It’s 8:00 AM and Canadian expat Don Maybin has just arrived at Café de Crie, his favourite coffee shop in Fujisawa City south of Tokyo. As soon as the coffee shop staff see the tall Canadian coming through the door they begin preparing his regular breakfast: a cup of Darjeeling tea and a fuwa fuwa […]
Race Against The Tide
The people of Kangiqsujuaq in Canada risk death gather mussels … under huge blocks of ice. From Human Planet: Arctic – BBC One
Where I’ve Been
I know I’ve been gone, long gone. But I’m here. And for the first time in a long time, I’m happy, really happy!
Big news, we’ve sold our little ranch that we had bought, and moved into, right before I started writing for Life As A Human. I loved the ranch, loved the views, but really hated the solitude it brought. I really disliked the community that we were a “part of.” I use quotes because I never felt a part of it, the whole time we lived there. I was always a lurker, always held at an arm’s length.
Happy Everyday, Mom
Mother’s Day is months away, but Mary Rose proposes that we celebrate the mothers among us and the mothering spirit, every day.
Father Goose is Alive and Well
George Burden discovers that Father Goose is alive and well and living in Canada. His real name is Bill Lishman and you’ll read his story and say, “Oh, I know about him.”
Would the Real Klondike Kate Please Stand Up?
Writer George Burden says that the real Klondike Kate was not, in fact, a vaudeville performer, but an early feminist and trained nurse who was swooped up into the gold rush fever and travelled alone to the Klondike where she administered to sick and injured miners.
Casa Loma: The Tycoon’s Legacy
George Burden and Amanda Sutherland visit the 3.5 million dollar home of prominent Canadian financier, industrialist and military commander, Sir Henry Mill Pellat. Started in 1911 and completed in 1914, it’s luxury , antiquities and modern amenities may appear ostentatious but in actuality it just feels like a family home.
Saying Farewell and Moving On
As Lorne Daniel prepares to leave the town where he grew up, he uncovers layers of emotion and layers of the past as he moves into the future.
A Few of Baseball’s Broken Hearts
Baseball is a dreamer maker and a heart breaker. Nathan Thompson looks back on his own boyhood baseball hopes and on the career of former New York Yankee pitcher Hideki Irabu who died of an apparent suicide.
Don’t Call Me Ma’am
I was 29 years old and had just been called Ma’am. I was mortified. I didn’t believe it could get any worse. But it has.
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