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Vancouver Island Easter Morning (Coming Down)
O thou sweet-breath’d Isle of the Occidental Sea, Where the great Pacific doth croon Her lullaby against gentle shores, And all the Land,...
Earl Fowler
3 days ago2 min read
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Male delivery proves tricky
Bob Morrissey Recently, my close relative Marnie phoned, asking if I’d look after her 13-year-old daughter while she and her husband...
Earl Fowler
4 days ago4 min read
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Nothing In The Way She Walks
Earl Fowler It was a Monday. Or maybe it was a Wednesday. Does anybody really know what time it is? All I know for sure is that it was...
Earl Fowler
Apr 1410 min read
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Yiddishkeit: watching vanishing culture
David Sherman Walking past the grocery. I stopped. There’s a guy in a cap, white beard, looks to be my age. Catches my eye, tells me...
David Sherman
Apr 124 min read
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Parental Guidance, Then and Now
Earl Fowler I was maybe 10. He was 15 and would soon be growing his hair long and greasy as a peace-and-love hippie, travelling to...
Earl Fowler
Apr 106 min read
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Counting backwards to zero
Gather ’round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun, A man whose allegiance Is ruled by expedience. Call him a Nazi, he won’t even frown,...
Earl Fowler
Apr 713 min read
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To Serve Canadians
The good news is, we will NEVER be the 51st state—even if every citizen has a lobotomy and complies.

Jude Klassen
Apr 56 min read
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English gardens and my friend Moira
Jane Weary I’d lived on the street for over a year before we spoke. It was me, more gregarious, louder, younger, who’d initiated the...
David Sherman
Apr 15 min read
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Fat Chance vs The Magic Christian
Earl Fowler My mother-in-law was the lone congregant, single parishioner, unique supplicant in a religion of one. She was an adherent —...
Earl Fowler
Mar 2717 min read
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Don't visit Portugal. Stay home! Please
David Sherman Portugal’s western border is all coastline. Nothing but sand, water and cliffs of ancient stone, much of it from the...
David Sherman
Mar 255 min read
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Declarations Do Work Wonders
Quinn McIlhone I’m so overwhelmed by your allure I must affect a casual air, but the pose melts down on a humid morning in late August...
Earl Fowler
Mar 231 min read
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Curiosity killed the cat idea
Bob Morrissey First some sad news: On Dec. 2, my sweet little five-pound Shih Tzu, Katie, died. She passed away overnight in her sleep,...
Earl Fowler
Mar 214 min read
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Palliative-care: unparalleled humanity in the face of unbearable suffering
A version of this piece originally appeared in the Montreal Gazette David Sherman If you're looking for heroes for all seasons, they're...
David Sherman
Mar 204 min read
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To Infinity and Behind!
Earl Fowler This wasn’t no disco. No country club either. And here among the vulgar and tempestuous rabble of creeps and bums and...
Earl Fowler
Mar 189 min read
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If office work was like playing hockey
A version of this was originally published in the Montreal Gazette. David Sherman All this carping about violence on the rink. Let me...
David Sherman
Mar 174 min read
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On the Reich track
Earl Fowler The fury was predictable and entirely justified after U.S. DOGE hatchet man Elon Musk reposted a message on X Thursday...
Earl Fowler
Mar 145 min read
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Like a schmuck to water
Bob Morrissey I’ve always considered myself just an average guy with the usual peccadilloes. For instance, when I win at bingo, instead...
Earl Fowler
Mar 145 min read
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Can I quote you on that?
Earl Fowler Still had half a bottle of Hai Karate. Didn’t know whether to splash it under my ears, slather it along my neck or just get...
Earl Fowler
Mar 1211 min read
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Cane comes through in the crutch
Bob Morrissey A year ago I came out of the closet. No, it’s not what you think — not that there’s anything wrong with that. I simply...
Earl Fowler
Mar 114 min read
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If you see her, say goodbye
Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost? If on the lost, admit you turned aside From a great labyrinth out...
Earl Fowler
Mar 109 min read
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