Grandpa gripped my hand as I leaned over his hospital bed. There wasn’t much time. With the back of his other hand, he swept aside his oxygen mask and struggled to speak. “Remember: Love!”…
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I write less here when I’m meditating more. Not sure what that means. I think it was Mordecai Richler who said that writing was his meditation. My meditation technique is Vipassana, a non-sectarian lifestyle…
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“How many horses does it take to haul your fat ass around town?” I’m sick of SUVs. We need to DO something about them. Who ARE these people riding around in these planet-killers? A…
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Check out Laugharne, Wales. Beaches like PEI. Never snows. Seven pubs. 2000 people. One of Wales’ largest used bookstores. 100+ kids (and young parents). Did I mention it doesn’t snow? Take a tour of…
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I just spent 6 days in Wales, the land of my ancestors — story-tellers, miners, musicians, dreamers. I managed to trace my mother’s side of my family back to its origins in a tiny…