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Random Rumblings

June 14, 2023   ·   0 Comments

by SHERALYN ROMAN It’s been a little while since I’ve indulged the spinning inner hamster wheel that is my mind. I occasionally write a series ...

Who chopped down the cherry tree?

by BRIAN LOCKHART The house that I grew up in was part of a subdivision built in the mid 1950s. My parents purchased that house ...

Beating the odds every single day

by Mark Pavilons We in the western world have it all and yet we take much of it for granted. If you are a Boomer, ...

Recognizing and addressing the consequential

by BROCK WEIR In the grand scheme of things, I didn’t grow up all that long ago – yet, in many ways, it sometimes feels ...

But first, traffic…

by SHERALYN ROMAN It seems that lately, I’ve been talking a lot about infrastructure. Of course, as a layperson, I am no expert on the ...

Black gold, Texas tea

by BRIAN LOCKHART “Come and listen to my story about a man named Jed, A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed, And then one ...

Going “home” through nostalgic lenses

by Mark Pavilons There are plenty of songs, poems and quotes about the desire to “go home.” Sorry to say, it’s just not possible. We ...

Two tiers aren’t solution to healthcare

OUR READERS WRITE I’m a palliative care patient at Doane House Hospice and the Odette Cancer Center at Sunnybrook. I’ve encountered many roadblocks along my ...

Not “small potatoes” anymore

by BROCK WEIR When you have a chance to look back, sometimes the issues that mattered to you in your youth might seem like relatively ...

On Flags

by SHERALYN ROMAN As you read this column, today marks the start of PRIDE month, a month which I believe at its core, is simply ...

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