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City Workers Strike = New TO Family Traditions

DAILY SNACK

We had it planned out.

Ed double bagged the garbage that had been sitting in the sun for weeks.

He carried it downstairs and left it near the car.

I got the kids in and opened all the windows.

He threw the garbage in the back of the car.

(Hatchback — no trunk.)

He jumped into the car and I drove.

It took ten minutes to get to the temporary dump,

Caught every single red light.

We drove around all afternoon with the windows open to get rid of the smell.

Last summer we went swimming as a family on weekends.

But this is good too.

By Rebecca Cuneo Keenan

Rebecca Cuneo Keenan is a writer who lives in Toronto with her husband and three children.