Farewell Mary Lou

This is almost as sad as when Vicki Gabereau left radio. I remember watching Barbara Frum and Mary Lou Finlay on the Journal when I was in high school. One of the few CBC radio programmes I can get on the radio is As It Happens with good old Mary Lou. She turns chatting on the phone into an art: funny when she wants to be and probing when she has to be.

Am I the only one who notices the passage of time through the comings and goings of CBC journalists? Peter Mansbridge loosing his hair and now eerily blond/white. Wendy Mesley fighting breast cancer. So much for the dream that the Canada I'll return to will be exactly the one I left. Sigh.