Mar 17, 2008 | Essays
– Hold On To Your Hats – written for ‘Down to Earth – Guide to Organics in Manitoba. Every night as my family heads up to the TV room to load up on the latest war news, I pull out a book I’ve been reading called ‘Natural Capitalism’ by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and L....
Oct 17, 2007 | Essays
– Submitted to CBC’s Search for the 7 Wonders of Canada There’s a rise of land in southwest Manitoba that embodies the understated greatness of Canada. We can take back-roads lined by 100 year-old oaks up to Lake William – watching for moose, elk and...
Aug 23, 2007 | Essays
how is it i ask with thirty years of hindsight and four indulged and clammering children round our own that when we gathered everyone who mattered from the final hymn and handshake we the pride and joy the blessings and the stuff of dreams for their abundant lives...
Oct 17, 2006 | Essays
for the 2006 Boissevain-Morton history book The timing couldn’t have been better. Magdalene and I had just settled our family into the community after returning from 10 years with Mennonite Central Committee (8 in Africa and 2 in Saskatoon) when the Boissevain...
Sep 17, 2006 | Essays
(written in 2006 for the new Boissevain-Morton history book) Eighty years ago our grandparent’s Gerhard and Helena Neufeld stepped off the train at Whitewater. They arrived with fifteen family members including parents and siblings in the middle of winter (January 25,...
