When you reflect on the biggest life changing circumstances you’ve experienced, how long did it take before things felt normal again? Or, how long did…
My late husband liked to collect things. He also liked to keep things. If he brought something into the house, it stayed there, particularly if…
When my cousin Stuart was a kid he visited our Aunt in Toronto’s west end, circa 1960. She was a single, working, professional woman in…
Last weekend my family, including cousins, in-laws, offspring, plus ones, and other loose bits gathered for a large Thanksgiving celebration; the first of this kind…
Families are like a mobile — the kind that are hung from the ceiling with matching parts delicately balanced, moving together on whatever on air…
A significant challenge of aging well and living long means having to say goodbye to those long term friends who go before you. I’m watching…
What is the first song you can remember hearing? What were the circumstances? Was someone singing to you, or was it a recording? What song…
Calvin, of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes made good use of his transmogrifier — a cardboard box which had the power to transmogrify himself…
Living alone is one thing, but if I want to do things — and I do — it means that sometimes I will be by…
Grocery shopping is the one regular household chore that people complete together in a common space. Everyone in the store, doing the same thing in…