New Perspectives – Guest: Welcome to my Garden -‘Wrensong’
Welcome to my Garden
by Jean MacGregor
The birch is old and showing its age as it continues to preside over the garden, overseeing its evolution...
New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “American Dirt”
By fully extending her arm through the unguarded border wire, a desperate teenaged Honduran girl symbolically clutches a handful of soil from the US...
New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “DOUBLE DUTY MOMS”
The slender, auburn-haired young mother was trying to enjoy a relaxed restaurant meal with her husband and two kids even while she kept an...
New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “STAY AT HOME?”
Day after long weary day, we fight to keep the invisible wolf from our door. The battle takes place primarily on the front doorstep....
New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “DOWN TIME”
As that old proverb informs us: the month of March “--comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.” While this cliché...
New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – GOODBYE, NUCLEAR FAMILY?
On February 17, I eased my body down into my favorite ancient Morris chair to read a newly-delivered glossy magazine. This was last Monday,...
New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – ‘Life or Death’?
It is literally a matter of life or death. I refer to the Federal Government’s on-line survey which invites Canadians to respond to a...
New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – a respite
For many readers who look forward to our columns by Rev. Bob Johnston ( New
Perspectives: A Senior Moment) and his Historical Society columns that...
New Year resolutions made easy
This is a good message for anytime but as we head into a new year and new decade, we thought the following may be...
New Perspectives: A Senior Moment – “Hope”
I was on my way to church; clerical collar in place around my neck and a prepared sermon in my head. After backing the...
