He began to speak to her in French, and she would have to ask him to repeat himself and still not understand. It was a little game he played. You should have come to me for French lessons. In December, the school geared up for the customary Christmas concert of recitations, songs, drills, plays, ...
This happened fifteen years ago. She flew in from Vancouver and stayed with me over night, then continued on to Toronto the next day. I was living in Winnipeg at the time. My apartment wasn’t far from Osborne Street, so at dinnertime we walked the few blocks to the bridge, crossed the river, and ...
Movie night for the Fern foursome, since Dinah had insisted upon bundling up and coming over to escape Ida, who was beginning to drive her crazy, although what she really wanted, she said, was a smoke with her old pal Bill Bender. “The least, the last, and the lost,” they were fond of saying when...
It wasn’t a definite shape but a continuation of what they’d seen, yet it took on the shape in Harry’s mind of a garden, a garden in the wilderness. Now there were scattered trees again, more and more trees. On a single day, July 15, they portaged around Macdonald Falls, Dickson Canyon, and Ford ...