Rosemary Ganley

1 week ago | thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Rosemary Ganley

It’s a roller coaster of a life for us these days; the death of a well-liked Pope, a Canadian election full of both hopes and disappointments, NHL hockey finals featuring three Canadian teams, and underlying it all, our ongoing dismay watching America implode. To protect mental health, one must focus on one event at a time, if that is possible. Being kind to oneself and everyone else is also good advice. They say Tai Chi is very good for us, mentally and physically. Great theatre is all around.

1 week ago | thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Rosemary Ganley

The multitalented arts producer Bill Kimball arrived in Peterborough from Vermont to attend Trent University in 1975. I arrived from Montreal in 1969. Yet, although I have attended and been enriched by many of his productions over the years, we had never had a chat until recently. We sat down at Dreams of Beans, that friendly downtown community hub, the one with the piano to play, and talked for an hour.

3 weeks ago | thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Rosemary Ganley

Facing this momentous election Monday, I’d like to end this series of columns with a plea to elevate the importance of climate policy as presented by the contenders to help us voters decide. Peterborough is uniquely positioned to know about and act on the ultimate peril in front of humanity now.

3 weeks ago | thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Rosemary Ganley

When I was teaching high school English, my favourite students were the teenage boys, with their big feet and their ball hats turned sideways, and their honesty. I always started class with an icebreaker query: “Did you see the game last night? “They knew my distaste for Don Cherry so one day they brought in a full-sized cardboard cutout of the man.  I said, “Don can stay, but every day you have to turn him around to look out the window.

1 month ago | thepeterboroughexaminer.com | Rosemary Ganley

For Peterborough voters who value tenacity in life and in politics, Liberal candidate Emma Harrison came through in spades April 1. We had an interview time booked at the campaign headquarters on King Street but with the chaos caused by the ice storm and the fact that Harrison lives in Selwyn Township, I doubted it would happen. So I drove by the office on King Street at 9 a.m. to confirm. There were four staff and volunteers on hand.