Susan Sowerby:  

I have lived in Montreal since 1979 and have 3 adult daughters two of whom live in Montreal and the other lives in Gananoque. I work in a hospital based EAP program as a marriage counsellor and I am a certified Imago therapist. I also do some mediation in the courts. My husband and I built our home (still needs lots of work) and have renovated 2 century old triplexs which is also an on-going process. It is great to see them return to their original beauty. Also love to travel - been to Scandinavia, all through Europe, china, Viet Nam, Hong Kong - try to go somewhere most years. For the last 5 years, I have taken up running (not quickly), working with a personal trainer and doing a personal work out 6 days/week. Unfortunately in June I tore the miniscus in my knee and this has proven to be a very slow and painful recovery - hopefully I will eventually be able to return to more of what I was doing. The biggest news is that I am now a Grandma - Ben is 22 months old and weighs in at a light 33 lbs. He looks a lot like my oldest daughter Laura. I feel like I get to revisit those days without having to stay too long. He is very sweet and gives me lots of joy. I have him every Sunday night and all day Mondays. We have just started swimming lessons and that has been a big hit. I have a wonderful little shitzu-Lasa mix named Milo who I love and adore and who loves and adores me! I have great friends who like me despite my faults. It is hard to know what to write to say what you have done for the last 40 years but overall it has been busy and gone by fast! Time really has sped by! I have been getting all these messages about reunions so I thought I should update my post. Ben is now almost 6 1/2 and we have had the wonderful addition of Anna who will turn 3 soon. Laura and her family have moved to Boston so we don't get to see them as much as we did but we try for every 6 weeks or so. That is not so difficult now that both my husband and I have retired. I retired at the end of 2016 (reluctantly) but the hospital closed my department so no choice. I am now volunteer counselling for a local non-profit and thoroughly enjoying it. Our youngest daughter just got married and now lives in Kingston. That leaves us with our middle daughter in Montreal and she has just bought her first home with her partner. It is a 1910 duplex that we are going to turn into a single family home. It is a place with "frightening potential" as they say. This project will probably take up most of my husband's "free time" for the next year. We continue to travel and I think the most memorable trip was a safari we did in Kenya - it was truly a once in a lifetime experience - 4 of us with a guide and lots of up close and personal experiences with lions; elephants, rhinos, snakes, crocodiles etc etc. Since I last commented on this profile, I have had back surgery which put me out of commission for about a year and just as I was almost back to normal I fell and broke my left wrist which I am still struggling with. I still have wonderful Milo and he keeps me sane. I/we are all turning 65 this year - sometimes I don't really feel any different than I did way back when and sometimes I feel every day of 65! Especially since my back surgery I am definitely on the "if you want...Expand for more