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  There is a part of me that wants to scream YIKES!! Just one more hour, one more day – anything to give me time – stop the time – PLEASE the scary room is scarier; the paper work is over flowing; maybe if I just get a green garbage bag and throw everything in [...]

  Learning to play music has fringe benefits.   JoAnne Landry started taking guitar lessons when she was 10 years old. She knew at an early age she wanted to be a musician. Several decades later, she is living her dream. She loves to sing and perform, and she makes a good living teaching guitar [...]

In January both Leila and I had a new experience; a surgical procedure for Leila in the hospital, who do you think had more going through the mind? No need to guess, from my standpoint we were both a little anxious from different perspectives. I was the lucky one with so many adults giving me [...]

As I sit quietly while a child sleeps I have time to reflect on some events that appeared to be obstacles yet in the end were gifts. Remember a time when you were sure you covered all the bases in preparation – paperwork in hand, friend with influence at your side, and the most critical [...]

Twenty years ago who would have have thought Sudbury would have a medical school and a thriving film industry? The made-in-Sudbury television drama, Hard Rock Medical, inspired by the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM), will likely be broadcast this summer on TVO in Ontario and nationally on APTN. Sudbury will soon be famous in [...]

There were not too many parties when I was growing up. It’s just the way it was in a large family with little resources and a working mother who held down two paying jobs in addition to her main “job” as mother to a brood of eight children. So I was flattered, humbled, shy and [...]

2013 04 14 What a fabulous day! Miss Leila turned 5 in January and what a wonderful experience the month of January became as she would wake and tell me how many more sleeps until her birthday +1 for her birthday party. I must admit I was definitely caught up in the excitement; who wouldn’t [...]

The Beatles go naked. I’m not sure how many people watched the HBO movie about Phil Spector, the music producer who is famous for his Wall of Sound. Al Pacino played the eccentric who is currently in prison for murder. In his heyday, Spector wrote and produced many Top 40 hits in the 1960s including [...]

7/4/2013 Today’s date marks Leila’s 40th month as one of the most influential educators in my life. I carefully chose the word educator vs. teacher, because I learned in the later years of my career in education – the only teacher in anyone’s life, is the individual, no matter the age. Yes, it sounds so [...]

  Twenty years ago who would have thought Sudbury would have a medical school and a thriving film industry? The made-in-Sudbury television drama, Hard Rock Medical, inspired by the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM), will likely be broadcast this summer on TVO in Ontario and nationally on APTN. Sudbury will soon be famous in [...]