Friday nights are family movie nights at my house. Recently we sat down to watch Journey to the Centre of the Earth, the re-make starring...

[Slightly Foxed, Issue 53, Spring 2017] I wanted to call this ‘How Children’s Literature Saved My Life’, but the simple truth is that my...

My three children and I have come to Craigleith Provincial Park to find fossils, and we aren’t disappointed. We have found fossils,...

Every year on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, I reflect on the limits of freedom, and upon how my life would have been...

In 1987, I was hired by the World University Service of Canada to teach English in a high school in Khaling, a small eastern valley in...

When my grandmother passed away, and her children gathered to clear out the family home in preparation for its sale, they found a fiddle,...