Category Archives: Family History

Baba’s Beach Podcast #32 – Memories

Memories aren’t the full story for anyone. They are more of a highlight reel of our lives. This is probably why four people will never remember a shared event in exactly the same way.
If at all.
What we remember is more a matter of perspective about an event. How important it was. Like a green stick fracture one summer that my mum and sister don’t remember at all. Yet I clearly remember every pool, lake and sprinkler I had to stay clear of to keep the damn cast dry.
No one even signed it.
Not even my sister, who broke my wrist in the first place….
On the other hand, my own children have grown up and seem to remember a volume of events of which I have no recollection. I’m considering getting a tattoo of Eyore on my right forearm that says, “It’s all my fault.”
I figure that will cover most of the bases.

Thanks to Scarborough Dude for permission to record this from Dicks and Janes Fall edition
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Baba’s Beach Podcast #31 – Orvieto

Wherever you go, whatever you see, it is the food, the wine and the sound of laughter that will be your best souvenir. Continue reading

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Baba’s Beach Podcast #28 – Welcome to middle age

That kid you saw staggering down main street, hooting and puking on Canada Day may well be the doctor you’ll see in emergency next week. He’ll be wearing the white coat and you’ll be the one barfing as a kidney … Continue reading

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“Isn’t that a repeat?”

Yes, it just might be. A year ago, I moved Babasbeach.ca from Libsyn to my hosted plan at Hostpapa. I couldn’t justify paying for hosting to both providers. It’s taken me a while, but over the next two weeks, I’ll … Continue reading

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Baba’s Beach Podcast #27 – Win or lose, it’s the best game in the world…but mostly when we win.

Yes, it is genetic. The Swedes are fast, the Russians are machines but nobody plays this game like the folk that invented it. There is field hockey and even pool hockey but skating on a winter morning, on a pond, … Continue reading

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Baba’s Beach Podcast #25 – Ahem

Just another Yankee with a Maple Leaf on her back-pack While still engaged to mom, dad whisked off to the University of Washington to get a BA in theatre. Mom and dad corresponded faithfully until one day Dad mentioned working in … Continue reading

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Baba’s Beach Podcast #21 – La Meme Chose

The two icons of 50’s TV were Dragnet’s Joe Friday and June Cleaver,domestic goddess on “Leave it To Beaver”. He was all about the facts,while her thing was house, hearth and doting on her sons: especiallythe unfortunately nick-named youngest lad … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday

I woke up this morning and knew that it was a special day but I wasn’t sure why. It was one of those feelings that you just can’t place. Then I remembered. It would have been my Grandmother’s Birthday. Then … Continue reading

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Baba’s Beach Podcast #20 – The Journey

I grew up in a house that was filled with music. Despite the budget considerations of raising four children on a printer’s salary, there was never a problem finding money for a piano, a saxophone, and a clarinet for us … Continue reading

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Baba’s Beach Podcast #18 – Life with MacGyver

A few years ago while sitting in a coffee shop in Victoria’s laid back equivalent of the Upper East Side, Gordon Head, I overheard two young moms, upwardly mobile, impeccably dressed, comparing pictures from a child’s birthday party. Every second … Continue reading

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