The Other Things Tales from isolation: Working, learning, living 23 Apr 202023 Apr 2020 When the schools closed in Montreal, my wife and our youngest child moved to the countryside, where winter lasts till May and there are no close neighbours, forcing physical distancing.…
Short hops A walk in the park: Coaticook Gorge, Foresta Lumina, Charles de Lint, and us 24 Sep 201824 Sep 2018 You just have to pay attention. If you don't, you'll miss them, or see something else — something you expected to see rather than what was really there. Faerie voices…
Short hops A walk in the park: The devil at the Forges du Saint-Mauricie 17 Sep 201818 Sep 2018 The retelling of a legend from the historic Forges in La Mauricie is part of an occasional series exploring North America’s national, provincial and state parks. The call was as common along…
Short hops A well-travelled man and a dog named Big, surrounded by friends 10 Sep 201830 Aug 2018 CUSHING, Que. — The dog’s name is Big. He is black and white with a head the size of a five-pound bag of potatoes. We aren’t out of the car…
Summer Sometimes you need to shake the dust off — off-road 16 Aug 2018 AT THE QUEBEC/ONTARIO BORDER — Tensions were high in the car. Melani’s Google Maps app wouldn’t let her choose the path less taken and she was growing more frustrated by…
Summer The Perseids, a wedding party, and a man named Danny 13 Aug 201813 Aug 2018 TRÉCESSON, QC — We arrived in Amos after dark and under cloudy skies the night the Perseid meteor shower peaked. It had taken us nine hours to do a seven-hour…
