Jam Gen Love: The Smoking Account

My mother quit smoking on October 16, 1977. I know this date precisely because it was such a momentous event… Read more Jam Gen Love: The Smoking Account

Jam Gen Pets: The Life of Riley

(As dictated to Marina) My name isn’t actually Riley, but it might as well be. After all, I live the… Read more Jam Gen Pets: The Life of Riley

I didn’t even try to park in the parking lot of the long-term care home where my mother resides –… Read more Jam Gen Health: Vaccination Day

I knew it was going to be a bad week. Then Facebook made it worse. Every winter for the past… Read more Jam Gen Travel: Why I Miss It

So 2020 has departed none too soon and here we are in the first quarter of 2021. Doesn’t feel much… Read more Jam Gen Health: The Winter of Our Discontent

Confession time: I’m not a trendy person. I don’t stand in line for hours, let alone days, to get the… Read more Jam Gen Love: Living Apart Together

Even in the good years, getting through a trip around the sun can feel like a Herculean effort. Each lunar… Read more Jam Gen Calendar: A Guided Tour Around the Sun

I look at my mother sitting across from me in her wheelchair, a wheeled hospital-style overbed table situated between us.… Read more Jam Gen Health: A Visit with My Mother

In December 2008, my husband, sons (then aged five and two) and I travelled to my childhood home in St.… Read more Jam Gen Parenting: A Very Canadian Story

Lights. Camera. Action! My sister and I knew the drill by now: come home from the Christmas Eve service, take… Read more Jam Gen Family: Memories of Christmases Past