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Dog Days of Summer
This marks my third summer signalling that the dog days are here. It’s hard for me to believe that A Considerable Age has existed this long. "Dog days…
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Alice Goldbloom
20
Family Dynamics
My brother hates me
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Virginia Fisher Yaffe
23

June 2024

Just Grow Up
Words of wisdom for us all
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Judith Newman
46
Defying Timelines: I Waited and I Won
And it's never too late
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Dana Kobernick
33
Saving My Dad's Soul
Catholic education began in Grade One and continued into Grade Two when we would make our first communions. By the age of six, I was a missionary in the…
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John Aylen
10
Art Appreciation
It’s a common enough fantasy: finding a forgotten artwork at a yard sale or in the dusty basement of a relative who has passed on and whom you didn’t…
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Bryan Demchinsky
18
Miss Tunker's Rules
Every afternoon at a quarter to three, Miss Tunker would open her tub of Nivea and warm up her hands with the thick cream, its scent triggering us to…
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Anna C Rumin
27

May 2024

The Intended
I scanned the crowd coming down the escalator in the arrivals level at Dorval airport. I was meeting three men. Arriving were two men from the Berlin…
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Gina Roitman
22
Let Me Tell You About Geddo
This week, as the days get longer and the sun melts whatever little snow remains in this weird and warm Ottawa winter, I’ve found myself thinking of my…
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Noha Beshir
26
The Year I Got a Coffee Maker for Mother's Day
For those of us who have experienced the extraordinary gift of motherhood, do we truly require the Hallmark reminder of the occasion in May known as…
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Donna Thompson
20
Nanny Got Punked
Well...almost.
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Virginia Fisher Yaffe
13

April 2024

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