I’ve never disliked Irishmen. In fact, being a born Newfoundlander, the lilting accent and ruddy-faced smiles of Dublin make me feel more at home than I usually do on the North American mainland. There is one Irishman, however, towards whom I’ve recently developed a decided antipathy. His name is Murphy. You know, the one whose […]
Celebrating Single-Parent Mothers on Father’s Day
Today our society is filled with many single-parent households, many of which are headed by women. Do they make single-parent Father’s Day cards for mothers?
Something to Remember Me By
Special occasions like Mother’s and Father’s Day usually went by with very little fanfare at our house. Choosing gifts for one another was not my parent’s forte. Mum gave Dad his fair share of socks and ties for Father’s Day, and while other ladies we knew received pearl earrings or flowers and chocolates on birthdays and anniversaries, Dad would present Mum with a coffee percolator or an electric can opener…
A Sacred Time
On a tranquil summer’s evening at Peach Lake, Star Weiss and her father set out in a canoe and the daughter learns things about her father’s life she never knew.
A Father’s Love
Father’s Day. A time to celebrate those men who stand steadily by, waving the BBQ brush in the air, strong hands hold gently as you pour out the sadness of your heart. I always think of my dad as the one who would fix everything with patient hands that spoke of his quiet heart. He wasn’t […]
How I Became a Conflicted Omnivore
Meat became much more than just meat for me that day. It has become a real and living issue about love and humanity and a concern about how the way we extend ourselves into the world becomes, in turn, what we are. We become what we do, and what we do is terrible.
Good Morning
Mornings have become practically unrecognizable with the addition of two small children but amidst the chaos is sweetness.
S/he: Stuck
As Schmutzie discovered, coming of age in the middle of a gender crisis is less fun than you’d think…
Love is Always in Fashion
Bess is 97 years old. If she finds out I put her age on the internet she’ll kill me. She still gives us fashion advice and can tell you what kind of shoes every visitor she has had was wearing.
Just When You Thought You Had Enough
The discovery that her man has betrayed her leads our writer to seek therapy to open the trap doors beneath the betrayal. And what lies beneath is a shocking form of abuse.
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