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When I started with my family tree, I silently hoped for some well known people to be my ancestors. Wouldn’t it be fun, to find someone famous. I was alone in this ambition, as my sensible family couldn’t care less. Thanks to internet, I found a lot of names, and I even found out one of my ancestors was the sister of a famous poet, (Bredero) wow, but I couldn’t get...

I'm attending my first gay wedding today. I'm attending my first same-sex wedding today. I'm attending my first homosexual wedding today. What is the politically correct term for such a wedding? Who cares? Frankly, I don't understand the furor and uproar over same-sex marriages. I'm at the wedding of two women who have been together for thirty-three years. As our breathtakingly...

The mare stepped nimbly over the fallen limbs and piles of leaves as the highflying threads of clouds twisted loosely around the fading rays of the late November sun. A lone dove sounded its call as the horse and rider crossed a small rain-swollen creek and scrambled to the flat beyond. Two shots rang out. The mare, high-spirited to begin with, plunged from beneath the sudden dead weight of...

As the snowstorm was hitting on our island yesterday morning, not many people went to the harbour to see what the ferry brought in. That I was there as it arrived, was because I was just taking a walk to stay fit, but as the weather was much worse than I thought, I decided to seek shelter near the terminal and watch the ferry disembark. There were only three old men doing the same thing, it is...

Three Baby Boomers in Mexico "The Tall Boys Band" While many in...

“Never say you can’t do it even if you’ve never done it before and probably can’t,” Stewart, my husband says every time I face a new challenge and freak out. He doesn’t share my fear of failure. He actually enjoys taking on a dare.Many, many years ago, Stewart found two ceramic African masks near the trash. The black enamel paint was badly chipped on both and there was a crack down...

When I worked in television news, we always had a segment of the newscast to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the year. Although I'm not working in news these days, I still have some thoughts on the stories I saw and read during 2008. Here are my picks for those stories that were interesting and even weird to some degree: 1) A Beverly Hills doctor faces accusations that he...