What’s Your Story? Episode #1
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With Halloween just around the corner, I dropped in on a newly-formed coven of dancing witches to watch them rehearse!
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I did it! One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced during the pandemic has been setting goals and sticking to them. Some days I don’t feel much like accomplishing anything, so I really have to push myself to keep going. I have been playing guitar and singing in my living room for some time, but
For some reason I had always pictured Pompeii as a small village. This is what happens when I travel. I learn. Even in January, the train from Naples was crowded, and I wondered how much busier it must be in the summer months. At one point, we stopped at a station well before Pompeii, and
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Perhaps it’s because I have been so starved for comfort lately, but whatever the reason, I often find myself reflecting on the past, and it’s always the memories that touch my heart that stand out and bring me the solace I so desperately need. Many years ago I lived in a half-duplex with my two
Salisano, Italy Italy has been one of my “bucket list” destinations for many years. I watched “Under The Tuscan Sun”, then followed up by reading the entire book series (upon which the movie was loosely based), written by Frances Mayes, and I was hooked. I imagined myself sitting on a beautiful terrace overlooking a field
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The Boy I Never Knew I am writing this in a cemetery. I found a grassy spot in the corner overlooking Hay Bay, and here I sit. Hopefully this is where my ashes will be buried, near my parents, all of us looking out over the idyllic land and water that defined our
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Grand Falls, New Brunswick Years ago my mother showed me a weathered newspaper clipping she’d found within the pages of an old notebook that had come home in one of my father’s famous auction sale hauls. The brittle, yellowed poem told the tale of Malabeam, a Maliseet Indian princess who was captured by an enemy tribe.
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royal naval Dockyard, Bermuda It’s September, and the Bermuda heat is stifling. I stand on a balcony aboard the Norwegian Breakaway at King’s Wharf, and gaze across at the Royal Navy Dockyard, trying to imagine how grueling it would have been for the slaves and British penal colony convicts who built this place. These days
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