You can’t really say that fillings are Susanna Mosli’s life. As a mobile dental hygienist, she identifies cavities, cleans teeth, suggests when people should take themselves off to a dentist. And because she has her Sparkling Smiles mobile service, she arrives at your home and takes care of the entire family while you get on…
Wednesday evenings are casual knitting nights at Eliza’s Buttons and Yarn. Huddled around a small table at the back of this lovely shop, any number of women gather on a semi-regular basis, projects in hand. Elizabeth Fallone is there to help solve problems with a pattern, techniques that ease a dropped stitch, or just plain…
When Georgian College opened its School of Fine Arts in 1971, it attracted excellence all round… terrific professors—all practicing artists—and gifted students. The school was small, its fledgling campus in the empty fields of Barrie’s east end. But ambition was mighty. Karen Smith, head of the School of Fine Arts, attracted a stable of talent….
Funny how good things come from bad things. I’m working with a group of clients these days as we learn how to recognize bad things and wallow in them and let them own us briefly, and then find the gift in there. It’s a process taught to me by a good friend a few years…
“We live in the best time, in the best country, in the best city.” Frank McDevitt, 58, says it that simply. He’s sprawled on a wooden chair in a back office at St Mary’s Catholic Church, a church he’s ‘fathered’ in the religious sense for 12 years. Father Frank leaves St Mary’s on June 23,…
When my dear father in law died five years ago, we didn’t know what to do with his scooter. It meant the world of freedom to him and it represented a huge outlay in cash. I see scooters like his sitting on front lawns, ‘For Sale’ signs taped to the steering wheel. And I’m sure…
The I Love Me Club was just the beginning. When 7 year old Mackenzie Oliver questioned her mom about why a classmate felt nobody loved her because she was ‘ugly’, Ingrid Oliver had a discussion about self esteem and beauty and confidence beginning in one’s heart. Mackenzie took it a step further and the I…
Okay, stay with me here. I want you to imagine this. You’re standing in your front yard. Or your back yard. And it’s full, everywhere, of trilliums. White trilliums. Deep red trilliums. Full. You run to Robinson’s Hardware to buy a huge can of concentrate Weed Be Gone. You mix up the concentrate with water,…
When Katherine and Gerry Parent looked at their teenage kids last year, it was a huge wake-up call. Daughter Janelle, son Matthew are finishing high school and heading for post secondary experiences. They’ll both leave in September. Katherine and Gerry decided to tick off one big item on their ‘bucket list.’ They toted up their…
Earth Day. It came and it went, signified by lots of yellow garbage bags at the edges of parks and school yards around the city. Kind souls scooping up waste on the public walking trails. Classes of students and teachers doing roadsides around their schools. Cleanup was everywhere! Our street was littered by a huge…