This is the seventh installment in my series about conducting a life history interview with an older family member or friend. The series is based on William Fletcher's book Recording Your Family History. Previous posts in the series provided an introdu...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on July 10th, 2024
I had lunch today with a wise, positive and nurturing friend. We are fellow cancer survivors—cancer thrivers, really. You would not know to look at either of us that we've had cancer.
One of the ways my friend and I feel that we have both grown since...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on July 10th, 2024
My mom often advises people contemplating retirement, "Don't worry about having enough to do in retirement. You'll never be busier."
I can attest to this. Having been out of the workforce for almost four years now (it astounds me that it's been that l...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on July 9th, 2024
Because I wanted to write a post capturing my birthday yesterday, I decided to delay this week's Saturday Synopsis by a day.
The photo in tonight's visual is from today's Bluesfest shift, courtesy of fellow volunteer Emma.
[2021-06-30] Getting thro...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on July 7th, 2024
I couldn't have scripted a better birthday if I had organized it myself. I owe that credit largely to my daughter, who filled the day with special moments.
First, we had breakfast en famille, enjoying bagels that Mel had made yesterday evening while C...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on July 6th, 2024
After today's shift at Bluesfest, Chris and I took a stroll around the grounds, catching a few tunes by country artist Jaclyn Kenyon (1) and a few songs by Southern soul and roots rock band Bywater Call (2).
We also stopped by the Crazy Horse Saloon (...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on July 6th, 2024
It's been five years since Chris and I volunteered at Ottawa Bluesfest. 2020 and 2021 were wiped out by the pandemic. When the festival returned in 2022, we signed up to volunteer, but Chris got COVID just as the festival began, and I was afraid that I...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on July 5th, 2024
Two days ago, The New York Times published this story: Chris Evert Beat Cancer. Then It Came Back. So She Beat It Again.
As I've shared previously, Evert was found to carry the same pathogenic mutation in her BRCA1 gene as her sister Jeanne, who had ...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on July 3rd, 2024
This morning, a former colleague and friend emailed me to ask for tips for searching his family's history. He explained that he had recently returned to his country of origin to visit some relatives and came across some interesting photos of his dad's ...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on July 2nd, 2024
This morning, Mel and I tried our hand at pickleball. Though we had had a pickleball kit of two paddles and three perforated plastic balls for a few months, we had not yet tried them. After walking to a City of Ottawa tennis court and finding it locked...
Jennifer Hollington
Posted on July 1st, 2024
