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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
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
Posted in Family History, Family Life, getting older
Tagged chiropractic, chronic illness, crackers, doctors, Doogie, generations, workplace accidents
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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
Posted in Family History, Family Life
Tagged 1950's television, Dragnet, Joe Friday, June Cleaver, Leave it to Beaver, real change
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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
Posted in Family History, Family Life, Growing up
Tagged immigration, leaving home, music, Ukrainian exodus, workplace accidents
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Baba’s Beach Podcast #19 – Wrestle A Bear
For more information about the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) please visit www.jdrf.ca To pledge our daughter in the 2007 Walk to Cure Diabetes, please click here. If you’re going to be in Kingston, Ontario for the Podcasters Across Boarders, … Continue reading
Posted in Family Life, JDRF
Tagged chronic illness, emotional costs, family stress, fund raising, JDRF, juvenile diabetes, Type1 diabetes
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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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Baba’s Beach Podcast #17 – Ad Hominem
No, not those horse people from Gulliver’s Travels or words that sound the same but smell different. It’s trying to win an argument by pointing out your opponent is wearing white after Labour Day. A good debate is a wonderful … Continue reading
Posted in Family Life, Travel
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Baba’s Beach Podcast #16 – Boomers
But Granny, you don’t have glaucoma. I remember a Mad Magazine comic about how each generation rebels by turning into the opposite of it’s parents. Hippie parents were shaking their ‘fros and rattling love beads in worry over finding a … Continue reading
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Baba’s Beach #15 – A Tough One
When life hands you lemons… fill in the blank with a greeting card one liner. One of my daughter’s favorite cartoon character says, “When life hands you lemons, dance: dance like there’s a muskrat in your pants.” Actually, life doesn’t … Continue reading
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