Author: Anne Wightman
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Returning to Nova Scotia
I’ve lived a lot of places in my adult life. I confess that I was born in the US, so most of the places I lived were there, but I moved to Nova Scotia in 2006 and very quickly felt more at home than I had felt in any of the five states I had lived in over a period of 20-odd years. Why? One reason is that having school-age children helps one integrate into a community in any locale. But I’d had school-age children in the previous ten years living in Minnesota, and I never felt as much a…
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My Accidental Swim
I am a 16 year old cat, long, lanky, and orange, with the beginnings of grey showing around my ears and whiskers. I have lived in many places in my long life, all (except for the very first bit, which I don’t remember very well) with my family of humans. The story I’m going to tell you is from my time on the boat.