Showing posts with label Being 60. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Being 60. Show all posts
Saturday, October 16, 2010

Being Grateful - Being 60 (week 24 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanskgiving.  The weather has given us an extra bit of time to enjoy the outdoors before we hunker down for...
Saturday, October 9, 2010

Anna Sultana, come on down!! - Being 60 (week 23 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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No, I don't think I can bring the dead back to life. But today would've been Ma's 88th birthday and I've been thinking abo...
Saturday, October 2, 2010

There's Always Next Year - Being 60 (week 22 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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Calendars don't mean much to me any more. A week ago, on September 23, it was the first day of Fall.  We even had a full Harvest moon ...
Saturday, September 25, 2010

An Uncelebrated Birthday - Being 60 (week 21 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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Yesterday was my Pop's 86th birthday. It was the second birthday we couldn't call and wish him a Happy Birthday.  He died Jan...
Saturday, September 18, 2010

Who the hell are you? - Being 60 (week 20 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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You think you know somebody. I mean, we've been together since November, 1968.  We've been married since April, 1972.  I thought I...
Saturday, September 11, 2010

Love in Winnipeg - Being 60 (week 19 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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Julie Powell should've come to Winnipeg. Okay...  I got into blogging because of Julie Powell and her first book Julie & Julia .  ...
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Saturday, September 4, 2010

Pray in Winnipeg - Being 60 (week 18 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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Last week I wrote about how food has become more than just something we have to eat to live.  Cookbooks have developed from simple how-to m...
Saturday, August 28, 2010

Eat in Winnipeg - Being 60 (week 17 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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I don't know what's going on lately.   Food is a basic necessity of life.   You starve, you die. Simple. But in the past few year...
Saturday, August 21, 2010

Eat Pray Love in Winnipeg- Being 60 (week 16 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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This year's big chick flic is Julia Roberts' Eat Pray Love .  Last year I saw Julie & Julia and decided to try my hand at blog...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Something New - Being 60 (week 15.5 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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Welcome to the NEW I'm turning 60...!!!! Last weekend was a bit hectic, so I didn't have time to post anything for I'm turning ...
Saturday, August 7, 2010

Hot in Bed - Being 60 (week 14 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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My relatives don't believe me when I tell them our summers are hot.  Hot enough so that we have to use our central air conditioner. ...
Saturday, July 31, 2010

Living La Vida Folklorama - Being 60 (week 13 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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Winnipeg's 41st Folklorama is starting tomorrow. If you haven't been to Folklorama , it's a made-in-Manitoba celebration of al...
Saturday, July 24, 2010

Films, Films, Films - Being 60 (week 12 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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This is the weekend of the ' Gimli Film Festival '.  It's been going on for 10 years and includes everything : features, shorts ...
Saturday, July 17, 2010

Folks on the Fringe of Folklorama - Being 60 (week 11 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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We've just had the Folk Festival.  The Fringe Festival is in full swing and, in a couple of weeks, we'll have Folklorama.   Just an...
Saturday, July 10, 2010

Eclipse that, Kristen Stewart - Being 60 (week 10 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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Usually, when we go for our annual chat with our financial advisor, it's a pretty ho hum affair.  She checks off a bunch of stats just ...
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Saturday, July 3, 2010

We're Not in Debrett's, Either - Being 60 (week 9 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip are in Winnipeg today.  No, they're not going for another water taxi ride.  That trip they took in 20...
Saturday, June 26, 2010

Moving from N.Y. to B.C. - Being 60 (week 8 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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One thing about getting older - almost every day is the anniversary of something.  Today Paul and I were reminiscing about when we left New ...
Saturday, June 19, 2010

Remembering a Death - Being 60 (week 7 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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For some reason Pop decided that everyone had to honor the memory of Uncle Tony by driving upstate and visiting his gravesite every year.  O...
Saturday, June 12, 2010

A Death in the Family - Being 60 (week 6 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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    The anniversary of Robert Kennedy's death always reminds me of Uncle Tony's death, which happened the week after Kennedy's. ...
Saturday, June 5, 2010

Ancestry - not .com - Being 60 (week 5 - by Margaret Ullrich)

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A little while ago Ancestry.com was running a mini-series about celebrities researching their family trees.  Okay, to be honest, it was...