The Macho culture

I think the first time I ever really took note of this was in the early days of high school. It was gym class and suddenly 30 young men/boys were put into the change room to get into our gym outfits. What I witnessed was the first of many incidents where the bigger guys deciding…

Sandbanks vacation

After leaving Hamilton and summer camps behind, Philip asked the question, “what are we going to do all summer?” We decided to buy a tent trailer. We had little extra cash but we had enjoyed camping using others trailers or RV’s so we went went out to look. Then we began to discover this thing…

St. Giles Anglican Church

We (my parents and family) lived in Scarborough Ontario from July of 1969 to June of 1974. They were good days! The price of gas was around 34 cents per gallon (that’s 4.5L) and the houses in our neighbourhood sold for about $19,500. I remember doing a project on housing for school (Wexford Collegiate) as…