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• TURNING POINT: Key relationships
  By Beth Irvine Now, why should I lose my mind when it’s much simpler to lose my keys? It is well known that when you lose your keys, you ...
• TURNING POINT: The grandkids are coming!
  By Beth Irvine Did Gram feel this excited when she knew we were coming? We would come to the Valley to visit quite often—we lived just a ...
• TURNING POINT: A picture of the future
  By Beth Irvine Here is a Picture And Yet This is the Way We Shall Live in the Near Future You will fly clear across the United States in 20 ...
• TURNING POINT: Pin curls and French rolls
  By Beth Irvine My scalp still prickles with the sensation of wisps of hair twisted in curls and anchored with criss-crossed bobby pins. Mum put ...
• TURNING POINT: Rites of spring
  BY BETH IRVINE Rodents and income tax: it doesn’t sound that odd, even when you put them together. In some way they seem to belong in ...
• TURNING POINT: Horticulturalist, grandmother, spy!
  By Beth Irvine Mrs. Pollifax, spy of the Cold War, wearer of extravagant hats, adventurer summa cum laude! She has entertained and educated ...
• BETH IRVINE: March Break tête-à-tête
  Not that we’ve completely outgrown the Discovery Centre but, now that the youngest is 18, it’s challenging to fill a March Break day in the city ...
• Sewing: a soothing task
  Buttoned down. We still use this term, though its’ meaning is paler than it was 20 years ago. Maybe you practice the skill of sewing on buttons? ...
• TURNING POINT: What's in a name?
  BY BETH IRVINE What's in a name? Take the name Fiona, for example. As a word in Celtic languages, it is translated as meaning "fair" as "pale or ...
• BETH IRVINE: Bites and bits
  BY BETH IRVINE So far, I have escaped the bites myself, and thankful I am, too. They are such torments and disturbers of ...
• BETH IRVINE: Cloudy - sunny - gusting
  BY BETH IRVINE You know how it is this time of year: you can’t leave the house without checking what’s predicted for the weather ...
• BETH IRVINE: On another note
  BY BETH IRVINE How we worked to perfect our pieces for the music festival! It was always cool to be out on a school night, and weird to be ...
• BETH IRVINE: Hope
  BY BETH IRVINE Hope was my grandmother’s name. Was it my great-grandmother who named her? Was Hope’s arrival “something desirable” or ...
• BETH IRVINE: Character first
  BY BETH IRVINE When it’s time to polish up the old resume, there are lots of helps out there. The Career Resource Centre (now located at 11 ...
• BETH IRVINE: Run, run as fast as you can
  BY BETH IRVINE Once upon a time, a youth awoke from a night of revelry to find a monkey tied to his back. The monkey twisted the youth’s ...
• BETH IRVINE: Conflict resolution
  BY BETH IRVINE It was challenging to get to work that morning, that first day back on the job after the holiday season. Oh, not because of ...
• BETH IRVINE: Eye spy
  BY BETH IRVINE Kings County Advertiser/Register One thing I am always thankful for is the ability to see. I can’t imagine what it would be ...
• BETH IRVINE: All wrapped up
  BY BETH IRVINE There’s nothing left to do but the wrapping... and wrapping is the best part of getting ready for Christmas! It is very ...
• BETH IRVINE: Christmas countdown
  BY BETH IRVINE We’ve been helping with the cake And licking out the pan And wrapping up our packages as neatly as we can. And we have hung our ...
• BETH IRVINE: What's new?
  BY BETH IRVINE There’s always something new, isn’t there? When I was a child, skunks were mythical creatures, though Dad told some ...
• BETH IRVINE: Working it out
  BY BETH IRVINE There are some things you just can’t do alone. The impact of persistence and positive thinking will not push you through to the ...
• BETH IRVINE: The perfect cake
  BY BETH IRVINE Have you seen the recipe that’s been making the rounds on the email, the one called “Cake in a Mug?” Sometimes it’s titled “The ...
• BETH IRVINE: Raveled
  BY BETH IRVINE Stockings were no comfort to me, not ever. As an instrument of worry and torment, they made it impossible to pay ...
• BETH IRVINE: Ubiquitous
  BY BETH IRVINE They’re everywhere. There’s no escape. It would have been better if I’d never been told about them! I ...
• BETH IRVINE: WCA?
  BY BETH IRVINE Why don't we have afternoon tea in the crawl space under my front room? Once you're in through the 28" by 13" window ...
• BETH IRVINE: If
  BY BETH IRVINE Conjunctions - unplanned for, unwished for, unexpected - make life full of surprise and, sometimes, remind us we live on borrowed ...
• BETH IRVINE: Berry good!
  BY BETH IRVINE Who doesn’t love it? When you arrive home to discover someone has brought home the berries, I mean. It’s no ...
• BETH IRVINE: Wait for it
  BY BETH IRVINE It’s so easy, once the idea comes. There’s no point in applying the seat to the chair (the most essential part of the ...
• BETH IRVINE: Circus tricks along the way
  BY BETH IRVINE What is that word people use when they plan to do one thing and end up doing something else? And the something else is ...
• BETH IRVINE: Windy landings
  BY BETH IRVINE The sky was as speckled with clouds as a spring meadow with sheep. Like sheep let out for their first frolic, the clouds ...