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From Verona to the Mafia in Sicily.
I was on a plane to Carlentini. in Sicily, An unscheduled trip. Not part of the itinerary based on the Experiment of International...


Sienna. "Look at you. You have no manners. You're cutting your spaghetti!"...
Sienna. At the prearranged time, my taxi stopped at the address of the apartment building of the Italian family with whom I was going to...


From Borneo to Alitalia!
I was walking with my friend, Molly, on the Montreal 'mountain', when out of the clear blue sky, she blurted: “Let’s go to Borneo! We’re...


"Claire, don't let the boys know how smart you are!"
It was wartime. I was starting to date. And my family had no phone. What to do? I had an uncle who was very ingenious. And I had a...


"Executives don't serve ice cream cones"
Before retirement, he had been an executive in Montreal His wife had been the wife of an executive...a very feisty wife of the executive....


Into the mind of Award Winning Children's Author, Anne Renaud Claire asks Anne about her work.
“ How many people have ideas of what they would love to do but are too terrified to cross the line into the unknown. Too terrified to...


"So you harbour dreams of becoming a writer of children's books?"
You could say I owe my writing career to children’s magazines. When I first began writing I did what many of us do. I wrote my children’s...


I wanted to be a veterinarian. My father objected. I became a teacher. When my dog became a therapy
“My dog is a rescue dog. I got her from a shelter up north. She had been returned by an owner. An abused dog. So sad. But our eyes met....


It's always a time for a story about flowers - especially NOW. We need joy. And caring.
I have passed Venus Plants many times. I never thought of entering. I was too far away from home. Then one day it happened . A...
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