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life in Winnipeg is nothing like growing up in an apartment in downtown Toronto.drive 5 minutes north from my in-laws and you could be hunting moose in the wilds of Winnipeg [a slight Campbellishment,...
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Clair de Lunacy (When Comes the Dawn)
I've never known anyone who's committed suicide.This, I realized as I sat writing in our car yesterday afternoon, waiting for my husband to finish up his photo shoot. We had just heard The News. I was...
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Take this Fear and Shove it. (Arach-NO-phobia)
"You are more afraid of spiders than death!?"Oprah goggled her audience in that oh, so "Oprah" way. All eyes, taking us all in quizzically, with that slightly patronizing school ma'am stare.It was a...
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American Beauty
My 1st kidney transplant didn't cost me a dime.I was 19 years old, living in Toronto, Canada. My Mum offered me a kidney. I said, "Yes, please."This was the apex of my stress with The Canadian Health...
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It's Funny 'Cause it's True
It took losing my kidney to find the funny.Let me explain.I was 13 when I was diagnosed with CKD. It was serious business to me. I am an “A-type”. I wanted to graduate top of the class in CKD. I...
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The Star Trek Diaries: Day 1
Captain's LOG: Wednesday July 30th, 2014"I can't believe I'm doing this."This tape played repeatedly in my head as I tore up the I 15 N towards Las Vegas Wednesday afternoon. This tape was loud, but it...
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The Star Trek Diaries: Day 2
Captain's LOG: Thursday, July 31st, 20147:45 am. Las Vegas, Nevada."Are you kidding me with this?"I am never up this early. And I had never been up this early in Vegas, unless I'd been up all night,...
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The Star Trek Diaries: Day 3: Alien Nation
Captain's LOG: Friday, August 1st, 2014I didn't get to play an alien, but I have always felt like one.So it strikes me as appropriate that I booked a role on a TV show about space, aliens and the...
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Suicide is Selfish. (Mork and Me)
Isn't Suicide selfish?The Cynical Sally in me is judging.Judging all of you as I scroll through my Facebook News Feed and read post after post, dodge witty hashtag after lengthy link, about Robin...
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The Star Trek Diaries: Day 4: "Flight" or Fight?
CAPTAIN'S LOG: Saturday, August 2nd, 2014 By the 4th day in Vegas, I thought about drinking.This is not good news for an alcoholic.The movie "Flight" stars the sensational Denzel Washington as Whip...
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Must Love Dogs.
"Do you ALWAYS have to write about being an alcoholic?"The long answer:...
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Dear Mum,When you were 52, you told me you still felt like you were 21.At the time, I thought you meant aging was surprising, that your mirror image was disturbingly different from the picture you...
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Are you grateful?
So it's Canadian Thanksgiving.Thanksgiving conjures up images of a long table laden with rich food, surrounded by laughing members of a functional family who actually like each other. We are told to...
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The Ghost of Christmas Past
Dear Daddy,I don't know that I've ever written you a letter. Maybe one of those adorable notes that a child scribbles in a panic, like, "Dear Daddy. Please hide us or Mummy will spank us." Of course, I...
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