Category: everyday life

• my sister and me

  

  My previous blog post, I addressed to my sister, Jennifer, in April, after I found out she had been missing since February of this year. My blog has been quiet since then, other than my update to the previous post to provide a link to the first news story about my missing sister, which came…

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  Johanne Provençal

  8 Aug 2025

  everyday life

  Jennifer Boulding, Jennifer Provencal, missing person

• my sister is missing

  

  Update November 16, 2025 — I have made a dedicated website called, “for-Jennifer-Provençal” to summarize timelines, key info, media coverage, community involvement, the launch of a monthly “Jennifer’s tea” and to provide links to a GofFundMe and missing person page for my sister. Update November 11, 2025 — sharing Kristen Robinson’s continued coverage on Global…

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  Johanne Provençal

  25 Apr 2025

  everyday life

  British Columbia, Jennifer Provençal, missing person

• call me a fool 

  

  The things that are lost in translation. Or just lost on me. So many things. I wasn’t sure if my daughter was kidding, or what, when she said that I should use a photo of a fish for an April Fool’s Day post. Sure enough, poisson d’avril, celebrated on April 1st (in France, primarily) is…

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  Johanne Provençal

  1 Apr 2025

  events & festivals, everyday life

  April fools’ Day, poisson d’avril