Second Chances
Easter comes in our season of spring: snow changes to water, frozen earth to green grass and yellow dandelions, and frozen streams turn...
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The Heart of Love
I waited anxiously wondering how many valentines if any, I would receive that Valentine’s Day. A box had been placed in our middle-school...
The Creche
The creche today still projects the Christmas message – God is present in our world.
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- Apr 8
- 5 min
Second Chances
Easter comes in our season of spring: snow changes to water, frozen earth to green grass and yellow dandelions, and frozen streams turn...
- Feb 10
- 3 min
The Heart of Love
I waited anxiously wondering how many valentines if any, I would receive that Valentine’s Day. A box had been placed in our middle-school...
- Dec 13, 2022
- 4 min
The Creche
The creche today still projects the Christmas message – God is present in our world.
- Aug 23, 2022
- 3 min
Picnics
At the country school I first attended, at the end of June, the community held a picnic on the school grounds. Games were played, races...
- Jun 30, 2022
- 2 min
Canadian, eh?
I am a citizen of two countries. I was once told, “You are privileged to be a citizen of two wonderful countries?” My reply was, “Yes,...
- Jun 15, 2022
- 2 min
Remembering Father
There is so much I didn’t know about my father. I knew he loved music, could recite volumes of poetry, The Cremation of Sam McGee in its...
- May 1, 2022
- 2 min
Honouring Mothers
“Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother.” My cousin and I as preschoolers did some adventuresome but naughty things. On...
- Mar 23, 2022
- 3 min
Epic Battles
This past winter has been cruel. Wind-chill-warning cold and snow upon blowing snow battered Winnipeg. Any harbinger of spring whether...
- Feb 27, 2022
- 4 min
The Nature of Love
Valentine’s Day 2022 has passed. Cards have been packed away for another year. Heart-shaped boxes of chocolate are now half-price on the...
- Jan 19, 2022
- 3 min
Remote Learning
Frost bordered the bottom of our front picture window this January morning. Memories surfaced of finger-numbing days of childhood and my...
- Dec 27, 2021
- 2 min
Genesis
Charles Dickens begins his novel, David Copperfield, “To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record I was born.” Like David...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 3 min
The Power of Hope
“There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope,” Bernard Williams. Recently we celebrated our daughter’s...
- Nov 30, 2021
- 2 min
November, the Cruelest Month
“November is the cruelest month,” stated poet Jamie Moore. September is beautiful with cooler temperatures, ripening fruit, and the...
- Oct 31, 2021
- 3 min
Golden Memories
October is the golden month. I am old enough to experience harvesting prairie crops done by binders, sheaves, and threshing machines. The...
- Jul 1, 2021
- 2 min
Canada Day
My mother was born July 1st.. She loved Canada, but by a quirk of fate, she was born in Lansing, Michigan and thus an American. At three...
- Jun 20, 2021
- 3 min
Banished
The summer I turned sixteen, my father banished me to a remote farm. Mother was away that summer upgrading her teaching certificate. Dad...
- May 20, 2021
- 2 min
Mother's Hands
She was sitting on her bed, her hands on her lap, one casually fingering the material of her skirt. My attention focused on her hands;...
- Apr 14, 2021
- 4 min
Easter Eggs and Chocolate Bunnies
As grandparents we watched our two granddaughters, Kathryn and Carling search for Easter eggs at our home and yard some years ago....
- Mar 15, 2021
- 4 min
Musings of a Modern Pilgrim
“And what’s your reason for walking the Camino?” The pilgrim slackened his pace to match mine. My glance revealed a tall, dark...
- Mar 15, 2021
- 3 min
Who Touched Me
In the early seventies, large billboards appeared along Winnipeg streets. The billboards had two words, “Touch Me”.
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