Happiness and contentment are marvellous feelings. Being at peace with yourself and your environment is a goal well gained. But the older you get, for many people life seems more complicated and stressful. This world we live in is a whole lot faster and more complex than the one I came into in […]
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*** Author’s Note*** This essay originally contained two Youtube videos of the song ‘You Will Never Know’ by the French chanteuse Imany, which are no longer available because of copyright laws. There are many versions this song still available to view on Youtube. I would recommend you view one while reading this story. […]
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When a child is born, it arrives into a predetermined environment. Hopefully that environment contains two parents that are willing to love, nurture and care for their child as long as they possibly can. With any luck, this environment will also contain a cast of engaged characters, such grandparents, aunts, uncles and siblings, all of […]
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In the Fall of 1967 when I was eighteen years old I joined the Zeta Psi fraternity at the University of Toronto. Forty-nine years later I can count almost half of the brothers pictured above as my closest, and as it has turned out, life-long friends. As a matter of interest, I am the pensive […]
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Isn’t that the cutest little nipper you have ever seen? And that pony, Wow! Well guess what, one of them is me, the other is ‘Talk of the Town,’ an international champion in several different classes. I can’t say the same about myself, but ‘Talkie,’ as he was affectionately named, won enough ribbons for the […]
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Have you ever wanted to be in the movies? Did you ever dream of being a star in your own movie? Well, I was in one, a made for television educational film in the 1960’s, ‘Where Are The Poets,’ which is featured in the music category of this website, but other than that, being in […]
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It’s 1949 and here I am with my parents, Ralph and Myrtle at my first home. In a couple of years the stork would bring my brother Martin for me to play with. Brother Paul and sister Michelle would follow. Happy times! We lived in a tough neighbourhood though, so my dad decided that I […]
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Project Semicolon ‘A semicolons is used when an author could have ended a sentence but chose not to. You are the author and the sentence is your life.’ Students Protest for Suicide Support. On Tuesday June 7th 2016, […]
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Nestled into eighty acres of Quebec’s Laurentian Mountains, one of the most stunningly beautiful horse emporiums that ever existed was built in the 1940’s by Canadian construction visionary James Franceschini. High above the shores of Lac Tremblant and resting in the shadows of the famed Mt. Tremblant ski resort, Dufferin Haven, as Franceschini named his […]
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Here’s a wee Scottish Lad And Lassie in 1964. Read on to see how the picture fits the story. When I first logged on to the internet in 1997 it was a source of unbelievable information, literally right there at my finger tips with something weird called googling, with a capital ‘G.’ Over the years […]
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