What I Learned Today: January 7, 1714 Henry Mill & the Typewriter
Typewriters are storytellers. “If only the walls could talk,” I think as I walk by a Vancouver heritage house that has been meticulously and lovingly returned to its vintage state.…
Celebrating New Year 2021 with Robert Burns
Happy New Year! Mary Jo Malo inspired me today to remember the words of Robert Burns in his poem Auld Lang Syne. Every New Year celebration, we join others across…
I Heard the Bells
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow…
What I Learned today: November 23, 1644 Areopagitica
What I learned today is a new series on Clanmother.com. The idea came out of these past months of living during the Covid19 pandemic. Our travel plans were curtailed and…
Celebrating World Kindness Day 2020
Kindness is defined as the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. In reality, these words do not fully encompass the emotional value of our profound need for kindness. Whether…
Victory Square 2020: We Will Remember
This year, on November 11, 2020, Remembrance Day in Vancouver was held virtually. Instead of the 20,000 people gathered at the cenotaph at Vancouver’s Victory Square, the ceremony was limited…
