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The Museum of Norm
The week that I was home in Ontario for my father’s death in November I packed up a box of things from his office and workshop that I wanted to remember him by. That office and that workshop were...
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My father was an early adopter of personal computers, and I inherited a “learn to do by doing” ethic from him in this regard: neither of us had any formal computer training, we just hit our head...
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Happy New Decade
Twenty years ago tonight, close to midnight, at the very precipice of the last millennium, Catherine and I conceived a child.That night in 1999 we toasted Y2K with a bottle of Henkell, a gift from Mrs....
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Eugene's Meat Pie for New Year's Eve
In recent years the only regular exception I have made to my vegetarianism has been Eugene Sauve’s meat pie at the Landmark Café in Victoria. I even wrote a book about it.When the Landmark closed, I...
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Godspeed
Godspeed is one of my favourite words. I’m going to have to work harder to bring it back into vogue.See also Ron Hynes.
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Thank you, Ethan
When, in early 2013, Catherine suggested that we look into getting an autism assistance dog for Oliver, I thought it was an inane idea: she wanted to take our already chaotic family and inject another...
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Catherine
Catherine, my partner of nigh on 29 years, has been living with metastatic breast cancer since the fall of 2014 (she would never say “battling” or “suffering from,” and I can attest that she has,...
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"Love is the tamarack wood that is flexible and strong, quick and enduring..."
Archdeacon John Clark writes about the future of the church.John and I had a long and helpful conversation on Saturday: at one point we shared how, at our core, we are both in the metaphor business....
View ArticleI'm an Expert on Your Breath
I was chatting with Catherine’s doctor about changes in her breathing—it seemed like it was slowing, and changing cadence and, to be honest, I was panicking 5 or 6 times a minute when it seemed like...
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Catherine has died.
Catherine died tonight at 9:20 p.m. I was at her side, joined, a few minutes later, by Oliver, my brother Mike and my mother. Catherine died gently and peacefully, and on her own terms. As she lived.
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A Celebration of Catherine's Life
We are holding a celebration of Catherine’s life on Monday, January 20, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. in St. Paul’s Anglican Church in downtown Charlottetown, with time for a cup of tea, a bite to eat, a chat,...
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I just looked at the clock on the wall of our living room: Catherine died exactly 48 hours ago.This morning, our regular market day, I was fully prepared to stay in bed. All day.“How would you feel if...
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Livestream of Celebration of Life for Catherine Miller, January 20, 2020
(The celebration will start at 11:00 a.m. Atlantic Time)Welcome to this celebration of the life of our dear Catherine. We are here, in this place, because Catherine chose it. She wanted there to be...
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Video of Catherine's Celebration of Life
Isaac and Perry Williams generously stepped in to provide everything that was needed to livestream the celebration of Catherine’s life yesterday, using Isaac’s very keen livestream rig.The video was...
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Catherine didn’t believe in God.Which begs the question, why are we celebrating her life in a space that presupposes God?The simple answer to that question is this: a few weeks after being diagnosed...
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The Island Way of Death
Widowers never seem to write about the logistics of death. Which is understandable, given the emotional torrent involved in having your spouse die.But the result is that those logistics remain a...
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