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A daily miscellany of information by Michael Kesterton

Lives Lived

Jeremy Wright

Economist, filmmaker, peace activist. Born Jan. 30, 1937, in Hampshire, England. Died March 8 in Ottawa of cancer, aged 72.

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Why move to England? Why not?

People couldn't understand why we traded our sunny lives in Canada for rainy Britain. We wanted an adventure

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I hate staying up late

My first night on call in med school, I learned there's nothing like the terror of not sleeping to keep you awake

I'm living with ALS

I keep track of the disease's progress by what I can no longer do – walk, feed myself, speak. My body is a prison

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My bird-brained piano teacher

I've learned a lot from Max, my African grey parrot, who sits on my knee while I bash away at the keys

Bonding over our skateboards

My friend wanted to learn to skateboard at 30. We grew closer with each failed ollie and attempt to drop into the bowl

From wife to widow to only parent

When my husband died, grief became my full-time job. Four years later, I refuse to be an absent mother

My kids have graduated and I'm bored

This is the first fall I won’t be cheering for them at high-school games, concerts and practices. I'm a lost man

Feminist by day, housewife by night

I used to scoff at women who threw away career goals to have kids. But lately, I've been leading a double life