broken families Archives – Thomas Froese

The summer my family made the news

10 Comments / Hamilton Spectator, Newspaper columns / July 14, 2018 / 2018, broken families, Froese family history, suicide trends / 4 minutes of reading

So, it’s my 50th, that time to remember. And celebrate.

No, not that 50th. Not my 50th birthday. That day came and went three years ago today. It was something else.

On that day, the children – God bless them – decided to crack open their savings, walk to a local party store

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A boy’s story

In the end, we are story as much as we are anything. This is one reason why it works so well, this movie, Boyhood, which follows in real time filming the life of a boy who, over the span of a dozen or so years, grows up. It’s a remarkable movie-making twist — thank you Richard Linklater