Canada Day– July 1st, the celebration of the confederation of the first four provinces in 1867 — has always been a problematic day for many Canadians. Chinese-Canadians, for example, have referred to it as Humiliation…
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A week ago, we were at our son and daughter-in-law’s house in a city across the Salish Sea where the weather was just heating up, still pleasantly. . . . Trying to resolve some marital…
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Sorry for the “radio silence,” but we were finally able to visit our son’s family on Vancouver Island. Ten months since our last visit . . . . All the feels, as the kids say …
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As I wrote last post, “we had friends over for dinner the other night.” Wonderful, casual sentence we often used to toss around, right? And to be able to use it again is such a…
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Arriving at my desk this morning with my cuppa, I couldn’t help but be struck by how much it resembles my messy mind of the moment. . . You will be relieved to know that…
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