Personal Blog 11 Years Gone, 10 Years Gifted July 2nd, 2002, in the early hours, my mother left her body. It was a profound loss, as the years…
education The Teachers We Need **written wearing all hats: mother, educator, student** Last year, my son had a difficult grade-9 history experience. His teacher had…
Hockey Sometimes It’s About More Than The Win (let me get this out of the way – most people reading this will already know that the Habs lost…
Personal Blog Unconditional POST BEGUN TUESDAY OCT. 16, 2012 As many of you know, Theo has a chronic back problem; he has herniated…
Hockey There’s No Crying in Hockey…or is there? It’s January 12th. We’ve already played half the season’s games and are wallowing at the bottom of the standings. We…
Hockey Late to the Party: Through My Eyes Sometimes, when you walk into a party later into the evening, you see things differently. By the time you arrive,…
Hockey Reaping Rewards in Rivalry When I answered the call to enter Eric Engels’s blog-writing contest (“what does the Habs/Bruins rivalry mean to you?”), I…
Hockey Panic, Negativity, and Bandwagon Jumpers We lost in a 7-0 blowout to Boston, last night, of all teams. The head-hanging, the hair-pulling, the band-wagon jumping,…
Hockey Opposite Side of the Emotional Coin There have been a lot of emotions running rampant in my city this week. Since The Hit on Canadiens’ forward…
Hockey Habs Loyalty Okay, I’m coming up to my first anniversary of Total Habs Fanaticism. That would be the turning point in my…