I suspect I am having a heart attack when I leave the ice after a hard shift. We are defending the blue line in a one-goal game. My breath is shallow, and I pull breaths through a clamping pain below my sternum. It doesn’t feel like indigestion; the pain doesn’t move. I reach the bench …
Someone said that it is a truly Canadian bird because the only place it breeds and takes care of its young is in Canada. And in the subarctic above the tree line at that. To be sure other birds breed here, but they do so in other places as well. The Lapland Longspur for one. …
The following morning, my parents and I waited in front of the Family Services Association on Wellesley Street, along with about twenty to thirty kids and their parents. A bus was coming to take us to Illahee Lodge, a large stately mansion on the shores of Lake Ontario in Cobourg. Dad stood proudly, his arm …