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Why has my heart always stayed positive?
There was something magnetic about the sound of chalk scraping against the green blackboard. Whilst other children saw algebra as a maze of obstacles or a dead language designed…
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The Labyrinth of my First Job.
When our friends at Silver Bloggers @hive-106316 launched the challenge to talk about our first job, I stared at the screen for a long time.…
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When the Heart is Renewed at Seventy.
Sitting in front of the large window in my home in Canada, I watch the landscape transform with patience that only the years have allowed me to understand. Turning seventy is not…
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The day Math made me daring.
**It was 1968. At the time, I was a 13-year-old teenager with boundless energy, lofty dreams, and a natural aptitude for numbers that sometimes got me into trouble. I was…
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I remember my first day of school as if it were yesterday.
I remember my first day of school as if it were yesterday At my age, lucid, I remember my first day of school as if it were yesterday. That first day of school at the San…
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Tuning the Instrument: Languages, Piano, and the Pursuit of the Perfect Dream.
Tuning the Instrument: Languages, Piano, and the Pursuit of the Perfect Dream. As winter still blankets my neighbourhood in Ontario in white, and I prepare for the calendar…
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The Silverbloggers Chronicles #28: The eyes with which I learned to feel the world.
In addition to my parents, those special people who are so important to every child, there was a woman named Esperanza, whom I consider my second mother. I don't know how…
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The scent that envelops my home.
There's a classic question that always comes up when you want to really get to know someone: ‘If you were stranded on an island, what food could you eat every day without getting…
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From opulence to resistance.
When I read the topic of Silver Bloggers' initiative #24 on ‘The Silverbloggers Chronicles — Family holiday traditions’, I knew immediately what I had…