These are ramblings, repeated wisdom and everything else. Possibly a blog.
Finalists for 2017 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction http://www.cbc.ca/books/duncan-mccue-rajiv-surendra-sonja-larsen-nominated-for-edna-staebler-award-1.4292391
Since your death our conversations have gotten better. You ask about the birds we have here on the island. Your garden, like your mothers, was filled with bird feeders. You…
When I was 12 my mother told me that I should write the history of the revolution she believed would happen in her lifetime. At sixteen I was sitting in…
Thirty-three years ago today the second American revolution was supposed to begin. I sometimes wonder if it was all an elaborate joke the Old Man (aka Gerald Dodein aka Gino…
Here is a picture that a friend sent to me of a book case at the Tommy Douglas library. I’m in some pretty interesting company there, but then again, these feel like…
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Fall Thoughts It’s cliché but the September light just gets me every time. And this feeling of renewal. Fresh pencils, fresh pages. The metaphoric made real. I often dreaded school…
First there was the silence, The years and years of silence. Then slowly there were a few stories. I let it slip that my entire alternative school use to go skinny dipping…
Books had a prominent but complicated place on my mother’s side of the family. Books gave you status, proof that you were not ignorant. I always got the impression that…
I saw this on my walk today and thought about you. You were the blonde woman with the radiant smile at the writer’s retreat. Your smile, your hair, they were…