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Windswept

Part of my own motivation, when we planned a “storm chasing” night for After Hours, was curiosity. Why do people...
Anita Lahey
December 2, 2017
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Wild weather forecast for After Hours tonight!

  Dear Churchmice, In the cultural weather forecast for this evening, watch for a storm or two at sea courtesy of...
Anita Lahey
November 22, 2017
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Glimpses in Passing

  Toronto poet Gwendolyn MacEwen died in 1987. She was exactly the age I am now: 45. Circumstances aside, no one...
Anita Lahey
November 8, 2017
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The Dutch cleanser woman led us to infinity

Last month at Churchmouse After Hours we plodded through deserts, rode ships, dug tunnels and escaped tyranny.   We...
Anita Lahey
October 23, 2017
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We Creatures of the Earth Must Move and Move Again

. . . a matter of sense—the thousand-eyed, thousand-eared alertness of a flock. The strategies are given names— I...
Anita Lahey
September 26, 2017
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Is a stair any place to belong?

“In the country where I now live, there is no word for home.” That’s the first line of Isabel Huggan’s 2003 memoir...
Anita Lahey
July 12, 2017
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Its Place Among the Elements

  I didn’t hit me until I began choosing things to read for April’s Churchmouse After Hours, “Beginnings and...
Anita Lahey
May 6, 2017
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‘A happy love. Is it normal?’

[PLEASE NOTE! Our next Churchmouse After Hours Coffeehouse is Wed, April 26. 'Endings and Beginnings'. See info...
Anita Lahey
April 10, 2017
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Light in dark places

‘The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.’ We read those words in the prologue to...
Craig Hiebert
April 1, 2017
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Bears tobogganed down the hills

Today we woke up to a revolution of snow—Billy Collins, “Snow Day”   Welcome to our first Churchmouse After Hours...
Anita Lahey
March 26, 2017

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