All posts by Patricia Mills

The vicious personal attacks on individuals involved in Sudbury’s recent byelection were shameful and disgusting and border on hate speech [...]

It was no easy feat getting up at 4 am to go stand in line at a bus station, at the base of a mountain, in the dark to begin the arduous journey of arriving in Machu Picchu before the sun came up.   We were tired, awake all night because the ceiling of our [...]

  It was always challenging growing up in a family with eight siblings to be the one to get to lick the stir spoon after Mom prepared her famous chocolate fudge icing for her even more famous chocolate fudge three-layer cake. Mmmmm.   All of us would line up at the kitchen table hoping that [...]

  We thought it was really cute when one of Amelia’s first words was iPad. She said it around the same time that she started saying Dada and Illie (for her older sister Lily). And it really was cute when she said it in her very little girl voice, heavy with the accent of a [...]

  A chipped tooth recently gave way to a Pandora’s box of memories. This year marks my 25th anniversary of living in Sudbury, and my heath-care providers, business associates, staff and friends are aging as fast as I am! This may sound trite to some, but while I was sitting in my dentist’s chair I [...]

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 [...]

When Joni Mitchell sang, “you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone…” in her 1975 song, Big Yellow Taxi, she was referring to the environment. However, it has also become my mantra to keep my body moving when it would much rather hibernate, and to move it outside on our numerous scenic routes throughout [...]