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A letter to America on matters of love

Dear America – I’m in Lisbon, returning to Canada, thinking of you. Thinking about relationships. About Valentine’s Day. Family Day. Thinking about your threats, of course. “Crazy times,” a young Portuguese man said to me when learning I’m Canadian. Even prior, in Uganda – Uganda! – people looked at

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Flipping through the photo album of life

My phone recently showed me one of those photo montages called Memories. Exactly five years earlier, on a January day, someone took a photo of me standing with a gaggle of Ugandan kids holding hockey sticks, gear that I’d previously brought overseas. It was just before COVID. The kids are very happy.

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Resolution for 2025: Get to the beach, the beach, the beach

Before I get to New Year’s resolutions, here’s Child #3, Hannah. The other day she was the conversation topic around the table. At my turn I shared what I appreciate about my girl, our girl, the birthday girl. I shared that, like a fun-loving otter, she gets me out of myself.

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Something to get quiet about

Here’s a fun fact. “The Sound of Silence,” the hit song by Simon and Garfunkel, has turned 60. Its birthday slipped by somewhat silently (naturally) several weeks ago. It’s a reminder about the importance of silence, how we need it like we need food. Or air. Now silence is something that you may not know

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