http://www.northernpen.ca/images/logo/26_NPen.gifhttp://www.northernpen.ca/List of the latest articles from this category.http://www.northernpen.ca/Thu, 17 May 2012 17:02:35 -0400Thu, 17 May 2012 17:02:35 -0400enhttp://www.northernpen.ca/Columnists/Toni-Kearney-/2011-09-26/article-2760090/Love-and-marriage/1Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:41:52 -0400With all the weddings that occurred this past summer, I got to thinking about marriage. Marriage is defined by Google as the formal union of a man and a woman, typically recognized by law, by which they become husband and wife. Do people really need a little piece of paper to justify their ...http://www.northernpen.ca/Columnists/Toni-Kearney-/2011-09-26/article-2760090/Love-and-marriage/1info@northernpen.caToni Kearney http://www.northernpen.ca/Columnists/Toni-Kearney-/2011-09-26/article-2760090/Love-and-marriage/1http://www.northernpen.ca/Columnists/Toni-Kearney-/2011-09-12/article-2743812/The-envy-green-alien/1Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:04:00 -0400You're not supposed to be jealous of your friends. I admit it -- I am.My best friends have moved away from the community of Conche and I couldn't be more lost. One has moved into St. John's to begin university. I envy her completely. I think to myself, if only I had been born a year earlier I ...http://www.northernpen.ca/Columnists/Toni-Kearney-/2011-09-12/article-2743812/The-envy-green-alien/1info@northernpen.caToni Kearney http://www.northernpen.ca/Columnists/Toni-Kearney-/2011-09-12/article-2743812/The-envy-green-alien/1http://www.northernpen.ca/Columnists/Toni-Kearney-/2011-08-01/article-2682019/Leave-us-alone-and-let-us-fish/1Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:04:00 -0400I just about burst out laughing after reading a clipping in the paper a short time ago. I wasn't laughing at a spelling mistake, nor was I laughing at a funny photograph. This clipping was very well written and informative -- serving its purpose. The headline was enough to pull me in. After ...http://www.northernpen.ca/Columnists/Toni-Kearney-/2011-08-01/article-2682019/Leave-us-alone-and-let-us-fish/1info@northernpen.caToni Kearney http://www.northernpen.ca/Columnists/Toni-Kearney-/2011-08-01/article-2682019/Leave-us-alone-and-let-us-fish/1http://www.northernpen.ca/Columnists/Toni-Kearney-/2011-07-18/article-2654656/Orchestra-of-hushed-voices/1Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:10:00 -0400 When you live in rural Newfoundland, you know that all members of the community know your name and you know theirs. You know that if there's any event going on during the upcoming weeks it's definitely posted on a bulletin board at the convenience store. You know that the local fish plant is ...http://www.northernpen.ca/Columnists/Toni-Kearney-/2011-07-18/article-2654656/Orchestra-of-hushed-voices/1info@northernpen.caToni Kearney http://www.northernpen.ca/Columnists/Toni-Kearney-/2011-07-18/article-2654656/Orchestra-of-hushed-voices/1http://www.northernpen.ca/Columnists/Toni-Kearney-/2011-07-04/article-2623924/Rainy-days-to-do/1Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:03:00 -0400 Although it doesn't feel like it, summer is officially here. All of your final exams are finished, school's out, your report card is as you hoped, and your summer job doesn't start until next week... things are looking good. Everything is falling perfectly into place, except for that one thing ...http://www.northernpen.ca/Columnists/Toni-Kearney-/2011-07-04/article-2623924/Rainy-days-to-do/1info@northernpen.caToni Kearney http://www.northernpen.ca/Columnists/Toni-Kearney-/2011-07-04/article-2623924/Rainy-days-to-do/1http://www.northernpen.ca/Columnists/Toni-Kearney-/2011-05-23/article-2523554/Everyone-has-a-ghost/1Mon, 23 May 2011 02:01:00 -0400 We think that we have ourselves figured out. We’ll be off to university in a few months, or a year, or soon enough, and most of us have our direction already planned and plotted. We know what we are going to become, or we have a pretty distinct idea. We know who our friends are — or at least ...http://www.northernpen.ca/Columnists/Toni-Kearney-/2011-05-23/article-2523554/Everyone-has-a-ghost/1info@northernpen.caToni Kearney http://www.northernpen.ca/Columnists/Toni-Kearney-/2011-05-23/article-2523554/Everyone-has-a-ghost/1