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Alex Beamish

Alex Beamish

Step 1: Make Your bed

A 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, 2023

Oct 9, 2023

Alex Beamish

Thoughts tonight while ironing

I 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, 2023

Aug 1, 2023

Alex Beamish

My parents both died last year.

I don’t know what our conversation might sound like, so I thought I’d imagine.

Apr 17, 2023

Apr 17, 2023

Alex Beamish

Your Red Kettle

The 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, 2023

Jan 27, 2023

Alex Beamish

Their Shrinking World

My 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, 2022

Jun 20, 2022

Alex Beamish

The usual Friday night mental detritus

I still think of you.

Jul 31, 2021

Jul 31, 2021

Alex Beamish

My GP is retiring, and he saved my life

I 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, 2021

Jun 22, 2021

Alex Beamish

Saturday morning at Rexall / June 2021

I 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, 2021

Jun 5, 2021

Alex Beamish

The kindness of strangers in a big city

It 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, 2019

Oct 23, 2019

Alex Beamish

Time enough to think

I 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, 2018

Jul 8, 2018

Alex Beamish

Alex Beamish

A Waterloo engineer who does software R&D on Linux with Perl, shell, and databases. Currently self-employed as an EDI consultant.

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