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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.

Human knowledge of reality, evident in folk cultures and now preserved in academic studies, is yet still visible to those who can see.

A fond look back at my ongoing relationship with Suzi and why we both “belong outdoors.”