FIRE AT TOTAL LOSS FARM: the case of the missing mailbox
A CURIOUS PHOTO of this lost object suddenly appeared in my email recently, under the subject line “Total Loss artifact.” I gasped when I opened the attachment.
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Bernie LePage: fourth generation Métis fisherman works southern Georgian Bay
THE DAY STARTS very early for Bernie LePage from late April to early December. He leaves his home in Nobel, Ontario at 3:45 am, then drives 90 minutes south to Thunder Beach, on the tip of the Penetanguishene peninsula.
The story of a tiny Covid obsession
ONCE UPON A TIME there was a girl named Rose. She loved books and read voraciously. Her dad was a trained pressman who eventually became the head of printing at University of Toronto Press, overseeing the production of hundreds of monographs.
He was a Toronto industrialist … until they sent him to the sanatorium
THIS IS MY great-grandfather, Robert Kilgour — a handsome dude! It’s a haunting, melancholic portrait, a black-and-white photograph colourized by hand I believe. His beard and countenance resemble Sigmund Freud, who lived during roughly the same era in a different part of the world.
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My cardiologist never smiles, but I still love him
I’VE COME TO ADORE my cardiologist, even though he sometimes delivers disturbing news and forces me to contemplate my mortality every time I’m in his office. I didn’t always feel this way about him.
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Ragnar Relay Niagara: five thoughts
I RAN THE Ragnar Relay Niagara race on the weekend, my third time doing this particular event and my sixth crack at this type of two-day, team relay race.
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I’m Art Kilgour, a former graphic designer, now retired, living in Guelph, Ontario. This blog has morphed over the years, with lots about farmily, running, parents, and travel, and increasingly now, memoir.
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