On A Brighter Note – Booing is bad manners by Lori Welbourne
Canadians are known for being polite people, but last weekend thousands of spectators at the Grey Cup game in Toronto were anything...
On A Brighter Note by Lori Welbourne – Reconnect by disconnecting
Camping at the beautiful Mabel Lake Provincial Park came at a price last week: I had to function without the Internet for the...
On A Brighter Note by Lori Welbourne – A second chance at life
David Branigan started off the new year in the worst possible way: with the police at his door telling him his 22-year-old son, Joshua,...
On A Brighter Note by Lori Welbourne – For the love of Mom
For the love of Mom Last week I saw an interesting post on Facebook titled: “Seeking Kelowna, BC Firefighter named Brent.”...
On A Brighter Note by Lori Welbourne – A second chance at life
David Branigan started off the new year in the worst possible way: with the police at his door telling him his 22-year-old son, Joshua,...
On A Brighter Note by Lori Welbourne – Looking out while looking within
I struggle with depression and anxiety. Funny that someone with these issues would be writing a column called “On a Brighter Note,”...
On A Brighter Note by Lori Welbourne – The breast is yet to come
When you’re healthy, it’s easy to not think about it and take wellness for granted. And then, just like that, your whole...
One A Brighter Note by Lori Welbourne – A second chance at life
My father had three kinds of cancer last year: basal cell carcinoma caused by sunburns as a kid, a low grade leukemia that needs...
On A Brighter Note by Lori Welbourne – Everyone deserves respect
Last month an Ontario grandmother received an anonymous letter in the mail from an apparent mother in the neighborhood, who was furious...
Freedom to be friends by Lori Welbourne – On A Brighter Note
In 1975 my dad’s mother married a wonderful man named Karl. I was nine years old and all I really knew about...