Missing You

You're going to die. Live with it.

Leave ’em laughing when you go

Earl Fowler I didn’t know George Ferguson. I’m glad I never lent him money. But I wish we’d knocked back a Guinness or two. And I...

Coming Down From the Mountain

The dead inform the behaviour of the living even when they go early. I don my blue wedding suit and finest manners for the funeral of...

True Dharma White Lotus Sūtra 57

Earl Fowler Jan. 16, 2014, was the day Sarnia-born David Madden, who played Reuben Kincaid on The Partridge Family, Russell Johnson, who...

Remembering the one and the only Susan Kastner

David Sherman To know her was to love her, though her intelligence and sense of humour towered over her tiny frame, even with the shock...

Amidst Tragedy and Heartbreak, Everyday Rituals Missed Most

By Tim Harper It just happens. No one arranges it. No one takes attendance. We just gather there, four of us who have sidled up to our...

Mission Montréal

Haven’t been to Montreal in months. Our county, in the mountains north of the city, is sealed, enforced by police roadblocks. It is not...

Luc and Another Dimension

By David Sherman I met Luc at the town's breakfast nook. Coffee, bacon and bread was thin, service slow but it's where you meet your...

Getting to know Le Frog

By Jim Withers Friendships can begin in the most unlikely ways. At least mine did with Peter LeClair, who died at 3 a.m. on April 1 in...

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