Category: family
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Hanging out the laundry to dry in the hot sun. That’s a thing a retired woman has time to do. And savor. String out the line, drape the sheets, clip on the wooden clothespins. Listen to the cheeping nuthatches scolding that you’ve interrupted their breakfast. Imagine yourself as a part of a long long line…
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As a boomer who grew up on the edge of a treed ravine that went down to the Humber River in Toronto, I was absolutely a free-range kid. In the summer, we wandered freely in the woods. The only absolute rule was to stay away from and out of the river. My mom sent me…
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It’s not quite a year since my mother passed. She was such a gift. If I started to talk about her, we’d be here all day. But here are two things. That photo above? I snapped it in January 2024 when I visited her. She lived in southern Alberta and that particular week, the temperature…
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