Teenaged me wasn’t very smart. “Hope I die before I get old.” ‘Never trust anyone over 30.” I’d not yet heard of the 27 Club, but if I had, I might have aspired to joining it, thus avoiding becoming untrustworthy.
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Roxanne Tellier – Aging and Changing
Posted in Opinion with tags Aging and Changing, benefits, Canada, Canada Health Act, Canada Pension Plan, caring, Concorde, creative, DBAWIS, empathic, Expo 67, Geodesic Dome, Golden Years, Great Depression, internet, learning, mindfulness, North America, Ontario Place, past, positive, segarini, Seniors, Social Media, Spanish Flu, Tellier on May 2, 2021 by segariniPeter’s Sister Mary Matters
Posted in Family, Opinion, Review with tags "Europe One", "Final Jeopardy", "You're So Vain", Birthday, Bob Segarini, Burlington, Carly Simon, Charles Montreuil, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Expo 67, Helen Montreuil, Jeopardy, Mary Louise Montreuil, McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II, Multiple Sclerosis, The Beatles, The First, the Kennedys, the White Album, The Who, Uptergrove on July 4, 2019 by segarini
I have always tried to live my life according to a number of tenets. Some are arguably limited in scope. For example, I view beer drinking as a perishable skill. Others are much more “pigeon-holed”, such as, despite what many of my military aviation buddies may think, I truly believe that a McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II in “Europe One” camouflage is a thing of beauty indeed.
Others are more universal in application, however. One of my nearest and dearest is that I have always tried to have strong women in my life, even if only on the periphery. Today’s column is about one of those women, my late sister Mary.
Roxanne Tellier – Montreal, Cemeteries, and Donovans
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags 1976 Olympic Games, A Shamrock in the Snow, Algonquin warrior., Baron de Hirsch Cemetery, Bob Segarini, Calixa Lavallée, Canada Life Weather Beacon, Celine Dion, Charles Melville Hays, Civil War, Cotes de Neiges cemetery, Cross of Sacrifice, DBAWIS, Doug Harvey, Edmonton, Expo 67, Father of Confederation. Sir John A. MacDonald, Grand Trunk Railway. Notre Dame de Neiges Cemetery, Jean Drapeau, Joe Beef, Laurier Palace Theatre, Maurice 'The Rocket' Richard; Pierre Laporte, McGill University, Michael Leo Donovan, Montreal, Montreal Metro, Mount Royal, Oh Canada, Patricia Donovan, Peel Street. First Nation, René Angélil; Nick Auf der Maur; Gratien Gelinas, Robert Bourassa, Roxanne Tellier, Simon McTavish, Sir Arthur William Currie, Sir George Etienne Cartier, The Beachcombers, The Beat Divas. past life regression, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Titanic on May 26, 2019 by segarini
My family has a tiny burial plot on Mount Royal, in the Cotes de Neiges cemetery, and that’s where the bones and ashes of my ancestors have been interred for over a hundred years.
It’s been two months since my aunt’s passing. The clan will gather this week to bring her ashes home.
“Patricia Donovan, daughter of Freda (James) Donovan and Denis Patrick Donovan, the last of her generation, died March 29, 2019 in Ottawa.
Born in Montreal, Patricia lived most of her life there. She enjoyed travel, and worked for a time in Washington, D.C. She moved to Toronto and cared for her mother until her mother’s passing.
Peter – My Dad Was Quite the Lad
Posted in Opinion with tags "Charlie Deserves it", "Fiddler On The Roof", Assumption College, Bancroft, Barrie, Camp Borden, Canadian Army, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Expo 67, HSL-41, Kiwanis Festival, Louise Montreuil, Marie Renaud, Montreal, Ontario College of Education, Orillia, Orillia District Collegiate & Vocational Institute, Park Street Collegiate Institute, Peter Montreuil, Robert Segarini, St Bernard's, University of Windsor, Windsor on April 5, 2018 by segarini
I can’t believe that it’s been 30 years since my Dad passed. Let me share some of my personal randomly shuffled memories, as well as a few anecdotes that I learned second hand, at a temporal distance from when they occurred. I now bitterly regret not asking him more questions, not finding out more about the man who was my father, so the following is, in some cases, ” as far as I know.”.
JAIMIE VERNON – MY SUMMER HOLIDAY 1975 – PART 1
Posted in Opinion with tags Big Nickel, Bob Segarini, Canadian Music Trans Canada Highway, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Expo 67, Jaimie Vernon, Kenora, Lake Huron, Lake Superior, moon landing, NASA, North Bay, Ontario, Orillia, Port Arthur, road trip, Route 17, Sault Ste. Marie, Skylark, Sudbury, Summer Holiday, Theselon, Three's A Crowd, Thunder Bay, Travel, WW2 on June 6, 2015 by segarini
For those remotely following along at home you may know that my current day gig is to impersonate a security guard at cemeteries around Toronto. On Sunday and Monday nights I’m usually assigned to Pine Hills in Scarborough. Many of my relatives are buried there as I’ve posted most recently in acknowledging my mother’s mother’s 100th birthday.
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 