My father used to tell me school days were the happiest days of your life. What a crock that turned out to be. I was taught by the Irish Christian Brothers, a teaching arm of the Catholic Church, and despite some experiences and much learned, it was a nightmare.
Smack
It’s almost heartbreaking to see this summer end come Labour Day. Some of the reasons I’d love it to linger has to do with the weather.
As the week before the last long weekend edges closer, the temps are still in the mid to high 20s and the mugginess mingled
A couple of weeks ago I finally got around to a long postponed summer chore. We all have our own list of chores and someone to remind us of it. On my list was painting the deck on my little shed. During the winter I had purchased eight single litre
My daughter and I were in Ontario visiting family when I got the call that Nevaeh had died. My sister, her 11 year-old and my ten year-old daughter and I were out at a magic show at the time of the call and without thinking I leaned ahead – speaking
There is one level on which I don’t care what Discovery Day is going to be called. It is an issue that doesn’t move me. St. John’s City Council has voted to change Discovery Day to St. John’s Day until a new name is found.
At the root of this
What do you do when life hands you lemons? That age-old proverb has been hypothesized since the early 1900s when writer and philosopher Elbert Hubbard pondered the adversity of an actor he was memorializing.
The answer? You make lemonade. It’s an optimistic slogan used in schools and positivity propaganda to
Last week in the quiet of a summer evening when the wind had died and the birds began to sing their night song I came to terms with the chilling reality of where our world has gone.
It was in a book called The Skin of Culture which is a
I lost my brother to suicide a year ago. That’s the cold, hard facts stated as plainly and as simply as humanly possible. That statement is about the only thing that’s even remotely close to being simple when it comes to what this past year has been like.
Everybody faces
It is difficult not to have sympathy for those people who for various reasons, including medical, don’t want to get out of their cars on the car deck of some provincial ferries – but unfortunately it is a problem without a solution. It is “the way of the world.”
We
There’s no denying the fact that Newfoundland is the type of province that gets into your heart and soul, but it’s also the kind of a place that goes just a little deeper, particularly when it’s bred into your bloodline.
My niece Claire was born in Ontario and calls Niagara