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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
Thoughts fly swiftly on the wings of intuitions." ... Learn to listen to 'the still small voice'. "
- Harriet M Schraeder
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