I liked every third Tuesday at work in Springhill, Nova Scotia. I had the afternoons off because I worked the weekend before at the Record newspaper. It was a small weekly where I wrote stories and took pictures. You were expected to report on everything. I was up for the challenge, even though I'm not a big sports fan.

I'm not a big fan of going to the doctor's, either, but that morning I had a follow-up appointment. As I saw it, an hour off in the morning and an afternoon off --…

I asked myself...If I could have just one wish (for me), what would it be?

I pondered this question for a long time............................

I thought, would I want to always have my true love (and never be lonely or wanting his comforts); or

Would I want to be healthy as I grow old (to see my family grow up); or

Would I want riches (so that I would not have financial stresses)?

I then began to weigh these three…

My father has a lot of freckles on his back. From shoulders to tailbone, he's covered like a leopard. Funny, he's not a redhead like my sister, his oldest daughter. He's Friar Tuck bald with salt and pepper hair, most of it on his eyebrows. He tans well enough. He gets the farmer's tan from working outside on the lawn and his cars and from golfing.

Mom says he should take his shirt off when he's cutting the grass so he can get an even tan. He does, but he always manages the farmer's…

Trust the Universe. What you think about comes about.

The CO-OP student at my work is graduating from high school soon and my boss thought it would be nice to give her a list of "life lessons." The only one I could come up with is the following:

"Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars." - Casey Kasem

I used this quote as my send-off in my high school yearbook. Emily happens to be graduating from Charlottetown Rural High, my…