First Person

How can I capture Mom’s long life on a tombstone?

My abortion was the only way I could look after myself and my young son

My wife’s dementia has changed my life - sometimes for the better

What’s with all the dogs on dates? I’m at the end of my leash

We’ve collected antiques for decades but now it’s time to sell. And that’s tough

Turn 60, will tango! How I fell in love with the Argentine dance

What I learned from reading Mum’s (really) old cookbooks

Hospice care helped my dad, and the entire family

This is no dead-end job: why I enjoy selling burial plots

I’m a psychotherapist who can’t seem to take her own advice

Oh no! My favourite restaurant just closed

As a millennial mom, I’m torn between paying attention to my child and my phone

Our soldier father left a son in Europe - a generation later, we finally got to meet him

Wars leave a multi-generational sense of loss that seeps into your soul

If my father’s military bag could talk, oh the stories it might tell!

A trip to Europe’s war memorials renewed a pride in Canada I was reluctant to acknowledge

The moment we heard where Percy was buried, he became alive for us again

Talking with a veteran let me cross a bridge into the past

How will I remember Gran? The laughter from our aborted driving lessons

My parallel parking skills helped me make two unusual friends in downtown Regina

I’m not a digital nomad but I may never go back to so-called ‘real life’

I no longer hide on Halloween night, here’s why I am shelling out again

Halloween helped me get my kids to listen to classical music

The woman who taught me that guardian angels don’t always come with wings

Yes, laundry is my true superpower

Taking my kid to a Taylor Swift concert turned me from skeptic to Swiftie mom

Did my daughter inherit autism from me?

Learning to ride a bike as an adult makes me feel like anything is possible

I deserve a medal, simply for surviving old age

Moving to the country was the change I never knew I needed

How Scopa, the Italian card game, brought us closer together

My grandkids don’t know how to play outside and it’s maddening