Artemisia

While working as a gas-fitters in North Vancouver, Lars and I have an impromptu lunch with Charlton Heston.

Justice is as sure as the sun-rise without any help from us. Otherwise life would be a ragged march to nowhere for all but the depraved.

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.

How I came to learn my Cherokee clan membership, Aniwaya.

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

Anything shared with the world from your heart is a Tumbleweed Letter. Great Spirit reads them all.

Navigating sexual orientation and the integrity of friendship before the rainbow.

Healing, hurting, hauling, howling and hoping on the Sea To Sky Highway.

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."

While working on the North Vancouver waterfront as a young man in the Seventies, I win a battle and lose a war.

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.

In which I am saved from serious injury by an ancestral Calabrian grape-vine.