Tag: creative non fiction

Bug-Itis got a-hold on me …or don’t let the bedbugs bite

Bug-Itis got a-hold on me …or don’t let the bedbugs bite About 400 years ago, when I was a student at Oakridge Secondary School in London Ontario, one of the major events of the institution’s social calendar was a yearly dance featuring a group called the Mandala, commonly referred to, for some unknown reason, as..

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The Bear Essentials   June 1972

The Bear Essentials   June 1972   I have never been a happy camper.   When I was a small child, my parents forced me to go to a portentously named “cub camp” in Drumbo, Ontario, located on the Nith River. Even today, some sixty-five years later,  repeating these diabolical names makes me quake with wretched..

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