Friday, July 21, 2023

MORE THAN JUST THE WHITMORE

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School. Love it or hate it, most of us have 'been there, done that'. In my hometown, the Whitmore School on 6th Ave SW felt like an ...
Monday, May 29, 2023

SWEATY SOCKS, GOLF BALLS AND FISH LIPS: My Formative Middle School Years

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Being a part of a hometown Facebook group can be an adventure. I've recently been seeing oldy mouldy yearbook pages from the 70's be...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

THE CAT DIDN'T COME BACK

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Some people cannot cry at funerals. Rather than finding this abnormal or unfeeling, I understand perfectly. Not that this is my issue... eve...
Monday, May 10, 2021

Life Before Social Media (or: How I Spent My Youth in a Tiny Prairie Town)

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  One would be correct in believing the  FB page "The Good Old Days of Dauphin" has got my sister Rhonda (Buchy) and I talking a...
Friday, May 7, 2021

CELEBRITIES TURNING 60 THIS YEAR and why it's really fucking up my day

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Meg Ryan. George Clooney. Ricky Gervais. Heather Locklear. Peter Jackson. Obama. Gretzky. FREAKIN' NADIA COMENICI ! (was I really her a...
Wednesday, April 28, 2021

A RADIO LOVE AFFAIR: the rekindling of an old, staticky flame

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Radios. Back in youth...I'm talking the 60's and 70's...in small town rural Canada, the height of personal entertainment was th...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

IN TIMES OF GRIEF: How My Canadian Daughter Found Love and Support From Her Aussie Rugby Family

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  I am Canadian and know nothing of rugby. Neither did my daughter Chantal until she married Duncan, an Aussie rugby fanatic. I knew she ha...