Almost every weekday at four o’clock in the afternoon, I stop work and watch the Young and the Restless. It’s my dirty secret. The silly show is a nice break …
Heart of the matter
No matter who we are, we all want the same things. We all want to be sheltered from the heat and cold, have food to fill our stomachs, and to …
30 years of helping
STARS celebrated its 30th anniversary recently. I was lucky enough to write a piece on the history of volunteers with the Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society. Read the story by …
A Slightly Tainted Hero
He has done it again. Graham Clews released his second book of 2015. The Westlock, AB author is a writing machine and just launched A Slightly Tainted Hero. I’ve started …
A new type of Christmas story
Christmas is getting chilly…but not in the way you think. Turn on all the twinkling tree lights and get ready for some scary stories. My tale, The Stench of Christmas, …
Remembering our veterans
I’m wary of writing about my memoir writing participants from the Drop-In Centre because they are like you and me. Except these people have been hit a little harder by …
Ghost writers are real
What do you see sitting in the chair? It’s a ghost writer. Halloween means it’s time for apparitions to swirl outside or join us in our living rooms. This Victorian …
The “me” in memory
For an hour a week I write with a man who has Alzheimer’s disease. We write about the yellow leaves that fall on his front lawn. We write about eating …
Trail tales
I’m sitting in Skoki Lodge reading a book. The lodge itself must hold many, many stories as the log building is over 80 years old. The story I’m reading I …