When we lived in Powassan, four hours north of Toronto, we had many friends we still keep in touch with. Two special friends Barry and I love very much are Bonnie and Jim. When we lived down the street from Bonnie and Jim, we had our girls,…
When we lived in Powassan, four hours north of Toronto, we had many friends we still keep in touch with. Two special friends Barry and I love very much are Bonnie and Jim. When we lived down the street from Bonnie and Jim, we had our girls,…
We held a memorial service for Barry yesterday, Friday and a visitation Thursday night. Over two hundred friends, colleagues and family members came to pay their last respects to Barry. My daughter Kathy, printed a copy of the blog I wrote
If you would like to keep up with news of Barry's time in the hospital, please visit my blog,http://livingintheeasternwoodlands.blogspot.com/I am Barry's wife Linda and I will be posting news every day. Thank you. About every five minutes a…
Despite a couple of nice things happening, it has been a miserable week.And I'm not much looking forward to this one either.I look back and marvel at the rapidity of my decline. It seems that everyday brings a noticeable increase in the int…
And so our heroes, a little battered but still undefeated, stage a strategic retreat and turn their little Honda Civic to the North for a weekend away in the Haliburton area of Ontario.Yes there will be blackflies and the trees will not be
Lindsay celebrating her freedom! Her day at the groomer is over.Her long hair is gone, her teeth are cleaner, her nails are clipped and her bum is sanitized.But more important than all that: she is home, in her own backyard, with her family…
Congratulations to the organizers, volunteers, supporters and athletes on a magnificent Olympic Games. With the win by the men's hockey team, Canada has now won more gold medals than any Nation in Winter Olympic history.The weather gods may…
High on the wall next to the exit from the Chemo Day Care Centre at Princess Margaret Hospital is a bell.And a sign.The sign invites those who have completed their last cycle of chemotherapy to ring the bell as they're leaving. Periodically…
He calls himself the Woodsman, but not for the salacious meaning that may be crossing your mind. He has a deep and passionate love of the woods and forests that surround his New England home. He and his wife Ann loved nothing better than va…
He calls himself the Woodsman, but not for the salacious meaning that may be crossing your mind. He has a deep and passionate love of the woods and forests that surround his New England home. He and his wife Ann loved nothing better than va…
The relationship between cancer and emotional states is somewhat unclear. It may be that anger, as a prime contributor to stress, is either a cause of cancer or, through the damage it does to the immune system, a prime contributor to its ra…