Many of us learn the virtues of hope, faith and charity as we grow up. But how do those virtues really serve us through our lives. As Victoria Klassen discovers, there’s a flip side to everything.
About Victoria Klassen
Tori Klassen is a writer with a day job, a marathon runner and a lover of peace and quiet who thrives on living downtown. A former radio reporter, she makes a living doing corporate communications but still wants to be a foreign correspondent and a great novelist.
When she turns 50 she plans to run the Boston Marathon, jump out of an airplane and rappel out of a helicopter. She is a mother and a grandmother who wonders if it's too late to become an astrophysicist. She can be seen occasionally at the opera wearing a full-length gown and gloves, but she has an Allen key set in her evening bag – just in case.
Retirement Plans
While other writers have been talking of clutter in these pages, I’m ever-so-slowly getting rid of everything. Giving it away mostly. I’ve been shrinking into smaller places for the last ten years, since my marriage broke up.
Of Toenails and Teenage Wisdom
A runner’s foot makes the ultimate sacrifice in the name of health and fitness.
Mayor of Cook Street Village Laundromat
Here’s the thing: in between success and failure, glamour and an old bathrobe, a laundry room and a laundromat, I like to think there lies in me a hard-working mom with one job, no car, a few too many debts, and a certain graceful resilience.
Resonance
I feel vibrations in my feet when I stand on the stairs, after I’ve come in from a run on a weekend morning. I like to think it is the past residents of this old building buzzing through the place; I close my eyes and imagine they are leaving impressions of their lives. I trust […]
Scar Tissue: Seeing Beyond Dating Chaos
I realize everyone has baggage. (Ahem, those without baggage tend to be extremely boring. Sorry. It’s true.) I try to be a compassionate person who can wait it out for the right guy. Not for the truly married ones mind you, but for the truly separated ones who are going through a hard time before the inevitable divorce.
Laundry Day
Maybe the resolution last year would have been more successful if it been “Remain celibate and joyfully single” rather than the trap-door-open-for-sex-and-entanglement wording: “Remain joyfully single.”
Why I’m Really Running This Marathon
I think I’m running the Royal Victoria Marathon this year for Sarah; Oct 1, 1992 – Oct 5, 1992. Sarah Estelle Jean Klassen Wotherspoon was born five weeks early, but she weighed 5 lbs, 10 oz – a healthy weight for a preemie. It was a Thursday. The pediatrician expected a good outcome, despite her […]
Cougars are Carnivores: Adventures With Younger Men
He smoked pot almost daily. His hair was long and curly and red. And soft. He was – dare I say it – well endowed and well skilled.