Lessons

  • Arrested Movement

    Arrested Movement

    Every spring the runoff flows down a slight decline to fill the dugout. It was engineered…

  • Tend to the Task at Hand

    Tend to the Task at Hand

    When the barley ripens, or the wheat — reap it. When the zucchini hangs heavy on…

  • Rounding the Curve

    Rounding the Curve

    On the 18 heading east, just out of Big Beaver, and the road drops down into…

  • Bill the Fiddler

    Hot lunch hour on Scarth Street and I sat on the same quad of benches as…

  • It takes nothing to forget

    It was her birthday yesterday, she would have been 57. It’s hard to imagine that, since…

  • The Gap is Treaty 4 Land

    The Gap is Treaty 4 Land

    When I was a kid, we learned about Louis Riel. We learned that there used to…

  • A Harangue

    A Harangue

    ha·rangue [huh–rang] noun.  1. a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe. 2.a long, passionate,…