GINTA – Rewarding intolerance for Christmas ‘discrimination’
TWO DAYS AGO, while on an errand run, I met Michael, the homeless man who always has a smile on. He greeted me with ‘Merry Christmas’. Rather than question his assumption [Continue]
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GINTA – Let’s put the issue of school bus safety on Santa’s list
A FEW DAYS AGO, a school bus carrying ten youth and two adults was involved in an accident near Cache Creek. Fortunately, everyone survived; one person had critical, but [Continue]
GINTA – Let’s never give up on making people’s lives better
IT’S 4 A.M. ON SATURDAY. I wake up thirsty and amble my way into the kitchen, fill a glass with water and drink it to the last drop. I return to bed and snuggle back [Continue]
GINTA – What’s the best way to deal with a lack of empathy?
EVERY NOW AND THEN certain news makes me go silent. ‘How is that possible?’ is all I can think. Such was the case of the recent break-ins (yes plural, since it happened [Continue]
GINTA – The Remembrance Day files: it feels like family
‘In Flanders fields, the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns [Continue]
GINTA – Let us always remember all that they did for us
MY GRANDFATHER was a WWII veteran. He died when I was nine, and so did the stories that he might have been inclined to share. I have old photos of him in uniform, and I know [Continue]
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