A loved one passes.

When someone you love dies, no matter that it is expected, or you think you’re prepared, it’s still a shock. My mother, Dorothy Crabtree, died Aug. 10. She was 96 and had been in a nursing home for four years. She had been an antiques dealer for more than 40 years and in 1970 raised [...]

From port to port

Niagara is a peninsula between lakes Ontario and Erie. St. Catharines, where we live, is on the south shore of Lake Ontario and Port Dalhousie is part of St. Catharines. Travel southwest down the peninsula for an hour and a half and you arrive at Port Dover on the north shore of Lake Erie. The two [...]

Say goodbye to cold

Last night – the eve of the longest day of the year – husband, Ron, and I, went down to Port Dalhousie, a little village on Lake Ontario that is now part of St. Catharines. It’s about 10 minutes from our home, just east of the Niagara River…and one of my favorite places in the [...]

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