It’s Remembrance Day today. That’s what we call it in Canada. For the past week or so, over half of Canada’s entire population wore red poppy-pins on their lapels as a visual pledge to remind us of all the Canadian soldiers who sacrificed their lives for our freedom. Remembrance Day is a significant day for [...]
Last year, just before Christmas, I spoke at a Ladies Christmas Tea about the wonder of the Season. The title of my talk was “Paper Star.” I shared how the simple paper stars hanging on my tree remind me of my family history and traditions. There’s so much more to the ornament than meets the [...]
Every year I wear a poppy and observe a minute of silence on my birthday – that’s because I was born on Veteran’s Day, which is known in Canada as Remembrance Day. It’s an important day for me, not only because it’s my birthday, but because my Dad is a German World War 2 Veteran. [...]
I haven’t done a terrific job of keeping up with the blog this summer. Part of the reason is that it’s summer… and where I live in Canada, you can’t blink or you’ll miss it. Summers here are spectacular. So there have been trips to the mountains, hiking, long summer evenings around the campfire at [...]
A milestone is a marker set up on a road to show the distance to a certain place. The first recorded milestones were put in place by the Romans along the Appian way, the major roadway of the Roman Empire. The Romans marked the centre of Imperial Rome with the ‘Golden Milestone’ and then marked [...]
