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Next Year
Next Year, I Promise to… Lately, the Public Broadcasting System from Buffalo has been advertising a …
Realizations from My Birthday
On the morning of my 67th birthday, I realized that it was 50 years ago that I’d started Grade 13. …
Coming Out of the Closet
Each of us, as we grew up, probably had a place – whether real or imaginary – to which we went when …
Death Where is Thy Sting
The first person I lost from my life was my sister’s mother-in-law. She was such a lively person. …
Consumption and Distraction
Over 20 years ago, I moved into the first home that I bought. When I did that, I moved a great …
Choosing to Live My Life MY WAY
I’m struck by the thought of parenting as a primary delivery system to ensure that we become unable …
A Love Letter to My Mother
Lately as I’ve been watching the US Women’s Gymnastics Championships, there have been P & G …
Allergy Met a Bear — Things that Benadryl Cannot Make Better
Thanks to having had a battery of allergy tests, I know that I’ve been diagnosed as allergic to …
The 5 W’s and H
When I was an English teacher, the first unit I taught my grade 9 students was short stories. We’d …
Complex Equivalents
In Neuro Linguistic Programming, there is a concept called ‘complex equivalents’. In very general …
Failing to Thrive — Then and Now
Failure to thrive is a medical term applied to infants who are unable to gain weight and who, …