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This article appeared in the January 21 edition of The Barrie Examiner. According to a post on Nov. 26, 2011 by the Drug Prevention Network of Canada, alcohol kills 9,000 people a year while smoking kills 37,000, with absolutely no mention of deaths attributed to marijuana use.

This article appeared in the January 6 edition of The Barrie Examiner as the latest entry of Johnny Glanville's THE INSTRUCTOR column. It is an article about the benefits of therapy, especially as a preventative means. One of my favorite moments of being a tennis coach is the moment at the end of someone’s first lesson.

Three hockey players in as many months took their own life this summer. Jerry West, a Hall of Fame Laker player and general manager recently wrote his memoir, West by West,

My wife is six months pregnant as she asks me how she looks. "You look normal and healthy, like you're pregnant," I reply. Wrong answer. She already knows this (the pregnant part) and for her, this is a bad thing; she wants to have the baby without actually looking like she's having the baby.

In a town of hockey stars and figure skating’s elite Olympians it’s easy and understandable for aspiring tennis players to feel alone and unrecognized, to question their desire, and to wonder if maybe it’s their environment which is preventing their success.

Logan is my 12-year-old dog. I guess you could say I'm his step-dad if you consider my wife his momma (she does). She got him from the pound for all the wrong reasons on Valentine's Day after a harsh breakup, which was long before I came into the picture.

Meditation is a physical practice in breathing that, if done properly, slows the heart and calms the mind. Millions of people do it and have for centuries. The earliest record dates back to 1500 BC.

When morning fog rolls into Barrie, it doesn't lay in silence inspiring one to ponder its magnificence and clap with one hand. When morning fog rolls into Barrie, it gets whisked away by the roar of the 400.

Would it make sense to congratulate a hammer for building a house? Not likely, accolades should go to the builder, the hammer had its role, but it was just a tool in the process, the bulk of the credit goes to the doer.

In a broken pidgin language, I was warned of the very real chance of sea sickness during my trip to an island shrouded in secret dangers. An ancient steam-bellowing ship rammed into giant waves across a channel of turquoise water.