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Life. Can I bring anything?

March 10, 2021 Louise Sproule

There are times when doing the most simple thing can bring back a memory. I hang up my coat and from the depths of my mind, I hear my mother asking me to hang up my coat. I can recall coming in from school and leaving my coat on a chair. That didn’t last long.

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Unforgiving. Is that what we are?

February 18, 2021 Louise Sproule Ontario

There are days when being a newspaper-owning, thought-leader, idea-generating, digital-transformation-leading expert in hyphens and punctuation seems as if it is only a thin veneer. People say things that hurt. If things go right most of the time, we have to accept that sometimes, things go wrong. Our cutesy winner ribbons on our winning baby photos

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Remembering and looking forward

October 24, 2020 Louise Sproule Ontario

Listening to the sound of a wind-up crib toy that played a lullabye took me back several decades — to

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Fond farewell from the newsroom

March 28, 2017March 28, 2017 Tara Kirkpatrick Vankleek Hill

Today is an incredibly nostalgic day for me, as I sit in the newsroom surrounded by ringing phones and deadlines,

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The rhythm of life

February 15, 2017February 15, 2017 Louise Sproule Prescott-Russell

I walked home from the Saturday night speaker series thinking about rhythm. An informal drumming circle, where at one point,

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When our words fail us

February 8, 2017February 8, 2017 Irene Sensyzcyzn

To be honest, I wasn’t going to write another column about the words that we say and what they mean.

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What we know

January 25, 2017January 25, 2017 Louise Sproule

I stormed into work one morning this week with a piece of my windshield wiper in my hand. My years

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Life is a party.

January 18, 2017January 18, 2017 Irene Sensyzcyzn

Parties. Standing around. Mingling. I think mingling is a myth. There is nothing about me that mingles with someone else.

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Who you calling short?

January 11, 2017January 12, 2017 Louise Sproule

And so, this week, we have a newcomer in our midst. Perhaps: of the worst kind. A thinker. An observer.

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Early lessons from food

January 5, 2017January 10, 2017 Louise Sproule

It was my first time ever eating lunch at school, away from home. I unfolded wax paper to reveal an

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