Alex BeamishStep 1: Make Your bedA wise person once recommended you start each day by making your bed. It’s a simple thing, but it means you’ve started your day with an…Oct 9, 2023Oct 9, 2023
Alex BeamishThoughts tonight while ironingI was ironing tonight, because a duvet cover I’d washed and dried was so wrinkled, it was going to be a nightmare to use. I still have an…Aug 1, 2023Aug 1, 2023
Alex BeamishMy parents both died last year.I don’t know what our conversation might sound like, so I thought I’d imagine.Apr 17, 2023Apr 17, 2023
Alex BeamishYour Red KettleThe red kettle that you used to make tea mid-afternoon now boils in the mornings for my coffee. I think of you when I pour the water…Jan 27, 2023Jan 27, 2023
Alex BeamishTheir Shrinking WorldMy parents have been living in a townhouse in a retirement community for the last four years. It has a kitchen with all of the usual stuff…Jun 20, 2022Jun 20, 2022
Alex BeamishMy GP is retiring, and he saved my lifeI moved to Toronto in June 1982, and started work at a company in the top left-hand corner of the city, an area called Rexdale. I asked my…Jun 22, 2021Jun 22, 2021
Alex BeamishSaturday morning at Rexall / June 2021I just got my second shot of Astra Zeneca this morning. As a usual precaution, you’re asked to sit for 15 minutes just in case there are…Jun 5, 2021Jun 5, 2021
Alex BeamishThe kindness of strangers in a big cityIt was a simple errand — run down to the drug store on the way to work to pick up some new reading glasses for the ones that had gone…Oct 23, 2019Oct 23, 2019
Alex BeamishTime enough to thinkI bought a thirty foot trailer last month, in an established trailer park where I know a lot of people. I’ve been pining for my own getaway…Jul 8, 2018Jul 8, 2018