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Fall Beginning...Pink Pearl Erasers and Pnchy New Shoes
When the first crisp kick of autumn air hits my lungs, I’m taken right back: Pink Pearl erasers, pinchy new shoes, and a schoolbag full...
Alana Barker
Sep 9, 2024
3 min read
The B Side
When my mother died, she left behind boxes of minutiae and memories, among them: programs from every play I’d done, all her driver’s...
Alana Barker
Dec 16, 2023
4 min read
The Wing: Part 3
I wish I could say I returned home to Toronto and got right down to fanning my newly rekindled writing spark after visiting Harriet that...
Alana Barker
Oct 7, 2023
4 min read
The Wing Part 2 Revelations
In July 1989, with a couple of days off from a Second City tour, I guided my rental car along a mind-numbingly straight Manitoba highway;...
Alana Barker
Sep 22, 2023
6 min read
Herons/Hunters
They soar past my house, down the path of the riverway below. Three synchronized feathered skeletons, broad wings outstretched, doing a...
Alana Barker
Feb 27, 2023
2 min read
The Wing: Part 1 - First Impressions
Harriet had hung up on me. I knew I wouldn’t hear from her again. My heart sat, a tight tiny rock in my chest. Instead of helping, I...
Alana Barker
Jan 26, 2023
4 min read
In Dignity
Moira collapsed onto the warm summer grass between her mother and father, awash in autumn sunshine and sweat. Who knew burying your...
Alana Barker
Jan 26, 2023
9 min read
Thoughts fly swiftly on the wings of intuitions." ... Learn to listen to 'the still small voice'. "
- Harriet M Schraeder
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