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Sober Vacation
I have returned from what is becoming a yearly sojourn to the cabin on Lake Superior. This year, I took my twenty-six-year-old niece, daughter of my brother Steve, who died in 2013. She’d never been to the cabin. Her father … Continue reading
Posted in 100 Day Sober Challenge, Canada, Ontario, Sober Vacation, Sobriety
Tagged 100-Day Sober Challenge, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Alzheimer's, Birds, Canada, Chipmunks, Lake Superior, Lake Superior Provincial Park, nature, Nature Photography, Nikon D3200, Ontario, Pancake Bay, Photography, Pinguisibi River, Sand River, Sober Vacation, Sobriety
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Lawyers At Sunset
I read an article in the Texas Lawyer yesterday: The Graying Tsunami: As Baby Boom Lawyers Reach 65, More Choose to Work Into the Sunset “In the past 10 years, the state’s over-65 lawyer population has grown from 8 to … Continue reading
Posted in Antidepressants, BigLaw, Canada, Depression, Early Retirement, Lake Superior, Ontario, Photography, Practice of Law, Retirement
Tagged Antidepressants, Attorney, Attorney at Law, BigLaw, Canada, Chipmunks, Depression, Early Retirement, Gitch Gumee, Lake Superior, Lawyers, nature, Nature Photography, Ontario, Overachievers, Photography, Practice of Law, Quitting the Law, Retirement, Retirement from the Law, Sunrise, Sunset, Sunsets, Tom Petty
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Gitche Gumee
I just returned from a short trip to my father’s cabin on Lake Superior in Northern Ontario. The last time I was up in August 2011, my father and brothers were still alive. My parents went up every summer in … Continue reading
Posted in Alzheimer's, Canada, Death and Grief, Dementia, Elderly Parents, Grief, Healing, Lake Superior, Nature, Ontario, Travel
Tagged Alzheimer's, Birds, Canada, Chipmunks, Death, Death and Grief, Dementia, Elderly Parents, Family, Father, Gitche Gumee, Grief, Grieving, Lake Superior, Loons, mental-health, nature, Ontario, outdoors, Photography, Travel, vacation
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Restoring My Soul
I’m lying on the sofa in baby cat’s room. She’s cuddled up to me, purring, as I write. If I go too long without petting her or kissing her head, she presses her wet nose into my arm. The little … Continue reading
Posted in Great Bear Rainforest, Grief, Nature, Sophie, Travel
Tagged Alaska, Animal Rescue, animals, Bella Bella British Columbia, Canada, Cats, Death, Death and Grief, Death of a sibling, Great Bear Rainforest, Grief, Grieving, Grizzly Bears, leukemia, mental-health, nature, Nursing home, Ontario, outdoors, Rainforest, Sailing, Spirit Bear, Stray Cat, Travel, white spirit bear
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A Fish Story
We drove slowly down the abandoned logging road, gravel crunching beneath the car’s tires, from time to time loudly pinging metal. It had been fifteen years since I’d driven down this road with Dad, and back then, Mom and three … Continue reading
Ontario Summers
What I remember most about my childhood is moving vans and boxes. But no matter where we lived—Chicago, Saginaw, Denver, Long Island, Houston, Charlotte—we always spent our summers in the same place: Lake Superior, Ontario. Here are some photos from … Continue reading
Posted in Birds, Blogging, Living Life, Ontario, Travel
Tagged Birds, Blogging, Canada, Lake Superior, nature, Ontario, outdoors, Travel, vacation
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