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Terry Groves
Mar 11, 20204 min read
B.R.A.T.S. The Old Oak Tree
Legends abound when you are a young brat. Read about my adventure in the arms of a fateful tree.
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Terry Groves
Feb 26, 20202 min read
B.R.A.T.S. Ka-bala and the Spirit World
When we lived in Clinton, I learned about a board-type game called Ka-bala. TV said it could predict the future, that it knew all my...
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Terry Groves
Feb 19, 20203 min read
B.R.A.T.S. The Slap Heard Around The World
Sometimes simple gestures carry the weight of the world.
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Terry Groves
Dec 19, 20192 min read
B.R.A.T.S. Clean Windows
It is peculiar how some memories remain so vivid while others fade. Perhaps that is just the course of your life. I know this one shows...
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Terry Groves
Dec 11, 20192 min read
B.R.A.T.S. Down the Up Stairs
When you're a kid, nothing has to be what it was designed to be. A youthful imagination can turn just about anything, into just about...
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Terry Groves
Dec 5, 20193 min read
B.R.A.T.S. Eating Out Before Fast Food
As you can imagine, money was tight in our family of eight. Us boys were growing fast and our furnaces needed constant stoking. Eating...
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Terry Groves
Nov 22, 20192 min read
B.R.A.T.S. The Base Theater
Going to the movies was quite a tradition when I lived in the PMQs in Clinton in the 60s. The theater was called The Pegasus, and had a...
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Terry Groves
Nov 14, 20192 min read
B.R.A.T.S. That's A Jip
My older brother Robin and I headed to the store. It was in a strip mall near Jameswood School. We were not supposed to go there but...
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Terry Groves
Oct 30, 20193 min read
B.R.A.T.S. The Summer Hollywood Came to Clinton
It was the summer of '67 or '68 and we were living in the PMQs at CFB Clinton. I guess my older brothers, Mark and Robin, were feeling...
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Terry Groves
Oct 23, 20192 min read
B.R.A.T.S. Jameswood Drive School Winnipeg
I don't have a lot of memories of Jameswood Drive school even though I went there for grade 1 and 2 beginning in 1963. Here is what I do...
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Terry Groves
Oct 9, 20192 min read
B.R.A.T.S. Slush - The Food of Dinosaurs
I don't know where this bit of trivia came from but I recall being told it by my older brother Mark. I am not certain why I recall this...
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Terry Groves
Sep 28, 20194 min read
B.R.A.T.S. Up In Smoke
In about 1968, when I was ten or so, I had a bit of a fascination with fire. I wasn't running around lighting them, I just liked how a...
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Terry Groves
Sep 19, 20194 min read
B.R.A.T.S. The Games We Played
It was all about the games.
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Terry Groves
Sep 12, 20194 min read
B.R.A.T.S. Glass Houses
Why do we make some of the choices we do?
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Terry Groves
Feb 11, 20193 min read
B.R.A.T.S. Cold Day in the Playground
Winter was magical when I was a kid. Being outside, even during a bitter cold Winnipeg winter was where we, my brothers and I, wanted to...
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Terry Groves
Feb 7, 20192 min read
Being a B.R.A.T.
Webster-Mirriam definition of brat. (Entry 1 of 2) 1a disparaging : child specifically : an ill-mannered annoying child a spoiled brat....
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