Miracles never cease Today is our 46th wedding anniversary. Aujourd’hui, c’est notre 46e anniversaire de mariage. The short vignette that follows tells the story of our wedding. La courte vignette qui suit raconte l’histoire de notre mariage. La version française suit la version anglaise. On August 30, 1980, Anne and I got married..
For Anne, on her birthday, August 22, 2026 Anne, on this day that still belongs to your light, I speak your name softly into the morning. You were kindness moving quietly through a room, a gentle creature of warmth, patience, and love. Brain cancer came like an implacable adversary, without mercy, without pause, without regard…
Expiring like a quivering, vulnerable bird in the dawn’s grey I have become obsessed with how Anne died, three months ago, quivering, vulnerable, like a stricken bird. This little poem is intended to honour her. It is presented on a Haiga background. https://www.graceguts.com/haiga I find it soothing and therapeutic to concoct these..
Your memory has become a treasure “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” Author unknown “The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” Hillary..
Jim Carrey on Grief Grief is not just an emotion – it’s an unraveling, a space where something once lived but is now gone. It carves through you, leaving a hollow ache where love once resided. In the beginning, it feels unbearable, like a wound that will never close. But over time, the raw..
So sorry for your loss: an open letter to VIA Rail Canada VIA Rail President and CEO Mathieu Paquette 3 Place Ville Marie, Suite 500, Montreal, QC H3B 2C9 1 email @viarail.ca Dear Mr. Paquette, I am writing you as an inveterate train enthusiast. My father spent 30 years as a railway employee, and..
Geno Lewis: Scoring a touchdown for compassion (revisited) https://www.cfl.ca/2026/08/02/redblacks-release-receiver-eugene-lewis/ Responding to the above press release of August 2, 2026 A letter to the editor of the Ottawa Citizen newspaper The Ottawa Redblacks have certainly been experiencing a miserable season on the gridiron, but they’ve scored big points in so many other ways. My..