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 […]
Read MorePhoto above: Ralph with Eleanor O’Meara at Hoggs Hollow natural rink, Toronto Part One There comes a time in every young person’s life when they find themselves at a crossroad, forced to make decisions about which journey to take. Sometimes it involves giving up what you know, love and trust for an unknown commodity. […]
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“ Soccer is a game for wimps! ” That’s what I thought about the sport that much of the world calls ‘futbol’ during my early years growing up in Toronto, Canada. Real men played ice hockey or North American style rugby football, the type played in the N.F.L. or Canadian football league. Baseball was a […]
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