December 16, 2007
Just when I think I’m ok with never finding a deep passionate love in my lifetime, and instead ending up in a relationship with a good person who doesn’t quite do it for me on my fanciful levels, or ending up single for always, I watch one of Ross Oscar Knight’s engagement and wedding slideshows [...]
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December 10, 2007
Twenty years ago my family had been living in Canada for just over two years. I can’t pretend to know what life was like for two immigrants, one a full time PhD student and father, the other a mother of three children aged eight, six and a year old, trying to make ends meet [...]
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December 7, 2007
I read a blog entry by someone whose mother is dying, and this got me thinking. Am I the only one who doesn’t find it comforting, when I’m going through a really rough time, to hear someone else’s story about how they or somebody they know has gone through the same thing? Oftentimes, [...]
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December 7, 2007
One of the best surprises I got with this job (which I started in November of 2005) is that the office is closed between Christmas and New Years Day, and usually a few days before Christmas too. We get the same holiday as the local universities get, because our organization is somehow affiliated with [...]
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