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31 and Counting

Wayne and I

  I was on time – I really was.  I will boast that probably one of the historical weddings you would have attended was ours.  Of course, Wayne was waiting for me!  That’s fashionable, right? Well, we were graced with a hot summer day and on Saturday, June 17 I arrived in the limo to Revivaltime […]

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Believe, hope and don’t give up!

Trees

Recently we had an event themed, The Gift of Hope. Dictionary.com states the verb, ‘hope,’ means: to look forward to with desire and reasonable confidence.  Hope is something we all want to have at all times. We get up in the morning, expectant of how our day may progress.  There are plans we make, and for the […]

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Transition

October 7, 1972, on BOAC airlines we landed at Pearson International Airport, and Pierre Elliott Trudeau was the Prime Minister. We were excited and scared. We stood out and we knew we were different. We were part of the Jamaican/English/Caribbean minority who were coming to Canada, and for some reason people felt it very necessary […]

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