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The Other Things

Five hundred and forty kilometres, and a lifetime

14 Jun 201617 Jul 2016
TORONTO There are 540 kilometres between my office and my aunt’s house. Last week, my office was full of meetings, big ideas and little frustrations, posturing and punning. My aunt’s house…
The Other Things

In celebration of aunts, or how I became a little like my mother’s sisters

4 Mar 201622 Mar 2016
Of all the nieces and nephews, I wasn’t the easiest to love. I didn’t live near the rest of the cousins, but it was more than that, the way I…
Dirty weekend…

‘To a Zwillinge, from a Zwillinge, Love Inga’

14 Feb 201120 Jul 2012
TORONTO – Her arrival is announced by a rattling at the key hole. Aunt G and Uncle C share a look across the room. Their relationship with their neighbour is…
Dirty weekend

The little VFW of Bigfork

2 Feb 201120 Jul 2012
From April 28, 2009 The VFW in Bigfork is about a quarter the size of the one in Kalispell. It’s a shack on the side of a hill and most…
Dirty weekend

I smoke like a Canadian, too

1 Feb 201129 Jul 2012
  From April 27, 2009   When we left the VFW in Kalispell, we started down the highway to Bigfork. It’s a twenty-minute drive, though, and Miller time happened halfway…
Dirty weekend

Mr. Dill Pickle

1 Feb 201129 Jul 2012
  From April 27, 2009   At the VFW lounge (Veterans of Foreign Wars, which I guess means no Civil War vets need apply), Aunt L made beeline for the…

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