Artemisia

My first encounter with the spirit of St. Melangell.

In which Mr. Rodrigues teaches me an ancient Portuguese healing art.

How a female coyote helped me decide when to retire from Canada Post.

My first and last days as a postie and some of the folks who helped me to cross and celebrate the finish. Busting the myth of invisibility.

A Vancouver letter-carrier fills the unforgiving minutes on Fraser Street.

Peering through the fog of evolution at some of the characters we might encounter.

My mid-life crisis is shot down before it has a chance to blossom into full flower.

How I learned to bridge the inter-generational empathy gap between co-workers in a variety of employment scenarios using Bobcat Logic.

Two kinds of snow, two kinds of teachers, chips, giggles and two kinds of spanakopita with the aim of opening the third sphincter.

How I came to wear those little bells on my key-chain.

Welfare Wednesdays on a 1980s Vancouver East Side postal route.

Guru Gobind Singh meets Joseph Smith on a Vancouver sidewalk, who then meets the Lynn Valley Buddha. Story by Michael Hawes.

World Cup Fever, drive-by shootings and an epic East Vancouver corner kick.

Deer hunting in the the headlights of unheeded intuition.

A tale of birth and of control.

Human Healing Cycles + Constant Efficiency of Life / Modern Modes + Meds + Meditation = A New Natural.

We are all students and teachers by turns. Of mice and men, dollars and sins, winners who lose and losers who win.

Of fathers, sons, houses, hearts, full bottles and empty holes.