Category: Childhood

• Boyhood Dreams

  When I was just a boy of ten I walked to school each day A mile the path but hundreds then That…

• Farm Etiquette

  Farmyard rules never bending Barnyard work never ending  Do the chores ever tending Chickens and sheep, ever mending Fences to keep the…

• Inner Core

  At age of four       you learned the way                how not to stray   When you were two     …

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  Rice and Curry

  My favourite recipe is Rice and Curry. I learned how to make it from my mother. She learned how to make it…

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  Farm Memories

  The last big health scare happened 100 years ago. It was the Spanish flu of 1918, the year my parents got married.…

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  Electric Fence

  The farm where I grew up near Winkler was often a place of mystery, but things I did not understand as a…

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  Poplar Tree

  There was a significant 100-year-old poplar tree on our farmland at Winkler, Manitoba that had grown into a cluster of seven or…

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  First Day at School

  School starts again this week. Labour Day has passed and the time has come for my grandchildren to pick uo their knapsacks…

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  Baseball

  I never was much good at sports. Give me pen and paper and I’ll write a story. Give me a sheet of…