This season’s magazine is all about taking chances and expanding our horizons. Sometimes we choose to change, and other times we’re forced to by the world around us. It mightfeel as if we spend most of our time on what we have to do and very little on what we want to do, particularly during … Continue reading SEARCH: Spring 2021 Editor Letter
City Spolight, Toronto by Tim Reynolds. A vibrant city of 2.7 million people, Toronto, Ontario sits on the north shore of Lake Ontario, approximately eighty miles from Niagara Falls and the US border. One of the most cosmopolitan and multicultural cities in the world, Toronto has over two hundred distinct ethnic origins. While English is … Continue reading SEARCH: City Spolight, Toronto
Holiday Discomfort Foods by Tim Reynolds. Gather ye ’round and hear the tale of the Holiday Discomfort Foods. You ask what, pray tell, are discomfort foods? Well, they look much like the traditional holiday foods of a family with British and Scottish decent, but rather than comforting a soul over the holidays, they cause discomfort. … Continue reading SEARCH: Holiday Discomfort Foods
This Functional Family by Tim Reynolds Apparently, it’s time to discuss Family Traditions here at SEARCH Magazine. While my family members are all wonderful people, there’s not much I can say about our traditions without one or more of them getting a wee bit upset that I’ve aired our emotional laundry in public. It’s my … Continue reading SEARCH: This Functional Family
As part of our Blast from the Past issue, we’re revisiting useful articles from past issues. This article first appeared in Summer 2017: Fifty Shades of Beige by Tim Reynolds I live a boring little life, in a boring little duplex, on a boring little cul-de-sac, in a city whose most exciting event of the … Continue reading SEARCH: Fifty Shades of Beige
Mansplaining 101 by Tim Reynolds Hello. I’m a man with nearly six decades of life experience, honored and proud to have been invited by SEARCH Magazine to contribute on how to empower women. (You weren’t invited. We don’t need a lecture on empowering women.) I’m not? You don’t? (That would be mansplaining.) What the heck … Continue reading SEARCH: Mansplaining 101
I’m Prepared for Anything…Almost by Tim Reynolds When I was a teacher, my classroom was on the second floor of a solid, old limestone school facing west. The two of us, whose classrooms had the best views, were responsible for watching for funnel clouds where the tornadoes came from. If we sounded out the tornado … Continue reading SEARCH: I’m Prepared for Anything… Almost
Once a Space Cadet, Always a Space Cadet by Tim Reynolds “Hello. My name is Tim, and I’m a Space Cadet.” “Hi, Tim.” You laugh, but I am a Space Cadet, or better, a Space Fanatic. I always have been. I was born just before Yuri Gagarin went into orbit, and my childhood was spent … Continue reading SEARCH: Once a Space Cadet, Always a Space Cadet
How to Catch a Rabid Squirrel and Why by Tim Reynolds Rescue missions were our specialty, though up to this point in time all previous missions involved only G. I. Joes. This was our first live specimen, zoological rescue, and no thirteen- and fourteen-year-old, two-kid team was more prepared than Ron and me. We’d ridden … Continue reading SEARCH: How to Catch a Rabid Squirrel and Why
Traveling with my Mom by Tim Reynolds Although I haven’t traveled much lately, I have always enjoyed my little adventures. Sometimes, though, I find myself in odd situations while exploring. I was once questioned by a State Trooper in Death Valley, while I was trying to tie my shoes; risked arrest and beheading (okay, maybe … Continue reading SEARCH: Traveling with My Mom
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