Terry Fallis
Age is just a number, right?
Okay, I admit it. I have a problem. It has to do with my age. The number is simply too big. This was brought home recently when a group of my high school classmates started …more
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Terry Fallis
So long summer, hello school! Great to be back!
I’ve already written in this space about just how excited my twin brother and I were as kids as the final days of June dragged by and the summer beckoned. My powers of concentration were …more
Terry Fallis
My summers at the Howard Talbot Golf and Country Club
One of the great blessings of my Leaside childhood was growing up in a home less than a block from Howard Talbot Park. While it seems less common among young parents today, our wonderful mother …more
Terry Fallis
The Leaside Pool was our playground
During those hot and hazy summer weekends of our adolescence, when for some reason we weren’t at the family cottage, my brother Tim and I would end up spending a good part of our Saturdays …more
Terry Fallis
“No more pencils, no more books…”
I remember the feeling so well. Sitting in the classroom at Bessborough Public School in early June, dreaming of summer vacation. The weeks never dragged more slowly than when the sun was out, the temperature …more
Terry Fallis
Fallis sermonizes on the need for political engagement
Well, it’s election time. You can tell by how many times your phone or doorbell rings just as you sit down to dinner. Yes, I know, on a Friday evening, you may not want to …more
Terry Fallis
Flight or plight?
As a kid, I was always fascinated by things that flew — airplanes, gliders, rockets, helicopters, and yes, hovercraft. If you happened to make it through my column in the last issue of Leaside Life, …more
Terry Fallis
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s a hovercraft?
The grainy photo reminds me that this all unfolded more than 43 years ago in Leaside. When I was 15 and living at the corner of Parkhurst and Donegall, I was apparently not content with …more
Terry Fallis
Memories of Bayview
Growing up at the corner of Parkhurst and Donegall ensured that Bayview was a very familiar strip for me. My mother would do at least some of the family grocery shopping on Bayview. She was …more
Terry Fallis
January 1975 and my first part-time job
The turn of the calendar always prompts thoughts and memories of new beginnings, resolutions kept and abandoned—I’m particularly familiar with the abandoned category—and just how breathtakingly cold it can be in January. At this time …more