Gloria, All In

Neil loved Fluffy, no doubt about that! Fluffy joined our family around 1980. We bought him at a local pet shop, but I’m pretty sure he was a puppy mill dog. We didn’t know about puppy mills at the time,…

It was October 31, 2015. We didn’t know at the time, but this was to be Nanny’s last birthday. I made her favourite meal, put her “best” tablecloth on the table, and bought her favourite dessert–a chocolate “baby cake.” We…

Ashleigh is dressed and ready to go to the spring prom. The dress is perfect, the hair is gorgeous, and those rosy cheeks are so pretty. She must have been the Belle of the Ball!

“And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some…

There weren’t too many pictures of me when I was little because not everyone had a camera, and the cost of film and development was not in the budget. That said, here is a photo of me at age two…

In 1960, Nan and Pop owned a house in Orleans. In those days, Orleans was country, with dirt roads and no buses. Nanny needed a car to get to her job as a dental assistant in Manor Park, so Pop…

Swimming pools were pretty much the best part of our summers. We swam morning, noon and night. Angie and Neil had friends over to swim most days, and I bought more Popsicles and made more hamburgers than I could count.…

Here I am at age 10 or 11 at St. François School in Orleans, 1960. (I’m the kid right in front). Orleans was all country, then, and we didn’t have a school bus. We had a very long walk on…