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Time For Play
“Plenty of play in childhood makes for happy, smart adults — and keeping it up can make us smarter at any age.” – Dr. Stuart Brown, physician, clinical researcher and founder of…
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Finding Peace in Places
“I need peace in my life.” This is the silent prayer that has looped through my head for years. Ever since I was in my teens, I’ve sought out perfect spots to find…
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Don’t Worry, There’s Plenty of Love in Crete
(Sequel to Can We Go Back to Where We Fell in Love and Fall Again?) Before I travelled to Greece for the first time, I met a Greek-Canadian named Gideon who said something…
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Mother to a Son
Growing up, I didn’t know boys. My family was made up of girls – my Mom and three sisters. The lone male of the household, Dad, moved out when I was 14. As…
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Can We Go Back to Where We Fell in Love and Fall Again?
Travel back to 1978 with me, and you’ll see us on the isle of Crete looking like a couple of characters from the flashbacks in Mamma Mia. The Consultant and I had been dating…
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Spring Fever
In Calgary, we can pretty much guarantee we’ll have winter – cold, snowy or otherwise challenging. But spring? Now that’s another story. Buddy’s birthday is mid-April. Some of his birthday parties were spent…
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Do My Kids Need a Better Life Than Mine?
One evening a while back, I was sitting around with friends after a Calgary Stampeder football game when one of them said, “All we want for our kids is that they have a…
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A Valentine for Mom
Mom, it’s only been through taking the writing you left for us, transcribing it and setting photos to it, that I’ve fully grasped the magnitude of your legacy. Your family has learned so…
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Life In This Family
The sun’s refection bounces off the iced-over lake and warms my face. Any minute now, Buddy and Princess will pull up with their partners. I have tiny butterflies in my stomach. It’s the…
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A Brand New Year – I Will Be Brave
Slow as molasses in January. That’s me. (Especially on a January day like today where the temperature will be -27 C.) I like to be sure. My tendency is to “sell no wine…
