Tag: family
member name: Rory M.
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September 08, 2007 11:55 PM EDT --
My Mom is a stalker.
She follows me everywhere I go.
When I’m playing in the back yard, she watches me through the slats on the blind. She thinks I can’t see her, but I can.
She drives me . . . more
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October 03, 2007 10:24 PM EDT --
The American television network NBC recently carried a series entitle The Black Donnellys. One of the creators of the series (Paul Haggis) is a native of London, Ontario, a small Canadian city with . . . more
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September 09, 2007 12:16 AM EDT --
When Janice woke up, everything seemed the same. Her same old slippers were lying on the floor beside her bed, same as always. Her same old bathrobe was hanging on the end of her bed, just the same as . . . more
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May 18, 2008 09:34 AM EDT --
This is the second installment of this series in which I am paying homage to the words of other writers that have had an impact on me in my life. The first article in the series can be found here: . . . more
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September 24, 2007 06:56 PM EDT --
All new parents, when their child is born (usually in a hospital) should be given these instructions as the baby is placed in their arms:
Here is your new child, it is a wild animal that will act . . . more
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September 29, 2006 10:27 PM EDT --
I had just finished a 17 hour day at work and was on my way home, exhausted beyond words. The day had capped off three weeks of gruelling work to finish the project that had been assigned to me, the project . . . more
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October 08, 2006 11:22 AM EDT --
Tomorrow, October 9th, is Canadian Thanksgiving. So, I thought I'd take a moment to give thanks for things great and small.
I'm thankful for my life. It has been a pretty good ride so far. I've . . . more
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November 24, 2006 12:59 PM EST --
I am from the Shamrock and the Tudor Rose
Cross-polinated by the Fleur-de-Lys and the Maple Leaf
I am from the frozen north, the land of funny money
Of the beaver and the lumberjack
I am from Harry . . . more
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October 07, 2006 01:03 AM EDT --
It was 1939 and the city of Montreal, Harry's adopted hometown and the only place in the world he'd ever known, was still reeling from the effects of the Great Depression.
Harry was luckier . . . more
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December 16, 2006 12:07 AM EST --
As a child I became a lifelong fan of comic books. One of my older brothers taught me to read years before I went to school on issues of The Incredible Hulk. I was hooked.
For years I read dozens of comic . . . more
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November 26, 2006 09:56 AM EST --
My mother and father never seemed to agree on anything. When he was cold, which was most of the time, she was hot. He was an Irish Catholic with republican sympathies, she was an Anglican Protestant. . . . more
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