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Barb Drummond
- Sep 21
- 2 min
Egg Salad Sandwiches, the Quintessential Funeral Food
Growing up in my house, the making of egg salad sandwiches meant death. Someone had died and egg salad sandwiches were made. What an odd...
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Barb Drummond
- Mar 20
- 3 min
Of the Blue Mind or a Forest Bather?
I have returned home to be near the lake. I don my swimsuit. I grab my towel and my book and head down to the dock. Walking, swimming,...
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Barb Drummond
- Mar 12
- 4 min
Coffee with Mother Nature
Mother Nature is a tiny woman, small framed with delicate bones, rough weathered skin, stunning ocean-blue eyes and dark wild hair that...
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Barb Drummond
- Oct 27, 2021
- 1 min
The Old Woman on the Bench - Scribbly response
I see her. The old woman. She is siting on a park bench. The same park bench everyday, surrounded by birds and squirrels. Each time I...
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Barb Drummond
- Oct 27, 2021
- 2 min
Scribbles from my Scribbly.
I joined a women’s gentle writing program called Scribbly. It has re-introduced me to writing and taking the time to write in small bits....
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Barb Drummond
- Oct 27, 2021
- 4 min
I finally have the smoking hot body I have always wanted…
Mom had Alzheimer‘s. She was young when she was diagnosed. She spent almost 18 years in confusion and uncertainty. Writing her obituary...
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Barb Drummond
- Oct 25, 2021
- 8 min
Memories of growing up in the small village of Baysville.
Our family first moved to Baysville in 1972. I was 6. All I knew when we moved from Algonquin Ave near Clappison’s Corner Hamilton to...
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Barb Drummond
- Jun 7, 2020
- 5 min
Why so negative?
I have a friend and mentor, Natalie Hale, who has a phrase that often comes to mind when I am teaching or speaking to clients and...
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Barb Drummond
- Jan 21, 2019
- 4 min
Memory and the Brain...
Memory. Without it, we live infinitely in the now. A perpetual ground hog day so to speak and never know the difference. Perhaps some may...
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Barb Drummond
- Aug 10, 2018
- 4 min
Reminisce like it's 1978!
Recently, I flew to New Brunswick to surprise my husband, Gord. He was in New Brunswick with our third child, Harrison, spending time...
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Barb Drummond
- Nov 13, 2017
- 5 min
Winnipeg Warmed my Heart!
Winnipeg...you have some pretty awesome people living there! Recently, I had the opportunity to speak to Parents, Educators, Educational...
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Barb Drummond
- Jul 28, 2017
- 4 min
Never underestimate the power of estrogen and the SHE-nanigans it creates...(an observation on the p
I just spent 4 days with a group of women. Women I have know for a very long time but never in the atmosphere that I experienced this...
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Barb Drummond
- Jul 4, 2017
- 3 min
It just is what it is...
Well, I started this piece on the last night of the Down Syndrome Conference in Banff and just finding the time to write out my...
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Barb Drummond
- May 14, 2017
- 2 min
Christmas in September-a perspective in Down syndrome.
Go ahead – ask me why we put a Christmas tree up on September 27th. Well, we have a “Clark”, the youngest of our 4 awesome children, who...
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Barb Drummond
- May 14, 2017
- 3 min
"Why we can't leave in the morning until Clark's socks are ironed!"
I thought perhaps it was time to write a sequel to my earlier post in honour of Down syndrome Awareness…another perspective... “Why we...
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Barb Drummond
- Oct 21, 2016
- 4 min
Being the Other Children...
As many of you may know, October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month. In previous postings I have written posts about Clark to bring...
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