by Barbara Zarzosa | Dec 13, 2017 | Telling our stories
Back when I was a young boy, there were some woods behind our house and in those woods was a dirt road that led to an abandoned sand quarry, complete with a sloping wall of top soil, which in winter became a pretty big and steep snow hill, for a ten-year-old anyway....
by Barbara Zarzosa | Dec 6, 2017 | Telling our stories
Reader’s Digest asked nine of our favourite Canadian celebrities to share their most memorable holiday moments with us. Here are the fondest (and funniest) festive stories from the likes of Rick Mercer, Debbie Travis and Jann Arden. Read their holiday memories...
by Barbara Zarzosa | Sep 11, 2017 | Telling our stories
I’m a New York City Teacher working and living in Manhattan. On the morning of 9/11/01, I did ordinary things and had ordinary thoughts. I went to vote and remembered how worried I was that I was going to be late for a meeting I had to go to. The traffic was...
by Barbara Zarzosa | Aug 9, 2017 | Telling our stories
I have an older brother and a younger sister, as such, was the Child Psychologist’s perfect stereotype of The Middle Child Syndrome. My elder brotherwas allowed to stay up later, to be in charge in the absence of our parents and worst of all, was perpetually...
by Barbara Zarzosa | Jul 19, 2017 | Telling our stories
My family moved to Rockaway, New Jersey in the summer of 1978. It was there that my dreams of stardom began. Read more of the story here.
by Barbara Zarzosa | Jul 12, 2017 | Interview, Telling our stories
“I have to gamble with my life for the freedom.” – Nhu Van Nguyen It was April 30th, 1975, forty years ago, that the last U.S. helicopter slipped over the horizon on the outskirts of Saigon, and unceremoniously signaled the end of the Vietnam War....
