BRAIN CHEMICAL DISORDERS by Doris Ray Panic Attacks I had my first panic attack when I was about 13 and in the eighth grade. The teacher in our small rural school had asked me to read a poem to the class from our English textbook. I had been reading aloud to this same bunch of…

MY CANCER DIARY by Doris Ray On September 21st 2007 Premier Campbell announced that the North would finally come of age—medically speaking. By 2012 we should have acquired all the health benefits and convenience of having a cancer clinic in the region. I recalled my own encounter with the big “C”  which I had chronicled…

Why do we assume that  everything in the world of nature and in the human world  are in opposition to one another? Possibly it originates from the scientific theory  “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction?” But that theory only refers to a force that’s expending energy- something in motion. It has nothing to do with abstract terms such as “dark” versus “light” or…

IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOUNTAIN In nineteen hundred and sixty-five The town of Fraser Lake was like a bee-hive People moving in from far away In the shadow of the mountain They had come to stay Brand new houses and a shopping mall Streets, a water system, recreation hall One year later Fraser Lake…

I sometimes wonder if I’m all there…We had stopped in McBride on the way home from Alberta, to spend the afternoon and evening resting at a motel. During the trip, we’d stopped at several motels and I’d become fairly organized – or so I thought. This time we brought in a small suitcase stocked with pills, nightime necessities, clean underwear and socks. We were leaving at the crack of…

That Christie Clark is one smart woman! In the short time that  she’s been premier, she’s made the HST seem palatible and less  of a dirty trick played on an unsuspecting public after the last provincial election. She’s gonna reduce the tax from 12 percent to 10 percent – sometime within the next 2 years. If she wasn’t a politician she’d have made a…

The Lusty Month of May ‘Twas in the lusty month of May When green buds they were swelling We sowed some seeds in a garden box Outside of where we’re dwelling We planted turnips, onions, peas, Some carrots, cabbage, greenery, And flowers with their colours bold To brighten up the scenery Imagine our surprise when…

I’d like to quote an old Readers Digest one-liner:  A fellow was in the market for some socks and had inquired what the label “shrink-resistant” meant. “It means the socks will shrink – but they don’t want to,” the clerk explained. In my mind that’s the difference between atrocities committed by psychopaths such as Osama bin Laden and his ilk; and atrocities committed by governments…

‎I’m puzzled how men such as Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden (Charles Manson too..) have an inate ability to impress others – sometimes many, many others – supposedly sane people – to fall in with and support their perverted grandiose aspirations… ? So now they’ve finaly found and killed “the most wanted man on earth…” At…

People are finally recognizing that the aims and  aspirations of science, and the aims and aspirations of most organized religions (after  peeling off superficial and cultural trappings and baring the basic “pearls of wisdom”) are similar. The difference (in my view) is that science points out what needs to be fixed and religion assures us that, if we all pull…