Giving Thanks

My family has always done the big dinners on the Sundays of the long weekends for Thanksgiving and Easter, largely because my folks didn’t want to have to get up for work after running themselves ragged cooking and eating and cleaning up from our rather ridiculous family meal the night before. Sunday has always been…

On the Bright Side

Last summer ended suddenly with a snowstorm in September. In addition to the brutal end of the warmer weather, the trees didn’t change colour; all the leaves that should have been on fire throughout my neighbourhood and the nearby river valley simply turned brown and fell off to rot under the snow all winter. This…