I am happy to rejoin my Ontario friend, Shonna, who is the very wonderful, creative hostess of the Canadian Reading Challenge theme. Here is to year #15! Human rights, animal rights, colourful cultures and lands, memory, friendship, and literature: here they are in the Canadian themes that make up our nation.
I send my love to and support of the Aboriginal children buried at residential schools and everyone concerned about them. May no one believe ever again that other lives, customs, languages, races, ages, or genders are beneath anyone.
I relaunch into this comforting activity, in honour of our 4 precious family members. They recently ascended to the afterlife. Here is to you: my dearest Mom, our sweet baby cat Spirit, and our precious, queenly Daughter cat, Marigold!
We are distressed to add that our precious McCartney joined them in the afterlife this March 2022! He would be 22 years-old in June. Rest in peace, our sweet Son.
May our dear Conan soon be home with us at last. Friends, please always check for an ear tattoo, or post photos and ask around about unknown cats near your homes. Never assume they come from neighbours. When someone finally asks how to use tattooes, posts, or looks for his picture: our very well identified and advertised, orange & white Conan shall be back with us.
With all of our love: Momma Carolyn, Dad Ron, McCartney, Angel, Petal, Conan.
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Here is what I have read in our 2021 & 2022 reading session.
“Ghosts Of James Bay” John Wilson 2006
“Out The Door” Emily Carroll 2010
“Except The Dying” Maureen Jennings 1997
“Falling Backwards” Jann Arden 2011
“Have You Seen Candace?” Wilma L. Derksen 1991
“Stoppel” Andrew Mikolajewski 2017
“Alexander Alexander” Algernon Blackwood 1919
“Dream Comics” Emily Carroll 2010
“In The Waves” Lennon, Maisy, MaryLynne Stella & Steve Björkman (illustrator) 2015
10) “The Mystery Of The Turtle Lake Monster” Jeni Mayer 1990
“A Haunted Island” Algernon Blackwood 1899
“The Broken Girls” Simone St. James 2018
“Alison’s Ghosts” Mary Alice & John Downie 1984
“His Face All Red” Emily Carroll 2010
“The Jump Rope Rhyme” Jo Walton 2017
“Under The Dragon’s Tail” Maureen Jennings 1998
“The Beautiful Mystery” Louise Penny 2012
“Sleeping Giants” Sylvain Neuvel 2016
“Haunted Manitoba: Ghost Stories From The Prairies” Matthew Komus 2019
20) “The Plain Old Man” Charlotte MacLeod 1985
“Anne Of Windy Poplars” Lucy Maud Montgomery 1936
“Writers’ Ink: The Red Deer & District Writers’ Club ~ Volume 3” Murray F. Fuhrer (editor) 2002
“Mystery Of The Secret Tunnel” (“Mystery In Newfoundland”) Frances Shelley Wees 1965
“The Guardian Circle” Margaret Buffie 1989
“Grandma And The Pirates” Phoebe Gilman 1990
“On A Personal Note” Rita MacNeil 1998
“A Question I Was Asked” Emily Carroll 2011
“The Indigo Survival Guide” Olena M.A. Gill 2006
“The Green Library” Janice Kulyk Keefer 1996
30) “The Glass Coffin” Gail Bowen 2002
“The Root Cellar” Janet Lunn 1981
“The Stone In The Meadow” Karleen Bradford 1984
“Bone Dance” Martha Brooks 1997
34) “Fifty Stories And A Piece Of Advice” David Arnason 1982
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