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  • 11 Dec
    Making Heirlooms Meaningful

    My husband has been brilliant at creating unique gifts for me throughout our fifty-year marriage. One year, when we were barely making ends meet, he...

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  • 05 Oct
    The Magic of Madame Chic

    My husband and I follow a daily schedule filled with delightful moments. This way, we are sure to experience the best of life. Each day, we converse...

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  • 09 Sep
    Welcome to Glamour for Grandmothers

    In the late nineteen fifties, I was ill with scarlet fever. My temperature was alarmingly high, and my mother was worried. I was in and out of a...

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  • 27 Feb
    Happy Leap Day, 2020

    Each Leap Year has an extra day added to the calendar to synchronize it with the seasons. Babies born on February 29th are considered Leaplings....

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  • 10 Feb
    The Secrets of My Writing Box

    On Valentine’s Day, 2018, I wrote an email to a friend of mine thanking him for transforming a wooden box, originally for silverware, into the...

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  • 29 Oct
    Halloween - Over the Decades

    Halloween is here, again, and my brain seems haunted by past Octobers…MUAHAHA!  I remember going out to collect Halloween treats as a...

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  • 05 Sep
    Remembering Romance Comics

    In the early sixties, I often walked home from school with Gordie, the boy I married a few years later. We would part ways at his family drug store,...

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  • 05 Jul
    Transplanting Grandpa John

    In the late afternoon, on the chaotic day that my father-in-law died, this fig tree came into our lives, offering joy, laughter, and friendship....

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  • 04 Jun
    The Autograph Project

    The Autograph Project was introduced in November of 2018 when I enthusiastically donated 30 autograph books to a class of grade four students. I have...

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  • 28 Mar
    Dear Bloomex, Something Went Wrong

    Almost a year ago, I received a sympathy bouquet from a dear friend in another province. She and her husband had ordered from a company called...

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  • 21 Nov
    Breakfast Tea

    I remember, vividly, being thirteen. Gord, the boy, Haddock had given me an ID bracelet for my thirteenth birthday. It had my name on it but opened...

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  • 25 Jul
    Before Google, there was The Universal Handbook

    This leather-bound book, published in 1938, was always on the coffee table in my mother-in-law’s home. Towards the end of her 98 years on the...

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  • 18 Nov
    Do Traditions Have an Expiry Date?

    For forty years, at our house, we have celebrated Sadie Hawkins Day, albeit on the wrong day. Every February 29th, we created a Sadie Hawkins party....

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  • 25 Feb
    My Erroneous Leap Year Tradition

      In 1980, in small-town Saskatchewan, I decided to celebrate February 29, as the gift it was, a once-in-four-years bonus day. At the time, I...

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  • 15 Oct
    Smoking Hot, But Still Smoke-Free

      My husband and I met when we were twelve years old, and, unbeknownst to me, he was already smoking cigarettes. I have known him for six...

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  • 17 Sep
    I Miss My Mother-in-law

      My mother-in-law has been experiencing excruciating pain in her mid-to-lower back. She can barely walk, and, at ninety-five, her entire body...

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  • 19 Feb
    Love and Entrepreneurism

      My husband and I met when we were twelve, married when we were twenty-one, and recently celebrated our forty-fourth wedding anniversary. We...

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  • 11 Aug
    See and Be Seen

    "See and Be Seen" was first published in From the Cookie Jar on August 11, 2014 @Get a Bigger Wagon. This summer, I have spent many hours with my...

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  • 27 Jan
    The Power of the Human Voice

      Maya Angelou once said, “Do read to someone. When words are infused by the human voice, they come alive.” I’ve experienced this first...

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  • 24 Nov
    My Gratitude Jar

    One morning this week I sat in the dark, at the computer, with tears streaming down my cheeks. Christmas music was playing softly, and I began to...

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  • 13 Nov
    The Mare's Egg

    As your Halloween pumpkins begin to decay, see if you can find a copy of a colourful storybook called The Mare’s Egg. While growing up, my children...

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  • 18 Oct
    My Kitchen is as Personal as my Underwear

    I love to entertain in my home, but I am a bit possessive about my kitchen. I consider my kitchen to be as personal as my underwear. My kitchen...

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  • 23 Jul
    What if Future Generations Don't Want Your Stuff

      Like most of you, I cherish many items that once belonged to my ancestors. I also have unique pieces from my own life I'd like to share,...

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  • 03 Jul
    Autograph Albums Might Outlast Facebook

    I love to curl up in a big chair with one of our family autograph books. My late mother’s album was given to her by her sister in 1934. The...

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