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Easy Come Easy Go: What My Honeymoon Taught Me About Ebbs and Flows in Life
(By Becky Martin – Kitchener, Ontario, Canada) We had just gotten married. I was all of 25 years old; we had moved back to Canada from Taiwan after 2.5 years. We were young, we were in love, we had inflated egos, we could do anything. We had only been back in Canada for a month […]
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The accidental purse snatcher: When good deeds go punished
(By Breckon Angulo – Whitby, Ontario, Canada) Sometimes a good deed goes punished … and that’s okay! This is a story that I laugh at now but at the time I was trying with every muscle in my socially anxious body to keep from crying from pure embarrassment. I live in Whitby, Ontario with my […]
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What Taiwan Taught Me About Always Challenging Myself
(By Becky Martin – Kitchener, Ontario, Canada) Taiwan, the land of spiders as big as your face, cobras blocking your dusty hiking path, cicadas as long as your finger and so loud that in their crescendo they force you to cover your ears to prevent pain from their intense singing. It’s a place that has […]
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Mean, Mean Marge: Encouraging children to follow their dreams
(By Bryna Jones — Toronto, Ontario, Canada) Growing up, I wasn’t particularly athletic. Early failure in Phys. Ed. class (yes, I was the girl who was always picked last for the team) brought on a chronic fear of team sports, and physical exertion in general. I was quite content faking sick in the Nurse’s office […]
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The Legal Ramifications of Vomit: A lesson in perseverance
(By Rob Shirkey — Kitchener, Ontario, Canada) It wasn’t funny at the time… I was so nervous the first time I was in court. Outwardly, I did well. I won. A senior lawyer even paid me a high compliment on my cross-examination. But while I may have looked composed, my stomach was in knots. I […]