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Hitch-hiking from Lynn Valley to Tangiers. Introduction to Travel Stories.

Love and hate, an old car and a young wife.

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

A bayou boy meets Lata Mangeshkar up on North Vancouver's Lynn Creek.

A true ghost story from 1970’s Nanaimo where something is not quite right with an old house on Harewood Rd.

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

There are two ways to fix your brakes and neither one works. A lesson from high school revisited upon retirement.

The Hand at work, reconciling my unnecessary guilt using mountains, mailmen and Marines.

Looking back at my schooling from Louisiana to Squamish.

How I narrowly avoided being "set for life."

In which my youngest son learns about ability and teaches me about motivation.

Timing is everything for an eighteen year old Lynn Valley cook with an interest in ethnobotany.

A little talk about aging and dentistry in the North Shore Mountains and how my wisdom tooth came to rest on Crown Mtn.

The thief stood nonchalantly and perfectly calm. He placed both hands on the counter and continued whistling softly.

Tracing the thread of my favorite Neil Young song through the fabric of my life.

Unwrapping Christmases past. Featuring: "A Child’s Christmas In Wales" by Dylan Thomas.

About my first cat, Thermocouple. In time, I learned that cats are not at all like wolves and in fact, they resent the comparison.

How a Lynn Valley boy went from pipe-fitter to banker in one change of clothes.