Jul 14, 2017 | Connection, Hearts, Love, Ottawa, Storyteller
A picture of the reluctant birthday boy! Dear Fionn, Ahh. The yearly birthday letter. Today, an auspicious birthday, you enter a new decade, your twenties, leaving your teens behind. You have been enroute to be a great man from the day you were born, of course....
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Apr 18, 2017 | Connection, Hearts, Love, Storyteller
My lovely husband, Douglas McKercher, wished me well as I galloped off on my yearly week-long writing get-away. To show my appreciation for his constant support, and for putting up with sparkles and barn board, both of which he hates and I love, I wrote him this poem....
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Mar 8, 2017 | Connection, Hearts, Love, Storyteller
The chairs shouted quietly at me as I stepped off the elevator onto the 11th floor of my mother’s assisted-living residence. Sickness is here. And it is serious. The chairs, folding ones with padded seats, stood on guard outside three of 16 apartment doorways in the...
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