I Don’t Want to be A Trauma Doctor
I also don’t want to be a greedy lawyer. Or a sexist ad man or a person of nobility from 300 AC.
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Personal Life
The Name Game in a Book Title
It’s funny how life throws you curveballs. Everyone gets a difficult pitch every now and then. It’s how you handle it when you’re at bat that matters.
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No More Room for Fake Fools
The silliest of all made-up dates should come off the calendar. April Fool’s Day has no place in current society. We’ve been overtaken by genuine fools.
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Moving Up to Higher Ground – ImPort Stanley
Last weekend, my neighbour Carol and I went to an open house in our village.
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The Ultimate Donation for the Best Reason Ever: Life
Fifteen years ago – I can hardly believe it – my friend Joe Noyes died from leukemia. The story of our friendship is a long and unlikely one. (The full story is HERE.) We had a few adventures together as we tried to spread awareness about bone marrow donation. If he had found a match, he’d likely still be alive today.
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International Women’s Day – There’s Work To Do
This International Women’s Day (officially tomorrow, March 8th), let’s promise each other to make a small change. Maybe give other women the benefit of the doubt. We can decide to stop gossip about other women simply by saying, “I don’t know that to be true.” Making incremental moves can snowball. They’re a start.
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Bringing My Tumbling Self to the Party
I’ve never been a member of a political party. Over the years, and for various levels of government, I’ve voted for just about every party. I never felt that one party represented everything I believe in or want for society.
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Something New Afoot
Several years ago, I wrote a blog post about a foot-smoothing machine I called the best I’d ever used.
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The Hallmark Holiday of Love
Ah, Valentine’s Day. In a new relationship, it’s a big deal. At the end of a relationship, you just wish it didn’t exist.
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Joining the Flock at Shepherd
A while back a website owner contacted me with a proposition. That usually means it’s spam. But this was real.
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Catching the Sun and Catching Up
I don’t need to rehash the details of why Canadian patriotism has risen to an all-time high of my lifetime. If you know, you know. It was a little bit weird to be in the US as the world’s “dumbest trade war” erupted.
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California, Here I Come
Tomorrow, I’m off to California, toting a carry-on suitcase and a mixed bag of emotions.
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A Meaningful Word in Permanent Ink
When we were kids, tattoos were for ex-cons, former military, and bikers. It was a big deal to see someone with a visible tattoo and by someone I mean a man. I can’t recall ever seeing a woman with a tattoo.
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Throwing the Book (Suggestions) at You
We’re all going to read the Stephen Kings and James Pattersons and Oprah picks and the works of other best-selling authors we love. That’s a given. For me, part of the purpose of reading is the joy of discovery. Sometimes that means taking a chance on a book from someone new.
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Connecting With Our Most Experienced Port Stanlians
A couple of years ago, a year after moving to Port Stanley, I started looking around for someplace where I could volunteer.
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2025 Greetings and News
Does anyone else have the haunting strains of Zager and Evans’ only hit song in their head? 2025 is 500 years away from In the Year 2525, which went to #1 in 1969. But it can’t help but come to mind for those of us raised on pop music. This particular song was pretty dark so it cut through alongside peppy tunes of its time like Sugar, Sugar and I Can’t Get Next To You. (For a refresher, the video is at the end of this post.)
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Top 5 Fave Things About 2024
As 2024 comes to a close, I’m looking back at the year with gratitude. We keep a jar of “good things.” When something happens throughout the year we write it down and read them on New Year’s Eve. Otherwise, it’s easy to forget how much GOOD there was, even the small things, like finding a new recipe that’s a big hit.
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A Long, Long Ago Prediction That Was Wrong (Thank Goodness)
Today, I want to tell you something about myself that I’ve never spoken about to anyone that I can recall. It starts off a little bleak. Then it becomes tremendously positive and victorious. Come along, won’t you?
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