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"Life is What Happens.....

....to you while you are busy making other plans.” Such is the famous line from the song, Beautiful Boy, by John Lennon. As I have recently shared with you, my life has changed drastically over the past few months as I moved out of the city and adopted a life in big sky country. However, I...

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  • Townie Profile: How Life Has Challenged TMR Employee Robert Babajko

    15 Octobre 2010 - 14 h 58

    Sometimes, ordinary people are forced to face extraordinary circumstances. Sometimes, those circumstances are difficult beyond imagination, and we wonder how anyone can surmount them. This week, I am privileged to write about someone amongst us...

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  • Birds of a Feather: TMR Couple Shares their Love of Bird Watching

    8 Octobre 2010 - 7 h 48

    Claire and Daniel Murphy are long time Townies; Claire has lived here since she was five years old and, as a couple, she and Daniel, her husband of 36 years have lived in the same TMR home since 1981.

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    Birds of a Feather: TMR Couple Shares their Love of Bird Watching

  • The Big 5-0 (part 2)

    29 Septembre 2010 - 16 h 11

    Last week, in an attempt to communicate what I wanted to share about what I have learned about life after half a century, the emphasis was on the mundane but supremely important notion of maintaining good health in order to live life as fully as...

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  • The Big 5-0 (part 1)

    24 Septembre 2010 - 2 h 23

    And so another countdown to a milestone begins. As I write this week’s column, it is Monday, the last Monday of my forties. Next one that comes around, Townie is turning the big 5-0. It’s big, methinks, because I am pretty well certain that at...

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  • Getting Away From It All

    18 Septembre 2010 - 0 h 31

    I’ve never been to a county fair, and the only impressions of them I had were from watching The Wonderful World of Disney every Sunday night with my family, way, way back when. It’s a great memory; my mom would cook up grilled cheese...

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    Getting Away From It All

  • Ladies who Laugh Lunch leaves Townies in Stitches

    8 Septembre 2010 - 16 h 33

    Well, she did it again. Glenmount resident and former Townie, Terry Diab, drifts further away from the day of her cancer diagnosis two years ago and a successful journey through treatment to organize the second edition of the Ladies Who Laugh...

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    Ladies who Laugh Lunch leaves Townies in Stitches

  • Vera Zakher’s Worry Free Treats

    1 Septembre 2010 - 12 h 25

    Townie Vera Zakher has cooked up a dream. It’s amazing how things roll when they are meant to be and are pursued with integrity, and after a couple of years of experimentation and dedication, she is coming out with her first book. I can assure...

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    Vera Zakher’s Worry Free Treats

  • Up, Up, and Away? (Part 2)

    24 Août 2010 - 10 h 44

    I left you hanging last week, dear readers, didn’t I? For two days in a row, wind conditions did not allow me to take flight in my hot air balloon adventure. Hence, for the third consecutive morning, I set my alarm for 3am, and once again set...

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    Up, Up, and Away? (Part 2)

  • Up, Up, and Away?

    17 Août 2010 - 15 h 07

    Driving down the highway last week, I saw a flock of hot air balloons sailing across the sky. Upon inquiring, I discovered that there is an annual hot air balloon festival in St-Jean. Mhmmm, I pondered, that might be an interesting event to take...

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  • The Heart of our Town

    13 Août 2010 - 14 h 09

    Mid August. Already. Sitting on the terrasse at Dupond mulling over a subject matter for my column when I run into Townies Ain Rosin and Elke Dinter, friends of mine from back when they were volunteers at the TMR Volunteer Centre. I hadn’t seen...

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    The Heart of our Town

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