Profile of Susan Flanagan

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• At the foot of the matter
  “I didn’t marry you for your feet,” my loving husband said one day while massaging my cold extremities. Well, I hope you didn’t marry me for my ...
• Calling all high school grads
  March 1 is the deadline to apply for admission to Memorial University for fall semester 2012. ...
• The magic of kindergarten
  “What’s so magical about kindergarten?” Education Minister Clyde Jackman asked me as he leaned back in his leather armchair. It’s a good ...
• Belly button of the world
  Steve Jobs thought he was the belly button of the world. He thought rules for regular people didn’t apply to him. He parked his Mercedes SL55 in ...
• Lively Levee
  When discussing the New Year’s Levee, one of my sons asked me what it was. “It’s a way to welcome the New Year … a chance for the peasant folk to ...
• Being efficient in the afterlife
  When I mentioned my topic for this week’s column, my husband told me not to touch it with a three-metre Christmas tree. But because this topic is ...
• The longevity of pocket monsters
  Surprise Baby is obsessed with Pokemon, toys I thought we were through with a decade ago. These cute little Japanese Pocket (Poké) Monsters (Mon) ...
• Let’s get physical
  It’s 7:40 on a Wednesday morning in mid-November and the first female premier of Newfoundland and Labrador sports a grimace as she faces her ...
• Oh, the horror!
  Bludgeoned babies were not what I expected to see when I went shopping for a morph suit for No. 3 to wear on Halloween. When I walked into the ...
• Scholarships 101
  I want to tell you a secret: there is free money out there waiting for your children. This time last year, I had no idea. But then it happened to ...
• Accident waiting to happen
  Oh happy day. For four years I have been waiting to see a crossing guard on Elizabeth Avenue at Rennies River Elementary in St. John’s. Today, a ...
• Overcoming the perils of the pond
  The first triathlon of the season is in Paradise on June 26. At 8 a.m., a bunch of brave swimmers will dive into Octagon Pond. The water ...
• Cuba for beginners
  In April, we packed up our family of seven, as well as a few neighbours, and left cold damp St. John’s for the sunnier skies of Cuba. Why Cuba? ...
• Young Eagles helps young people soar
  If you know a young person between the ages of eight and 17 who is interested in aviation, they might be ready to become a Young Eagle. Since the ...
• Operation helping hand
  In mid-July, Jessica Lewis went on vacation with her father, Ben. But 13-year-old Jessica didn’t go to Florida’s Disneyland or Canada’s ...
• Taking in Berlin
  It's hard to believe the wall that divided a city for nearly 30 years has already been gone for 20 years. When my husband and I took our five ...
• Free-range refugee
  I have always been a free-range sort of parent - letting my children wander and learn things for themselves. I'm not saying this method is any ...
• Family Fire
  Sparks fly from a welding torch in the shop at Coady's Metal Works at 110 Lime St. where Ron Coady has worked for more than three decades. Ron, a ...
• Baby wonder
  At least once a day I look at him and wonder where on Earth he came from. Declan is now one year old and seeing him lying there in the bed ...
• Hike into History
  Burgoyne's Cove Crash: RB-36H 51-13721 In the early morning of March 18, 1953, a huge explosion lit up the sky at Burgoyne's Cove, slightly ...
• Hanging with No. 9
  St. John's - Years ago, I was reading aloud to the younger children - it was an English translation of Roch Carrier's children's book, "Le ...
• Put up your Dukes
  It's early fall and three young teenagers are flying themselves, one by one, from St. John's to Bell Island. Alastair Allan, pilot and owner of ...
• Holding out hope
  Terry Fox's hometown is Port Coquitlam, B.C. In September 2006, when we were living in Surrey, just east of Vancouver, we decided to go to Port ...