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The Lansdowne Letters: Freeze-up Worries
My parents experienced difficult challengeswhen I was growing up, but they shelteredme from much that was happening.I had a wonderful childhood.My Fifth Birthday PartyMy one-year-old sister Donnie is...
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The Lansdowne Letters: Cruel Realities
Parents tell their children many things,but they never know what impacttheir lessons and stories will ultimately have.It's fascinating how the same parentscan tell the same siblings the same things,and...
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The Lansdowne Letters: The Last Plane ~ Or Not???
I wasn't up in Lansdowne Houseas freeze-up approached in the fall of 1960,but I remember the following springand the approach of break-up clearly.Gossip, speculation, and story-tellingswirled around...
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The Lansdowne House Letters: What's Going On?
My sister Barb serendipitously solveda problem that has been eating away at me:what to do with my northern postswhile I am knocking off a Bucket List item.Barb and I on the Bay of Fundy, Westport,...
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The Lansdowne House Letters: Shacks Filled with Babies Revisited
My sister Barb suggested that I repostShacks Filled with Babies,a post I first published on October 22, 2012.This might seem unrelated to my Northern posts,but it really isn't.Both of my parents were...
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The Lansdowne Letters: Human Refuse 1 Revisited ~ The Very Beginning
Another journey begins today: November 27, 2012A long journey that I have carried in my heart for over fifty years.I am going to tell my story of my sojourn in the North.It changed my life forever.It...
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The Lansdowne Letters: Human Refuse 2 Revisited
While I continue to chase Bucket List dreams,here is a repost of my second Lansdowne House postfirst published on November 28, 2012:Where to begin?I planned to go to bed last night at a reasonable time...
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Home!!!
Home!!!No matter where I travel,it's always exciting to walk through the doorand be HOME!After ... a four hour plane ride, Alaska Airlines in Anchorage a ten hour train ride, Train from Denali to...
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Summer Adventures # 1: On the Road Again
Do you like road trips?I sure do!And I still do after 3800 miles of highway.Or 6116 klicks of black ribbon.First Photo of the TripNot an Auspicious Beginning!The Ever-Patient and I had not done a...
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The Lansdowne House Letters: Human Refuse 3 Revisited ~ A Northern Teacher...
Back again with another repostof my earliest northern posts.It was a couple of months beforeI could tackle Human Refuse 3,but I did so on February 1, 2013.I'll be home and publishing new material...
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Scavenger Hunt: July 2015 ~ Alaska and the Inside Passage
I'm sorry I missed June's scavenger hunt,I didn't get the post finished before a long tripto isolated places with questionable or no internet.Margerie Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and...
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The Lansdowne Letters: Human Refuse 4 Revisited ~ Indoctrination
A long trip chasing Bucket List Dreamsseemed like a great idea,but it has wreaked havoc on my blogging.It's 1:23 am on June 23, 2015and I'm reposting the nextin a series of my earliest Lansdowne...
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Scavenger Hunt: June, 2015 ~ Potpourri
I was going to scrap the June huntbecause I couldn't finish it in timeas I was traveling.But then somehow a partial post published, and I discovered it when people began posting comments!So an...
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IWSG: August 5, 2015 ~ Living the Dream
It's the first Wednesday of the month ~ the day when members of theInsecure Writer's Support Groupshare their writing strugglesand offer their encouragementand support to other members.To visit the...
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The Lansdowne Letters: Human Refuse 5 Revisited ~ Heading Out
I didn't dare mention how long I'd be traveling,first to Alaska and then to Nova Scotia;but the end of my trips are in sight!Here is a repost of my Human Refuse 5 post,first published on 4/15/13:Hi...
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Hooking Rugs in Smith's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada
Spending time with my family in Smith's Cove during the summerwould not be complete without a visit to the local museum.It's filled with many things from my family's past for generations.Smith's Cove...
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The Lansdowne Letters: The A to Z Challenge That Wasn't Revisited
Home again finally!I'm closing out my revisited postswith this A, B, C postfirst published on May 7, 2014:I’ve been writing in one form or another much of my life.Now that I’m retired, I’m finally...
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Nova Scotia: Where This Photographer Loves to Play with Texture
I take a lot of photographs.(I can hear the guffaws of my siblings and my husband at that statement).The Digby WharfNova Scotia, CanadaWestport, Brier IslandI can't help it: The world is...
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Special Time with a Four-Footed Friend in Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova...
Lucky me!Someone special recently led me along one of her favorite jauntsin Point Pleasant Park at the tip of the Halifax Peninsula.Come On Weesie, Let's Go!Big brown eyes,fetching blond highlights,an...
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The Lansdowne Letters: A School Party
My brother, and I were really curious about life in Lansdowne House in Northern Ontario.We knew at some point we would join our father there.My younger sisters, aged six, four, and oneunderstood less...
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