COLUMN: High School Adventure Challenge in its third year A love of the underdog gives us hope for ourselves. I often find myself rooting for the underdog. Whether it is the sports team with the odds stacked against them, or the unlikely new celebrity found on Britain’s got talent, I am cheering wildly from the sidelines. Their perseverance stirs our …
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Sofa diving could be the new sport for procrastinators everywhere
I have now taken procrastination to new heights (or perhaps I should say depths). Avoiding the work I needed to do, I decided to clean under the sofa cushions. Luckily, I feel justified in having done so. My daughter was home sick, eating a tea biscuit, while lying on the couch. Crumbs went everywhere. I got out the hand vacuum …
In our mourning and grief we both lose and gain
This past week I find myself mourning three people I didn’t know: one child, one columnist, one professor. Two are from our community, one is not. Regarding the child, I wrote once before about the loss of a child, a tragic burden to their family and our community, because with that child’s life goes all the hopes and dreams everyone …
We’ll have to coin a word for our newly found fear of plastics
Editorial & Opinion, Wednesday, May 28, 2008 The Oxford English Dictionary has no word for fear of plastics. In light of recent headlines, I’d like to coin plastiphobia or plastipanic, because I know I’m not alone in questioning the predominance and safety of some plastics in our world. It may have started with all of the product recalls for plastic …
When your child stops breathing the world stands still
Editorial & Opinion, Wednesday, February 20, 2008 No one should ever have to witness their baby stop breathing and turn blue – ever. I think there should be a law against it, strictly enforced by God (regardless of which god or gods your may subscribe to). My world changed, and a small part of me died last week, when at …
Better safety measures are needed to protect kids on school buses
Editorial & Opinion, Wednesday, September 5, 2007 Last week, I accompanied my daughter to the mall to take her first ride on a school bus. The event was hosted by Laidlaw to teach kids about school bus safety and for a photo opportunity for the parents (to preempt delays on the first day of school?) The bus was just as …