Four Japanese cherry trees grew in the back yard of my childhood home. In the summer, the trees provided much needed shade. Come winter, they became obstacles, standing within the rink my father carefully flooded outside our back door. They figured into skating lessons and hockey games. But these … [Read more...] about Ironic Cherry Blossoms
Sunday Stories
Sunday Story: Dancing with Crater Lake
Part one of this story is here: Drive to Crater Lake. I thought I was seeing it all that day, as I drove through the afternoon. Mountains, rivers and hills. I left the Columbia River behind at The Dalles, and carried on south. I still had a ways to go before reaching Klamath Falls. I drove … [Read more...] about Sunday Story: Dancing with Crater Lake
Sunday Story: The Drive to Crater Lake
It’s taken less than a month of near daily writing to get the memoir coming out of me again. It’s taken a while, to prime the pump, as they say, but it feels good. While writing Friday’s daily installment, I selected a photo of Crater Lake which prompted me to write this corresponding … [Read more...] about Sunday Story: The Drive to Crater Lake
Sunday Story: The Plasticine Airplane
On Friday I shared a link to an episode of The Daily podcast called The Sunday Read. The Daily is published by The New York Times. If they think Sunday, with its different pace for many, is a good day for stories, I'll forego years of my own research and start the Sunday Stories category of this … [Read more...] about Sunday Story: The Plasticine Airplane
A Quiet Christmas and the Purple Toilet
I thought I would hate a quiet Christmas. My first quiet Christmas happened in 2005. In the space of twelve months of that year, I set the intention to relocate from Toronto, Ontario to Kelowna, British Columbia. I made two trips in the spring to create the clients I needed to relocate my … [Read more...] about A Quiet Christmas and the Purple Toilet