Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
If your house mailbox, email inbox and voice mail are like mine, they are full of requests from organization after organization asking for your financial support. Street soliciting for charities is also on the rise at this time of year. Continue reading The giving season is upon us
When my partner’s son, at the age of 8 or 9, decided he wanted to play hockey, it did not fill my heart with joy. My younger brother had eschewed hockey in favour of speed skating and, as a teenager, Continue reading The good ole hockey game!
With these lines, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner bemoaned the absence of drinkable water while he was surrounded by salty sea water. No doubt, he would have been just as horrified by the current state of those same seas, now Continue reading “Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink.”
So says Thelma Pepper, 98, who began taking photographs when she was 60 years old. Her children were grown, and she was bored, so she picked up a camera. “I had spent my whole life not really doing anything for Continue reading “It’s a great thing to believe in yourself.”