Ashes to Ashes
Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. The phrase ‘ashes to ashes’ expresses the notion that we come from dust and we return to dust. It’s kind of ironic I write to you about ashes and dust when we are in … Continued
Positive Summer Musings
It’s a hot day in July and I am loving it. I know our beautiful B.C. is burning and there is so much despair in the news but I am going to concentrate on happy thoughts and pour out the … Continued
Time to End Elder Abuse
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) is marked each year on June 15. It is an official United Nations International Day acknowledging the significance of elder abuse as a public health and human rights issue. Since 2006, communities throughout the … Continued
Complicated Grief
We’re all going to die. That’s an indisputable fact. As we grow older, we are well aware of our imminent mortality which has been exacerbated by the daily onslaught of the numbers of those we have lost due to this … Continued
Hurry Up and Wait
Hurry up and wait! That’s what it feels like as I sit here patiently waiting for my turn to get the much anticipated COVID-19 vaccine. Alas, as a younger Zoomer, I am too old for one and too young for … Continued
Options for Hope in Surrey
I imagine by now you have watched the interview. The interview with Meghan and Harry who sat down recently with talk show queen Oprah to bare their souls. Poor Meghan. Poor Harry. Hello, didn’t Meghan realize what she was getting … Continued
Memories of Love
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could all write a beautiful love sonnet like Elizabeth Barrett Browning! Most of us are not poets, but we have loved someone. During these … Continued
A Creative Vaccine
Happy New Year! With 2020 now a haunting memory, we can look forward to 2021 when hopefully we will witness the end of this wretched pandemic and receive a much-awaited shot in the arm. Literally. As in vaccines. But until … Continued
A COVID Christmas
‘Twas the night before Christmas and Santa was tired The pandemic was raging, and his elves had been fired He begged to his reindeer, “Please help me tonight!” But they froze in their tracks then ran out of sight. Santa … Continued
International Bromance Part Deux
Call Us Zoomers Please! That was the title of the first column I wrote for the Peace Arch News ten years ago in November 2010. A decade has zoomed by (pun intended) and I can’t think of a better way … Continued