Category: family
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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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Kate’s been gone a while. Years. Today, while tidying the electronic desktop, I stumbled on several images that made me smile. Kate loved investigating a lower kitchen cupboard during late-night wanderings. The open cupboard door next morning always revealed her secret. This particular morning was the beginning of a gut-the-first-floor house remodel. We’d set up…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 