A Password Worth Keeping

 I am sitting at my daughter’s desktop computer troubleshooting a virus issue. I’ve been at it for forty minutes or more, defragging, reconfiguring, updating virus definitions, restoring order. I am almost done. “Windows can’t update important files while the system is using them,” the screen says. I imagine a tiny tech guy typing this message. […]

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From What I Gave Away to What I Choose to Keep

Inevitably, when you choose to examine things you gave away, you end up with a pile of stuff worth keeping. And so I find myself here amidst a stack of favourite books,  my great-grandmother’s wedding ring (and to think I never knew that, she too, was a second-wife), a scribbled quote. It might be said […]

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