Haunting Thoughts (Michael St. Amant)
Have you ever had an experience or dream that haunts you throughout your life? It is one of those events that you rarely talk about, and when you try to… Continue reading "Haunting Thoughts (Michael St. Amant)"
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Have you ever had an experience or dream that haunts you throughout your life? It is one of those events that you rarely talk about, and when you try to… Continue reading "Haunting Thoughts (Michael St. Amant)"
I’ve always found that, in spite of the fact that there are numerous restaurants in Brantford, I tend to pick a favourite. When I was younger it was a place… Continue reading "Lunch At Sophia’s (Lynne Joseph)"
I would like to put out there an argument you may have heard before, but dismissed as antiquated and sexist. The logic of the idea is, I think, very sound,… Continue reading "Man Enough To Be Mom (Dan Taylor)"
“My wife has been married to five men… everyone of them has been me.” That’s what Lewis B. Smedes wrote as an older man in 1983’s Controlling the Unpredictable-The Power… Continue reading "My Wife Has Been Married To Five Men (Dave Carrol, @DaveCarrol)"
The job is parenting. Someone has to do it. The people that created the small being are the ones originally blessed with that responsibility. They have a choice to take… Continue reading "Parenting, Plain and Simple (Sylvia Collins)"
In my last column we talked about beginnings, and how sometimes beginnings are connected to events in our past in nearly imperceptible ways. For example, I was in the midst… Continue reading "You Just Never Know – Part 2 (Marc Laferriere, @MarcLaferriere)"
It’s the beginning of the year and all I can think about are beginnings. It’s amazing how they happen. Sometimes, you can’t even tell that something is a beginning until… Continue reading "You Just Never Know – Part 1 (Marc Laferriere, @MarcLaferriere)"
I will preface this piece by confessing that I am a sap: sentimental to the core. I get teary-eyed at strangers’ weddings, have inevitably bawled through Rilla of Ingleside more… Continue reading "I Will Be Here Now (Layne Becker Grime)"
Over the past few months, my son and daughter were married. Weddings are about the Bride and the Groom. It is the moment that they openly chose to declare their… Continue reading "A Father’s Take on Marriage (Michael St. Amant, @MichaelStAmant)"
When I was a little girl my dad worked at AVRO Malton, which was later to build and fly the CF 105 also known as Avro Arrow. He had to… Continue reading "The Trains (Lynne Joseph)"