Jun 13
6 min read
The Mother
Introduction: This is an account of a trip of discovery I made to understand the story of my grandmother, who died young and in poverty in a small Canadian prairie town. The town was so remote that my mother was born in a Post Office! (Those were the days when they delivered everything!) I drove up from the city to locate the ghost-town of her youth. This is my journey…
He speared the distance like a hunter
and cleared the main road quickly;
Like a hunter he started with the faintest spoor
