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Why I Am Grateful to Fort McMurray
Reflecting on the year 2012, I am most happy to have completed one full summer in Fort McMurray. This is the first chapter in, what I have chosen to call, “My Temporary Lifestyle.”…
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The Empty Nest North
I am becoming a woman I can’t see. I am an empty nester and in, what experts would call, transition. You know, that period where one changes from one state or condition to…
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So Long, 2_05
The air’s fall scent, nature’s aromatic spice, is undeniable. The long shadows of the season protect the last hardy flowers. The refreshing chill that lingers into the afternoon tells me my time in…
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Like It or Not (What I Have Noticed About Fort McMurray)
I am coming up to the two-month mark on my life in Fort McMurray. Sometimes, I think that being new in town, and knowing no one, offers that anonymity that allows one to…
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Those are Some Mosquitoes!
“Mosquitoes,” they all warned. “You are going to Fort McMurray, you had better go prepared,” they said. At my office going away party, one of my clients gifted me a can of “Ben’s…
