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How True Are Your Memories?

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I don’t know how long I’d been crying when my mother hit the brakes of our Jimmy and pulled to the side of a country road. It was late August, […]

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Kate Harris: ‘Children can’t understand why we don’t make dramatic changes to save the world’

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On a 6,000-mile bicycle journey along the Silk Road, the author explored the notion of wildness – the Earth’s and her own

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Pod save America: podcasts to survive the Trump presidency

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From soul-searching Democrats to the king of rightwing radio, here are the podcasts to help you understand the next four years

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Love lockdown

May 29, 2016by Clare MG Leave a comment

Despite the graffiti and the locks, Ponte Milvio itself seemed no worse for wear. If Garibaldi couldn’t destroy it, then how could something as innocent as love?

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Journeys in Literature: Alice Munro’s Dance of the Happy Shades

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Like Alice Munro, my grandmother came from small-town Ontario, and my memories chime with Munro’s tales of passionate girls and women with stifled passions

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Reese Witherspoon in Wild

The film that makes me cry: Wild with Reese Witherspoon

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I was worried that Reese Witherspoon’s desert odyssey would be mawkish – but with sarcasm and shared history, it punched me in the gut

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Cape Island house Newfoundland

Memory Cabin

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A visit to one abandoned community in Newfoundland finds that perhaps you can go home again

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Behind the Olympics: The Spectacle of all Spectacles

February 10, 2014by Clare MG

Technology and elaborate storytelling have made opening and closing ceremonies increasingly grand. After the mind-blowing extravaganzas of Beijing, Vancouver and London, can Sochi go to new levels?

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Little Buddhas on a rock, Korean monastery

Seoul Searching

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Zen and the city … a journey through modern Korea

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