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I guess we all receive e-mails with inspiring messages.  At least we women get quite a few of these.  My friends know not to send me e-mails that have to be forwarded and if they do that by mistake I take the forwarding part off.  I think we can all decide for ourselves whether we [...]

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Accepting that I may have no friends after I finish this blog, I must in the spirit of fairness provide the other side of the story. Actually it was one of my readers (Curly Q) who convinced me to attempt to see the problems from the other side and expose how we got here.  I [...]

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I‘ve been watching the program “Til debt do us part“, the series on TV where couples apply to get a money makeover from Gail Vaz-Oxlade.  It is incredible to me how seemingly intelligent people can be so incredibly stupid about money.   It’s really quite simple.  If you make $4000 net a month and you spend [...]

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Someone near and dear to my heart asked me to write this blog.  So here it goes Dotane, this bud’s for you as the beer commercial says.  There are times in our lives we need to re-group or even re-build.  That’s when we need to get back to basics.
This year I’ve had family members; friends [...]

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I find it quite fascinating that the majority of people I have encountered over my lifetime either don’t apologize or do it so badly (which is almost worse).  Apologizing is incredibly powerful if done properly and for the right reasons.  The husband who is “sorry” in a churlish tone to try and move on from [...]

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Today I said good bye to my friend Ben Dagenais.  Last Tuesday he literally dropped dead at work.  No efforts to revive him helped and he died Tuesday afternoon when he suffered a fatal heart attack while walking up the stairs after lunch.
This was shocking to all of us who loved him.  He has a [...]

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I‘ve been sick for 12 days now, started coughing up a lung Sunday before last; this after being sick over Christmas holidays.  I am not impressed.  After not missing a single day of work last year, I’m stuck at home with a fever and cough so severe I couldn’t sleep, eight days of increasing fever, [...]

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The most valuable gift you can give a loved one is to join them on their final journey and walk beside them during this time.  It is devastating to hear that a dear friend or loved one is terminally ill.  It is frightening and painful and it even makes us think about our own morality.  [...]

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When I was a young woman in the 70’s, Domtar would not even accept my application as an Order Desk clerk because I wasn’t a man.  Only men could work on the order desk.  I would have liked to sue them but I don’t think you could in those days.  I do remember being shocked [...]

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