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"Why am I washing the floor after midnight?" I have asked myself this question a few times over the past half hour. The obvious answer is that I'm preparing for an open house tomorrow morning. Sheila did at least half the work before leaving for a rare overnight getaway with friends, and now that the kids are [...]
I am still haunted when I remember dragging David across the field at Dalhousie Elementary School. Maybe if I knew that he was doing okay, then I could finally let it go. But I don't. The last time I remember seeing him was during grade 12 (or was that grade 11?) when we walked home [...]
I've never found it difficult to make friends. But it took me almost thirty years to figure out how to keep them. Okay, that's not entirely true. There are a lot of people I consider to be friends, and if you asked them about me they might say the same. Other than the fact that [...]
"What's on your bucket list?" I've heard it a thousand times, and for most of those enquiries I struggled to provide an answer. But I don't anymore. Hey, no offence to Morgan Freeman or Jack Nicholson or any of my friends who are happily flitting about checking off their do-before-I-die lists. It's a good movie [...]
I'll start by getting my hypocrisy out in the open. Our Okanagan Class "B" camper van, for all its wonders, takes us 14 to 15 Miles Per US Gallon on a flat stretch of road with the wind at our backs. It costs $120 to fill the tank in Canada, and, despite my leanings to the [...]
Mark of Words 