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Easter 1966

Easter 1966

Forty years ago this Easter I was convinced my mom had won the Irish Sweepstakes. I didn’t know it at the time but the only way you could get Irish Sweepstakes tickets was on the black market. Mom had been buying them from “a friend of a friend” for years and she’d...
My Frankenstein Car

My Frankenstein Car

This was my first car. It was a 1969 Chevelle and cost $25. I was dating a mechanic, Pat, at the time and for my 18th birthday he bought it for me off a farmer in Lunenberg, Ontario. It had been sitting in the farmer’s barn for years with a seized engine, missing...
I Need To Know The Words

I Need To Know The Words

The other day while in the car, I was listening to a performance of First Nations drumming on the CBC. Caught up in their cadence and the sound of their chants I began to recall the first time I had attended a Pow Wow… When I knew him, Bill was a tall, thin man in his...