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Have You No Shame in the Marrow of Your Bones?

“Have you no shame in the marrow of your bones?” My friend Sheila is a wonderful storyteller. She spins the most spellbinding tales of growing up in India, the youngest child of a railway executive and...

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Honoured Guest

I am an honoured guest and I must confess that it’s a title I could get used to. I’m visiting the family of my friend Lois, staying in the Dundas room, named for the picture on the wall and the point...

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Stupid and Brilliant

When I got to Charmaine’s on Friday morning she was in a mood.  The kind where you know better than to ask how she’s doing and just start walking.  After a little while she asked permission to unload,...

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Because You’re So Sporty

Liz gave me a new athletic bag for my birthday.  “Because you’re so sporty,” she said. I looked at her like she was from Mars. When I was in high school I decided to cram five years of classes into...

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Kristin(a)

I have a friend who was born in Norway, educated in Paris, met a man in Toronto, spent a year in the south of France on extended honeymoon with him, before they got married and she moved to Calgary. It...

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An Intimate Conversation

The following words are not my own.  They came by email from a dear friend and fellow artist after a long lunch together.  When I read them I felt so seen and known that I could have wept with relief....

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Surprise and Delight

I try to arrange my life so that I am likely to stumble upon things that surprise and delight me.  This means that I encourage a certain amount of spontaneity and serendipity in my day.  And that I am...

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Piss, Blood and Vomit

“How’s work?” I asked. “It’s great.” she said. “The director said hi to me on Friday.” I know how rare it is for such an elevated personage to acknowledge a member of the crew. “And the work is...

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Soup Share 2013

Every November my friend Kim holds her annual Soup Share.   It’s a competition.  Each cook enters their signature soup and the rest of us pay $2 per cup to taste them.  We vote for the best of the...

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Lydia Roy

We were driving along highway 35 in Oregon, returning from an expedition to Mount Hood in the direction of our hotel in White Salmon, Washington. It was a hot July day. The orchards were in fruit. We...

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