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I get up at 5am, shower, dress and finishing packing the car for the two hour college road trip. We get to the place my daughter says is where orientation is going to be held. Nobody's there. It was the AnimalSciencesBuilding. Then I see a lady walking towards the building. I ask her if she knows anything about student orientation. She did not. My daughter, who went into the Animal...

This is called an Inukshuk. The Inukshuk, which means "likeness of person" was first used by the Inuit People to mark trails, indicate caches of food, locate nearby settlements as well as good places to hunt or fish. Most of the Canadian arctic is dominated year round by permafrost and only has a few natural landmarks which could be used for orientation, that is why Inukshuk are used as...

I was a prolific reader of both fiction and nonfiction up to about 10 years ago or so. At first,...

It’s in the Mind’s Eye When it comes to staying young, A mind-lift beats a face-lift any day. ~Marty Bucella As a teenager, I had a problem wrapping my head around the thoughts of growing older. Images of aging haunted me for years until I met a seasoned senior and asked the question ‘what is aging really like?’...

“Methinks you’re lucky to be alive.” “What do you mean? How so?” “You’re lucky that you never ran into a wall, fell down a flight of stairs or an open manhole. This prescription that the optometrist sent over for you was pretty strong. From the looks of things, he thinks, you’re blind … an accident waiting to happen,” the technician says. Then she hands me a set of...

Roz Savage is a British ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental campaigner....