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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 Texas Cherokee grandma and I have one last "Big Time" and she gets a job offer from blues legend, Gatemouth Brown.

One morning, as the sun rose, I walked around the big scar made by the machines and put an offering of tobacco inside a large coyote track.

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.

A brush with my fey inner-Celt while looking over a four leaf clover.

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

The benefits of gentlemanly debate, literary honesty, intellectual courage and the bobcat logic of a California mink farmer.

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

How I was blessed to deliver a special message forty years after a war.

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.

A look at the Canadian government budgets, Vancouver money laundering and the global drug trade that asks, What if?"

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.