Category: Family
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Kirsten
The birth of Kirsten, our first daughter, was an exciting event. Diane was in Regina General Hospital where I sat waiting. Her…
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My Residences
My father was a Gypsy, a nomad never happy with where he lived, so he moved from place to place. The one…
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My Sister Helen
When I was five years old, I had rheumatic fever and had to stay home from school all winter. During that time…
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Christmas 2020
Christmas 2020 was in many ways lousy because of the Covid-19 pandemic. It was Code Red, which meant you could not gather…
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Brother Wilfred
Wilfred was my older brother who died at age 14, three months after I was born in August of 1938. He…
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Herman’s Funeral
I have not yet gone to play tenor sax at the Church of John Coltrane in San Francisco because I have another…
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The Clown
During the 20-odd years we lived in our 15-room, three-storey house on Maplewood Avenue in Winnipeg’s old Riverview district, we had a…