Guest talk at the University of Ottawa, Vered Jewish Canadian Studies Program March 18th at 1 o’clock. Book discussion, Hillel Lodge, March 25th at 2.15 Book discussion, Jewish community School May 6th 11.45
Westboro Books – December 14th at 1 o’clock! I will be reading from The Light Keeper at Westboro Books on Sunday December 14th. Bring your kids and the kid in you!
Medals for Seniors Sheila Baslaw While visiting my friend recently, her six-year-old granddaughter Tania, looked at my 91-year-old legs and proclaimed loudly, “You got marks all over your legs.” I took a deep breath and said, “Yes, I do. They, are my medals.” Tania looked down at her perfect legs and said sadly. “I have no medals.” I do not know why the idea of medals popped into my head, but when contemplating this interaction, I decided we seniors deserve medals for managing in today’s world. At a time in our lives when we find our physical strength, mental acuteness, memory, and overall energy often diminishing we are expected to keep up in this whirlwind constantly changing world. More recently we have had to learn to navigate everything in our lives, under the dark cloud of covid. And for those of us who are still living in our own homes there are the constant never ending maintenance challenges demanding our immediate attention. How to do it all with grace and calm? These are some of the challenges I face and my attempts at earning my medals. The challenge of keeping my house and myself presentable Recently my son Lawrence said, “Mom when did you last have a cleaning lady? I said, “You are looking at her”. I then turned to my daughter- in -law who is always the diplomat and asked, “Is it really that bad?” She said, “Get a cleaning lady.” We seniors are used to wearing glasses for reading. But as we get older our vision is often compromised. Maybe we need to think about wearing our glasses all the time to optimize our vision. I had a disturbing recollection. A few weeks ago, I was at a posh event with a friend of mine who is eighty-eight
Our mother was a dedicated professional, Social Worker This is a brief synopsis of her career in social work: . David, Coleman, and Lawrence, proud sons