BY ESTHER BELIN We brought Hannah home today in afternoon sun with a crisp chill in the air on a hill overlooking the bay. Two women with a child and a shovel and a frozen placenta wrapped in aluminum foil placed in a red plastic bag. Hannah was brought into this world some say fourth … Continue reading Bringing Hannah Home

It's not a bad thing to change your mind - it can be a virtue. Good scientists and historians are always prepared to change their opinions if new evidence contradicts them. They put forward revised theories, also to be tested. That is how our understanding of the world has increased. The reason we know that … Continue reading You can change your mind

Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings, much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. George Eliot A half truth … Continue reading Truth

Those who follow the crowd usually go no further than the crowd. Those who walk ahead are likely to find themselves in places where no one has gone before.

In the late 50s we moved back to Winnipeg. We moved into an apartment on Roy Avenue not far from Pacific, where Grandfather Charlie Wong's house was. It was kind of a shabby place, a second-floor apartment with one or two bedrooms, a kitchen and a toilet that was in the closet near the front … Continue reading Roy Avenue