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Last night I finally watched the Oscar-winning Dallas Buyers Club with Matthew McConaughey, not realizing until the credits at the end that it is based on a true story. Set in 1984,

In celebration of Canada Day I’m re-posting my earlier piece about why I’m glad to be Canadian. The papers were full of patriotic essays and observations and the one I liked the best was in today’s Globe and Mail, entitled The Canadian in me. Here’s a link and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/facts-and-arguments/the-canadian-in-me/article19391350/#dashboard/follows/ Here’s my earlier post: Watching the…

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When I opened my mailbox today (the old-fashioned kind – at the front of my house) I went nuts. There on the cover of one of my favourite Canadian magazines, the April 2014 edition of Zoomer was

Picture this—1964—a high school dance. All the cute girls are dancing with their regular boyfriends. Some of the guys have broken through the line of wallflowers and asked some of the unspoken-for girls to dance. And there are several circles of dateless girls (myself included) dancing together to

As mentioned in an earlier blog posting, Santa brought me a new laptop, replacing my 10-inch-screen HP with a 17-inch Toshiba. And changing computers never comes without a great deal of frustration, agony and an avalanche of R-rated bad-swears. After a month of fiddling,

In the February 2014 issue of Oprah magazine, author Anna Quindlen offers up the following quote as one of the 5 Things I Know for Sure: “I can’t get by without my friends.