For Birgit Piskor and her friend Perry, a kayaking adventure in pursuit of gray whale sightings off the southern Baja Peninsula turns into a near-deadly encounter with two of the huge mammals.
Remembrance Day – Letter To My Grandfather
Guest Author Steve B. Davis writes a letter to his grandfather. A Remembrance Day tribute to him and all the others that served our country so unselfishly.
The Brooding Soldier
While standing at the base of The Brooding Soldier in St. Julien, I had tears in my eyes and was filled with mixed emotions.
Potato Bread
I worked in father’s bakery. Peeled potatoes for potato bread. Melted dark chocolate. Washed copper pots and whisks and baking sheets. Swept wide-plank oak floors.
(Almost) The Last Ride
The world had gone white sometime overnight; I could barely see the road ahead. Wipers were useless, as were the other two in the car with me, who had begged me to drive them home.
Calcutta, India: Bazaars and Markets
Guest Author Sonya Ward writes about her childhood days in Calcutta, India in the early forties.
Rosa Mosqueta
How illness brings you closer to family.
Is Best Better Than Good?
Guest Author Brian Kazaara writes about the dangers of attaching the labels “Best” and “Better” on the human psyche.
Saying Good-Bye, Again
Guest Author Carole Poppleton-Schrading shares a daughter’s struggle to make peace with an alcoholic parent.
Norman – In Memoriam
When I was a child, there was a man in my life that taught me about integrity, honour and basic human decency. He taught me that a man’s greatest strength was his word and his ability, his determination, to live by it. As a child being raised by a single mother, I found in this […]
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