Missing You

You're going to die. Live with it.

Oct 272 min read

Modern Prometheus: The Obituary

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel. — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Earl Fowler It is with a mix of bemusement and...

Aug 3017 min read

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...

Aug 141 min read

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...

Apr 101 min read

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...

Nov 28, 20232 min read

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...

May 20, 20203 min read

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...

May 2, 20205 min read

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...

Apr 12, 20206 min read

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...

Apr 4, 20207 min read

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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