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Carol’s Corner: You said, what?

November 20, 2015

You said, what? English is an extraordinary language, with the number of words totalling about 750,000 give or take ...

Carol’s Corner: Act II

October 24, 2015

Most universities measure success by the number of successful graduates. ACT II at Toronto’s Ryerson University is ...

Carol’s Corner: The Last Roads of Summer

September 26, 2015

Now that you have stopped groaning, I bolster my case by quoting Alfred Hitchcock, who said “Puns are the highest ...

Carol’s Corner: Community is Where you Make It

September 14, 2015

The tennis club where I attempt to persuade that little yellow ball to skim over the net and land approximately in ...

Carol’s Corner: Dispatch from Chautauqua

August 28, 2015

I write this on one of the state-of-the art computers in the Smith Memorial Library in – you guessed it – ...

Carol’s Corner: Summer Camp for Grown-ups in an American Utopia

August 14, 2015

In 1985, a year after we moved from Montreal to Toronto, a friend called and invited us to spend a few days in ...

Carol’s Corner: Once We Were Campers

June 18, 2015

ONCE WE WERE CAMPERS. Not sloshing through the swamp, portaging past the rapids, or beating our way through the bush ...

Carol’s Corner: Doing My Civic Duty

June 4, 2015

A few months ago, into my mailbox popped a letter with the return address: Sheriff’s Office, Ministry of the ...

Carol’s Corner: My Best Friend

May 8, 2015

Growing up in Ahuntsic, my best friend, two-and-a-half years older than I, had the unique nickname of Twidge. Her ...

Carol’s Corner: Me and My Underwood

April 25, 2015

I have a cousin who sends me interesting tidbits via the internet, knowing full well that I’d never find them on my ...