Photo: Green Hill Provincial Park, from Tourism Nova Scotia website. In February 2011, I wrote a note reflecting on the drive between New Glasgow and my Mom’s place in Salt Springs. It is now known as the “old highway”. The newer twinned highway is where most of the traffic now flows. It leaves the old […]
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Heavy Metal and Hard rock dominated my cassette collection when my music holdings welcomeed Compact Discs. Given my collection’s obvious favouritsm towards metal, many of my friends were shocked that Arrested Development’s 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of… would be the first disc I would own. The amount of hip-hop in my […]
#ThisIsWhatAnxietyFeelsLike If you are in Canada and browsing on #Twitter over Sunday, you would have noticed this hashtag trending. Stigma Fighters CEO Sarah Fader started up the conservation to get people talking some more about anxiety. It took me a second to realize that she brilliantly started this up. It was a conversation that caught viral […]
So many are told from a young age that when they grow up, they will have children of their own. It is still common for parents to instill a traditionalist biological ideology in the minds of their offspring. They may be teaching them what they learned from their parents. Or, the parents could be telling […]
You really owe no one an explanation if you do not have children. Even asking the question of someone may be crossing a fine personal line. If a person cannot have children for medical reasons, it may open a wound deeper that might never close. For those who have chosen a life with no children, […]
Editing Revising For me it may very well be one of the most enjoyable things about writing. For much of what I have worked on over the years, I’ve insisted on working the majority of any edits on my own. Mainly due to my own stubborn attitude and drive to make everything the best it […]
Geoff Nicholls was known mainly as the longtime keyboardist for Black Sabbath. Onstage, backstage or off to the side stage, his textural playing remains an important historical part of heavy metal’s most influential band. Nicholls’ performances were initially noteworthy for enhancing Sabbath’s revitalized return in 1980 when the first of the Ronnie James Dio Era records were […]
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