Earl Fowler Mostly it was because we were young and stupid and had never known anyone who had taken their own lives. But also we were...

Ah, Dad. If I could coax the flat washers from the jars in the garage with your Robertson screwdrivers and your chisels and pry bar,...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...