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  • 09 Nov
    This Purse Was Once a Coat

    I wore my red leather swing coat and matching skirt for decades, but the huge shoulder pads were out of style, and the skirt had lost its shape....

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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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  • 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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  • 13 May
    Tea for Two or Just for You

    I smile every time I walk past a display of tea-for-ones. They sit proudly, wherever you place them, their double handles making them look a bit...

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  • 20 Sep
    Small Town Treasures

    Almost everyone we meet, at home or away, knows someone we know, and it only takes a short conversation to discover the connection. Saskatchewan...

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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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  • 04 Mar
    Chain Letters Without a Curse

      My mother saved pretty boxes from chocolates, baby shoes, lingerie, and cigars. I still have some of them tucked, here and there, in my home....

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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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  • 03 Jun
    Do Bookworms Prefer Pulp Fiction?

    The other day, while dusting, I stopped to open some of my favourite old books. As always, I was fascinated by the tiny tunnels in the pages which...

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