Barb Drummond
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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