Off the Tongue

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When my son Doug was four years old, we paddled the Petawawa River with outdoor adventure filmmaker, Justine Curgenven....

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“Have I ever written about our ability as humans to forget pain and suffering, remembering only the good times?”...

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Muriel was tapping her toe. Ninety-two-year-old Phil knew most of the words. The accordion player, who wasn’t a whole...

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Jimmy Buffett died yesterday. When his box set Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads was released, I was pushing rubber down...

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The local shop showed up at our annual spring whitewater paddling festival with these white capital letters screened across...

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It didn’t make any sense to my father. He was a pragmatic man. I’m a truck driver’s son. After...

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