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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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