New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “WHO WAS ILA BLANCHARD?”
Exactly one hundred years ago, a young woman entered Form 4 at Parkdale Collegiate Institute in Toronto. Her name was Ila Blanchard and I...
New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – ‘Come from Away’
Admittedly, it does sound like I missed the point by flying to Newfoundland/Labrador on five separate occasions, yet failing to visit a quaint fishing...
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Named for one of the world’s great thinkers, Leonardo DaVinci who used both art and science to explore branches of knowledge, this four-part series...
New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “Bad Guys”
Criminals have been much in the headlines this month. A week ago, the body of convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, was found hanged in...
New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “OUR MOST VULNERABLE”
The true measure of any society can be found
In how it treats its most vulnerable members-----Gandhi
More than 75,000 frail, elderly Ontarians are cared for...
New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – The Child Whisperer
The little boy’s plaintive wailing grew louder and louder. Until then, It had been a perfect July weekend at the family’s old cottage: the...
New Perspectives : A Senior Moment – “THE LAST HAYRAH”
Could an old man really replay a long ago wrestling match with a bale of hay? It had been 35 years since I last...
New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “FARMER FOR A DAY”
Actually, it was for only two hours, but it felt like a whole day’s worth of work. Perhaps I should explain.
Two days ago, a...
New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “A Father’s Soul”
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New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “REMEMBERING D-DAY”
It was 1947 and Mrs. G. was proving to be a sullen, uncommunicative Toronto neighbour. As a young child moving with my family into...
New Perspectives: A Sr. Moment – “Mothers – here and there”
Mothers have been much in the news this past week, a fitting build-up to today, when we pause to honour those other less-famous moms,...
A Senior Moment: “Surfin’ the Obits”
Have you heard the tale about a cranky old man who began each day by scanning the obituaries in his morning newspaper before he...
New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “Stringing Words Together”
Earlier this week, I was given the honour of critiquing a fellow writer’s work. In itself, this was not a new experience; over the...
New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “Church Without a Church?”
Is a church building required in order to “go to church?” Throughout most of its 2000 year history, Christianity has been summoning generations of...
