Ancestry
Ancestry is about heritage and lineage. These words may seem the same but they mean two different things. Heritage is something that is handed down from the past like…
READ MOREConverting a Country
Early on in my school years Canada changed its weights and measures system from Imperial to Metric. Overnight quarts became litres, yards became meters and pounds became kilos. There was…
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I have just ended a string of twelve straight days working (hence last week’s feeble attempt at poetry) and since it is summer and the busiest time of year for…
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I wake up in the morning; get up out of bed; The aches and pains I feel, tell me I’m not dead. Down the hall I stumble, I can barely…
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“The planning, implementation and coordination of the details of a business or other operation.” (Dictionary.com). “The detailed coordination of a complex operation involving many people, facilities, or supplies,” (New Oxford…
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I can’t stop the grass from growing. It’s been rainy and cool for more than a week and my grass just loves it. The slow release fertilizer I applied for…
READ MOREDependable People
This last Saturday, the day before Father’s Day, my mother-in-law was scheduled to move from one apartment with multiple floors to another apartment that was just on a single floor….
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As the three of you may have noticed there was nothing from me last week. Have no fear nothing has gone wrong and all around me are healthy and relatively…
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Forty-eight months, four years, it seems like a long time, hell it feels like a long time, but in the grand scheme of things it is but a microcosm. That…
READ MOREEveryone’s 5th Cousin
As Ginger and The Earl prepare for the upcoming nuptials of their daughter DeeDee (Doctor Daughter), I am reminded of all the things that I dealt with during the preparation…
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