When I was a 17-year-old high school graduate, I joined the Canadian Military. I learned everything from administration to guns and tanks, but the most important thing I took away was comradeship, respect and appreciation. It was peacetime and doing my bit seemed like the right thing to do as I was raised by parents who […]
Prairie Girls
A prairie-born author examines the true meaning of being a girl from the prairies and what that means when it comes to defining true friendship and values.
Listen to the Wind
Who’s afraid of the wind? This force of nature can come with a gentle, nurturing caress or a vengeance that shakes human souls to the core. It carries an indomitable power over the earth that has controlled the way we live since the first spark of life on the planet.
Sleeping With One Eye Open
A happy couple’s life becomes an episode from The Twilight Zone as a stray cat with a strange and scary behaviour problem invades a once-peaceful household.
Where the River Meets the Ocean
A family man fatalistically accepts his impending death by drowning only to be given the means to really begin living.
November 11 – Remembering Those Who Stayed Behind
As a wounded world began the year of 1946, the cloud of destruction and sorrow that had claimed Europe was lifting. Instead of horrific stories and traumatized soldiers, Doris was seeing hopeful faces and happy jubilation everywhere on the streets of England. The excited war brides in particular started Doris thinking about her desperate decision to end her relationship with the man she truly did love. Was it too late?
The Boy In the Theatre: A True Ghost Story
An abandoned, original old movie theatre still holds ghostly customers from its past and calls to its former owner in her dreams.
Even Donkeys Get Drinking Problems
What’s a man to do when he adopts a pet with a drinking problem? A humorous look at an unusual friendship in a culture few get to see and even fewer understand.
A Just Assignment
I have always believed there had to be a special place for people who inflicted cruel harm on animals with a personal agenda as the justification. Recently I began to see there may be a correlation between the heartless and a certain member of the animal kingdom that helps make sense of a senseless world at times. And it’s a perfect solution.
How to Love a Rooster
Winston was a rooster. Not an ordinary rooster by any stretch of the means but more of an odd combination of stunning, regal looks coupled with an on-again, off-again personality of the infamous Cujo, subject of Stephen King’s novel about a rabid St. Bernard.