Ever Been To Winnipeg?

Somehow, Winnipeg arose in our conversation. There were three of us at first, shooting the breeze at last week’s Medicine Beach bread pick-up.

By the time others joined us, we learned that everyone had grown up in the Peg or spent large swaths of time there — except me.

In the late 1960s, my family stopped there on the way home from the Maritimes, where we often visited our eastern relatives in the summer.… Continue reading

The Golden City

Driving off the ferry at Tsawwassen, we catch our first glimpse of Vancouver, tiny against the Lions and the North Shore Mountains in the background, the expanse of farmland in the fore.

The dream of a golden city

It is nestled between rock, forest, water, fertile earth and sky of billowy clouds. It nurtures me still, 11 years after leaving it for Pender Island.… Continue reading