The Hotel Vancouver, 1950
Note from Editor/Daughter: This story, from my dad’s journal of memories, is about a job he had at the Hotel Vancouver in 1950. When I left the cedar mill, I […]
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Working at Arctic Ice Cream in Vancouver, 1951
Editor/Daughter’s Note: From my dad’s journal of memories, this story from Vancouver in 1951. I met a young Dane named Poul and we moved into a rooming house on Thurlow […]
Tracking Down Places from the Past: The Wharf at Siø
The island’s wharf was a 600-foot-long stone dyke with pilings at the end and a deck over them creating a circular platform wide enough to turn around a horse drawn […]
To Read on the Road: Novels Set in Ireland
On the plane to Ireland I had to admit I didn’t much like James Joyce to my Irish seat-mate. She exclaimed, “Oh my dear, no one ever actually reads Joyce, they […]
My Dad’s Stories: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Langeland where I was born has been described by romantic women as the ‘Rose in the Sea’. Editor/Daughter’s Note: When my dad was in his 80s he wrote up his memories […]
11 Dead in Oaxaca (Mexico)
Guadalajara, 2006. There’s a protest in the Zocalo. ‘LA PAX DE FOX’ reads one sign, the dove’s wings degrading into knives and bayonets, dripping blood. PAX is ‘peace‘, FOX is […]
to Read on the Road: Novels Set in Vietnam
I’m not fond of war so none of the books I chose to read in Vietnam were about the Vietnamese War except as a backdrop. Instead the books focussed on […]
