BOOMERS BY YVONNE BLACKWOOD
The word Boomers sounds more buoyant than Seniors or Old Folks, wouldn’t you say? But who are these darling Boomers? Do they really boom? You bet your pension cheque they do. Baby Boomers were born between the years 1946 to 1964, and this generation is the fastest growing in the...
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WRITING & A WEDGE OF LIFE Captain Samuel Wallis landed at Matavai Bay in Tahiti in 1767. Captain James Cook watched the transit of Venus from there in April 1769. A fascinating lighthouse called Point Venus, was built there in 1867 to commemorate the anniversary of the arrival...
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YVONNE’S BLOG #Lighthouse: The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines lighthouse as: “A structure (such as a tower) with a powerful light that gives continuous or intermittent signal to navigators.” Lighthouses have always fascinated me. In my travels around the world, I have seen many. I will share photographs of a few of them in...
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Ah, January! A new month. A new year. It’s time to start building new memories. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines hoarding as: “psychology: the compulsion to continually accumulate a variety of items that are often considered useless or worthless by others accompanied by an inability to discard the items without great...
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