Wendi Stewart – Wendi with an ‘eye’

I was weeding this morning, pulling invaders while the sun was busy elsewhere. Thankfully, I no longer have a lawn to tend to, but I have a few areas of perennials, with hosta and brown-eyed Susans and the like. A small stone wall marks the perimeter of my property; in […]

A close friend has died. It took two years for cancer, a brain tumour specifically, to claim Wally, while we looked on with encouragement and positive thoughts, looked on with fear at times, wanting to beg of those or that which seems to be in charge of our inevitable departure, […]

I have just spent three days walking a few of the many Nova Scotia beaches. They are quite incredible, breathtaking, soul-soothing. I think a love of water is in the blood of most of us who grew up around and in Fort Frances and it would be easy to take […]

In 1940, Virginia Woolf wrote an essay entitled “The Humane Art.” In it she said, “A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.” She was reviewing a biography of Horace Walpole who had written sixteen volumes of letters that earned him the title of historian. […]

I might be cranky. Wait here while I check. I won’t be a minute. Pick up a magazine or pour yourself a coffee or cut the grass. Not my grass; I have retired from having a lawn. Okay, I’m back. I’ve run a few tests and the results were somewhat […]

Remember those perpetual motion gizmos, the little balls that swing back and forth, striking each other to keep the movement constant? Newton’s Cradle it was called, created in 1967 by an English actor and named in honour of Sir Isaac Newton, long-considered the most influential scientist of all time. Physics […]

I am trying to find order in my chaos having just moved. I think “order” fell off the truck somewhere between here and there. As I tried to find a spot for the “essential” things, I did more moving them from one side of the room to the other than […]

Fairy tales have been around since the early 17th century, say some “experts,” while other historians and anthropologists link “Beauty and The Beast” back four thousand years. Suffice to say, fairy tales have been around a very long time. Psychology Today reported in 2014 that fairy tales are told in […]

Father’s Day is coming. I am not sure many of us whose fathers have gone ahead think of the hero of our childhood with more devotion on Father’s Day than any other day. There simply isn’t a single day that goes by without my father in it, in memory now […]

I am moving. I sold my beautiful property with the maple syrup trees and the Ginkgo tree and its history of 270 million years and the Butternut rescued from my friend’s back yard. I leave the blueberries and the blackberries that grow in abundance. I leave my pony buried beneath […]

I am having a mixed green salad for supper tonight. I’m not expecting your applause for my healthy meal choice nor do I think you should care about what I am eating, but I do hope you care about what I am going to tell you about the dressing I […]

I bet you thought I was going to write about dandelions, those yellow works of art that began popping out on my lawn yesterday (May 11) as I write this, like sunshine in the grass. But I’m not going to. I wrote about dandelions in my very first column back […]