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THE DEATH AND LIFE OF THE WORLD’S BIGGEST RAM

May 22, 2015by Jennifer Allford Leave a comment

Swerve Magazine, May 22: The world-record bighorn sheep wowed hunters and conservationists. But to the biologist who had studied it since it was a lamb, the animal was much more than […]

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Mike O’Brien is a very funny, very dying man. Read this, laugh your arse off and send him good wishes.

April 18, 2015by Jennifer Allford Leave a comment

Originally posted on The Big Diseasey:
Believe me, I’m as surprised as you are. My health, my energy and my spirits are so up-and-down I really don’t know how I’m…

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Pass the history with the gravy boat

January 4, 2015by Jennifer Allford Leave a comment

Swerve Magazine: I don’t remember seeing the gravy boat much when I was a kid. It was stashed away in a sideboard with the “good dishes” and, like the jolly […]

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The dog days of middle age

January 4, 2015by Jennifer Allford Leave a comment

MORE Magazine: When my kids were little and food would fly off the table at every meal, a friend tried to talk me into getting a dog. We were sitting in […]

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The “P” word (for porn)

January 4, 2015by Jennifer Allford Leave a comment

MORE Magazine: We tell one another just about everything when it comes to our intimate lives. Why then are we so reluctant to speak the naked truth about pornography?

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Mother knew %$#^& best

January 4, 2015by Jennifer Allford Leave a comment

MORE Magazine: Despite losing her at a young age, Jennifer Allford cannot forget her mom’s words of wisdom — expletives included

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HIgh school reunions: Blast from the past

January 4, 2015by Jennifer Allford Leave a comment

MORE Magazine: It’s about a three-hour drive to my old high school — from Calgary straight up Highway 2 to Edmonton. It’s all rolling prairie meets big blue sky, but […]

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Bookclubs gone wild

January 4, 2015by Jennifer Allford Leave a comment

MORE Magazine: We all know affordable childcare, honest repair shops and, God knows, a good man are hard to find. But there is another elusive dream that many of us long […]

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Old news: Ageism in the workplace

January 4, 2015by Jennifer Allford Leave a comment

MORE Magazine: Forty-six-year-old Sheryl Campbell was talking with a colleague in his twenties one sunny afternoon when it hit her with the force of a late labour contraction: I could be […]

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Cougar: That other ‘C’ word

January 4, 2015by Jennifer Allford Leave a comment

MORE Magazine: I was a cougar. I mean, I guess I was. I was pushing 40 and he was 27. We dated for a year. He told me he was […]

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writing from home + away + in between

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Taste, Travel, Tell

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Treasures that scientists keep on ice

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The adventures of an American journalist and author based in Mexico and traveling the world. 49 countries and counting!

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