The sun shines!

Last evening as I drove east and then west on the same road, the sun was setting. It seemed dramatic, especially on my westbound trip heading home. The sun was coloured by the smoke in the air ,and the haze gave a ghostly outline to the downtown office towers. On the prairies, the sun is…

Sunshine on my shoulder

Winter on the prairies is quite different than the ones I have experienced east of here. I’ve spent winters in Newfoundland – the Avalon Peninsula – and in St. John New Brunswick as well as Southern Ontario, and those winters are dull, cloudy and have a not-so-lovely tone of cloud and darkness. But out here…

What does it mean to be a kid at heart?

I have a memory – a strong one. I am at the cottage – Jim and I with our almost white blonde hair grabbing our “water shoes”… old running shoes to wear in the water so we don’t get “blood suckers” between our toes. We jump in the water and walk along the shore of…