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Ok, I’m falling behind. Let’s pick up where we were last time. Maybe we can catch up. The four of us were sitting around a table in our coach room with a big window looking out on the woods and the Gatineau River. The trees were green. The sky was blue. The wild flowers were […]

I had a dream last night—about work. Here we are in summertime Ontario, and I had a dream about work. It wasn’t a particularly happy dream. I was getting left behind. Meetings were being called, and I wasn’t invited and had to show up myself. A summer student was getting assigned work that I was […]

He waved us in from behind the window, motioned for us to come in and held out a plate with salad and potatoes and round bread filled with meat. “Today’s special! You get this and a drink,” he said. The place was tiny, the back half of what obviously used to be a single restaurant, […]

As it happened, thanks to the labor of the Fair and Industrious Trudy, our full day at Niagara Falls included three things for which we needed rain slickers. 1. Under the Falls On the Canadian side, they have tunnels that lead into the rock to several places behind the falls. They give you yellow rain […]

We had dinner on the terrace overlooking the falls and got a seat right at the edge—something that only comes to those who are so ready to eat that they show up before the rush. And frankly, we were very ready to eat. From our perch, we were able to watch the rainbows come and […]