlights and Sequins to workshop with some…

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Writing Prompts #2

Some more impromptu creative fiction writing on my blog today. Check it out!

An opening line, 20 minutes, no self-editing … let’s do this!

My husband disappeared on August 28, 1998.

One minute he was there, beside me browsing the stalls in the busy Farmers’ Market, and the next he wasn’t.

At first I thought he must have just popped into one of the shops nearby. Peter was like that, flighty, distracted. Something shiny would catch his eye and he would just gravitate toward…

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The Road Less Travelled

Ever wonder what if? Today on my blog I'm letting my imagination go there.

One of the biggest decisions I ever made happened in the 1990’s when I was in my early 20’s. I had a really great job at an up and coming large tech start-up in Toronto that had already made its young entrepreneur owners into millionaires but would net at least some of them even more millions before being bought by the big boys.

I was an Administrative Team Associate, which was a fancy term for…

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New on Netflix: Rotten

I started watching "Rotten" on Netflix. I'm sharing my thoughts on my blog. Check it out!

There’s a new documentary series on Netflix called “Rotten” that I started watching this week. I have only watched the first episode so far, but it was very interesting and I will definitely continue to watch more. The series is dedicated to investigating corporate corruption in the food industry. It is American based, but that doesn’t mean the same kind of stuff isn’t happening here so I think…

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