If you had told me, twenty years ago, that this last decade would be one of the most terrifying/interesting/instructive/growth inducing periods of my entire life to date, I’d have laughed uproariously, and then kicked you out of the room.
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Roxanne Tellier – The Long Strange Trip Continues
Posted in COVID 19, life, Opinion, politics, Review, Work with tags Beatles, Biden, Cell Phones, DBAWIS, Ed Sullivan, essential workers, Facebook, Generation Gap, gig economy, Haitians, inequality, Long Strange Trip, MAGA, Michael Nesmith, minimum wage, pandemic, partisan, Republican Party, same sex marriage, school, segarini, Side Hustle, Social Media, Tellier, Trump, Uber, YouTube on September 26, 2021 by segariniJAIMIE VERNON – 40 SUMMERS AGO
Posted in Opinion with tags Bay City Rollers, Berner Trail, Bob Segarini, Camping, Canadian Music 1976, CHUM, cousin, DBAWIS, Deja Vu, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Dorothy Moore, girl next door, high school, Jaimie Vernon, RPM Magazine, school, Stampeders, Summer Holiday on June 11, 2016 by segariniThe end of the school year is fast approaching. As I take my son back and forth on what will be his final year in high school, I find myself drifting back in time to when we looked forward to summer break. My childhood was filled with great ones. In 1975 I took a two week trip west across Canada with my grandmother in her 1972 Skylark which changed my life, and my world view, for the better. That was almost completely undone when my parents attempted to take my sister and I on a similar trip to Canada’s East Coast in 1977. It was a study in stark contrasts on how not to travel with one’s family.
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