Internationally celebrated concert violinist, Yi-Jia Susanne Hue, has a sense of humor. She shared the following story about a reaction she got after saying she’d been given the use of a rare Stradivarius violin. Susanne was in the middle of recording an album when a loan agreement with the Canada Council expired on an earlier … More The $6 Million Used Car
“How would you like to see a real igloo?” Bryan asked. “You bet!” I replied. And that’s how I became caught up in a deadly Arctic blizzard. A colleague and I met for coffee at a restaurant in Inuvik, NWT, a town in Canada’s high Arctic, when the ever-gregarious Bryan Samson joined us. He’d become famous by then. … More The Igloo
New boat owners endure a multitude of experiences while climbing steep learning curves. Some lessons are basic, some are humorous and some are frustrating . . . all are expensive. We were no exception. It was spring and we’d just taken possession of our 25-foot sleep-aboard cruiser. For years, Judi and I had dreamed about … More Anchors Away!
Bad decisions can make good stories. Here’s one. It was mid-summer and we’d set off to find bike trails at our local ski resort. Biking on ski runs? The contradiction was intriguing. The resort had begun to operate year round. In winter, it offers traditional downhill and cross-country skiing. And now in summer, it had opened many … More Comin’ Down The Mountain
John Thomas Shelley was a big man, both in stature and in his line of work. He was tall and sported an abundant girth that strained the captain’s chair where he presided over a family table seating up to 12. JT could be firm. He needed to be. He’d fathered 10 children and was a leader … More The Foot Race
We’ve two great milestones to share with you: First, this preoccupation I have about writing short stories has yielded a happy result once again. A new book containing two of my humorous short stories is due for release next week, on Wednesday, October 15. It will be available on Amazon.ca and at a number of … More Milestones
How can we know the depth of loss a five-year-old boy feels when his dog dies? How do we explain where his beloved pet has gone? Chayton and his Mom lost their dog Kobe early one morning recently. Tamara woke around 4:30 a.m. She wasn’t sure why at first, and then she heard unusual noises … More Kobe
Terry was a pretty high school student with a bubbly personality, honor grades, and a circle of close friends. Life was good. Best of all, she was dating John. They’d started going out when John was 16. She was 15. Within a year, they’d become ‘an item’ among the high school crowd in their small … More Terry’s Story: A Modern-Day, Old-Fashioned Love Story
That fall, Mike and I were seven years old. We were the entire second grade class in our one-room country school. Everyone else was older. There were no first graders. The big boys tolerated us hanging around, probably to ensure we didn’t find anything more interesting to get into. We wouldn’t dare. Those were the rules. One morning … More Upstream
We hadn’t planned on visiting the United States that day . . . and certainly not that way. The previous afternoon, we’d watched our grandson receive his pre-med science degree. Mighty proud we were. Yup, David was on his way to doctor school! The next day, with the festivities over, my wonderful wife and I focused our minds … More The Route Home
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