Monthly Archives: November 2010

Ken came home from war

By Bruce | Published: November 11, 2010
First published in This Week, November 10, 1996. I know a man, the father of a friend. I grew up knowing this man, but over many years my memory may have become distorted. I may get the story a little wrong, but its essence remains the same. Ken came from the southern tip of Lake Manitoba, where [...]
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The prairie home

By Bruce | Published: November 4, 2010
Since there was a plentiful supply of poplar trees on all the homesteads the natural building material was logs, and they were used in all the houses. Some were built as lean-to’s [sic], and others had gable ends where the logs were trimmed and pinned together with wooden pegs. At first there were no shingles [...]
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The $3 poem

By Bruce | Published: November 1, 2010
But critical praise was of little use to the fatherless little family in Brantford where Pauline, approaching thirty, was desperately conscious of the fact that, so far from being a help to her mother, she was as dependent as her mother was on the generosity of the other members of the family. Mr. Charlesworth once [...]
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Bruce Wishart
Whimsies. Sometimes about writing.
Sometimes about folklore. Sometimes
about the sea, or life on the coast.
And sometimes not.