Hi, I’m Trish… and I’m really glad you stopped by. 
I started this personal blog years ago as my digital scrapbook… a place to collect my favourite recipes, meaningful quotes, and those “hard-to-find” software fixes that always seem to disappear when you need them most.
My online journey began long before blogging was a thing.
Back in the 1990s, I founded Canada’s Family History News, a national genealogy newsletter that ran for over five years and was even featured in the May 21, 1997 edition of the Toronto Sun newspaper.
That feature… titled “Digging Up Your Roots” …remains one of my proudest moments.
It captured the early excitement of using technology to connect families across Canada who were tracing their roots long before social media made it easy.
The website shown in that article was my first big web project… proudly built with HTML tables (because CSS didn’t exist yet).
Looking at it today makes me laugh… but at the time, it was cutting-edge!
My passion for genealogy inspired me to learn Desktop Publishing, with the goal of publishing my own research.
I enrolled in an NRI course from Washington, D.C., and became the first (and a Canadian) student to graduate in Desktop Publishing… with Highest Honors.
That achievement still makes me smile.
Although Canada’s Family History News stopped publication in 2000, the curiosity that fueled it never left.
Over time, this blog evolved into a place where I share personal stories, lessons learned, and everyday experiences… from several of my fur-babie’s health journeys to practical posts on technology, health, and life’s small victories.
Every story I write has the same goal: to help someone else avoid the struggles I’ve already faced and to make life a little easier… or at least more understandable.
If you’d like to join the conversation, please feel free to comment on any of my posts.
I read every comment and love connecting with readers who enjoy learning, reflecting, and helping others, too.
Need Help With Technical Website Issues?
When I’m not writing here, I help business owners improve their online visibility through website design and content strategy.
If that’s something you need help with, you can visit my business website, eParrs.com.
One of my favourite sayings at Parr’s Publishing has always been:
“Helping you is my first priority… because when you succeed, I succeed.”