“You don’t need to be afraid of those boys, little girl!”, the kind gentleman said to me as he reached to squeeze my shoulder. But I was afraid. In fact, I was absolutely terrified. When I was only 6, “Jimmy” was my nemesis. My halcyon days in glorious James Bay were rudely interrupted by this […]
We are what we believe! I just turned sixty-three and if I believed what I read in magazines and the news about getting older, I would stop making plans, start knitting doilies and sadly await the setting sun. All the medical experts tell me that it is all downhill now as my body and mind
Glenn Close was riveting! My eyes watered as I listened to her poignant moving story about mental illness in her family. All of a sudden, Ms. Close was no longer the Hollywood legend illuminating the Silver Screen, but a fallible fellow human being dealing with a gut-wrenching issue that haunts many of our lives. But,
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Just off the coast of our peaceful seaside community, unquiet ghosts rage against the gods in the morning mist. Our wild West Coast beauty harbours a very ugly piece of human history. D’Arcy Island was a leper colony from 1891 to 1924. It housed society’s untouchables: the soiled and diseased ones – shoved away into
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Is proper communication dead? A recent email nightmare gives me cause for concern. Someone with limited communication skills decided to get very annoyed with me by email. I was flattened to see an online message full of bold red letters followed by multiple exclamation marks. It left me wondering: Have emailing, texting, tweeting and Facebook
