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- Years ago, not long after my father died, a friend of mine called in a favour. While I can’t even remember her name, I do […]
- Most people I know are loathe to speak of hope these days. They see the impacts of climate change and social inequities; they feel the […]
- Some of my friends are just fine. They are doing exactly what they love, making music or mentoring younger people or hiking all over the […]
- Forget the death of Bambi’s mother. The scene that riveted me in the movie Bambi was dark, tense, everyone staring at the rude little rabbit who was […]
- Growing up number six in a family with eight kids, I put a great deal of stock in fairness. There was constant jockeying for my […]
- Last weekend, in company with a large percentage of western Canada, we stopped in Revelstoke. It was a hot mess: trucks, boats, trailers everywhere; long […]
- “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be,” Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said. A whole lot of psychologists […]
- If I were to tell you the truth—the truth that I am barely willing to allow myself to know—I am almost always afraid. When I […]
- I have a lovely neighbor who likes to believe that those beer cans by the roadside blew out of the back of someone’s truck on […]
- In parts of rural Britain, sheep are said to be “hefted to the land.” After hundreds of years of being herded on common land, the […]