BOUNTIFUL BEGINNINGS I was the child of parents who grew to adulthood on a pioneer homestead in Manitoba. Throughout my life, I took it pretty much for granted that the major holidays would signal a large family gathering, accompanied by some significant feasting, with food that […]
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COMMITMENT PHOBIA Right off the top, National Novel Writing Month sounds like a really bad idea for a person as commitment phobic as me. For readers who aren’t familiar, NaNoWriMo is “National Novel Writing Month, shortened as NaNoWriMo (na-noh-ry-moh), … “an annual internet-based creative writing project that takes place every November. NaNoWriMo challenges participants to
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A TIME FOR EVERY SEASON There’s something about this time of year. I always anticipate that it’s going to hit at the beginning of September with the start of the school year but I’m usually wrong. There is always a month of readjustment and settling in. It’s not until now, at the equinox, that I
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