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Anna Lorck: School Camps Breed Survivors

November 11, 2010

I have survived for this month. I conquered school camp. I am now qualified to voice my opinion on those who put themselves forward to volunteer for duty. Yes, I finally succumbed to going on school camp. Somehow I had managed to convince myself that I was ready to go where I hadn’t been before. [...]

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Anna Lorck: Dead-Meat

August 21, 2010

When I started writing for BayBuzz, I was brought on as a counterpoint, a lioness who wasn’t afraid to roar. Until now I’ve been basking in “everything under the sun” purring and enjoying myself and playing a bit of cat and mouse with editor Tom Cat.  But the stakes are getting higher now, and as the elections approach [...]

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Anna Lorck: Never Had It So Good

May 29, 2010

Growing up I was always asked what I wanted to be. The answer was never expected to be “a mother” … that was a given. No, the women in my life wanted to know what “career ambitions” I had. It was instilled in me that I would work from an early age. My grandmothers – [...]

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Anna Lorck: Florence Nightingale

April 9, 2010

The man in our house has a cough – it’s a nagging sound that I hear each time it arrives and it always gets worse. He does little to help himself. Instead, he’s in the camp of fighting the cough “naturally.” He’ll sweat it out with a bike ride in the rain. It will eventually [...]

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Anna Lorck: Black and White

February 15, 2010

I don’t do grey – it’s black and white – that’s me. But, for better or worse, and as I get older, and apparently wiser, I start seeing more grey … not in my hair(!), but in the advantages this dull and dreary colour has to getting the outcome one desires. Politics should be black [...]

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