Today my brothers Lucas and Micheal, their girlfriends Melissa and Amanda, and my sister Sarah and I jumped out of an airplane. Talk about a rush. Lucas and Melissa Mike and Amanda Sarah and I ...  read more

Second Annual Senior Conway Girls Trip Location: Toronto, Ontario Conway Girls: Myself, my older sister Laurie, my younger sisters Sarah and Erin, and my cousins Jennifer, Kate and Emily. Highlights: Canada's Wonderland and Erin not vomiting after the roller coasters; Bar hopping downtown Toro...  read more

1st Annual Senior Conway Girls Trip Location: Montreal, Quebec Conway Girls: Myself, my older sister Laurie, my younger sisters Sarah and Erin, and my cousins Jennifer, Kate and Emily Highlights: Being nearly the only guests at La Ronde, and then riding so many roller coasters that Erin bonche...  read more

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It is hard to sleep the night before, knowing, as we do, that you will be making your arrival within hours. I pack and repack my hospital bag, and pace, and then lay sleepless in bed, my stomach all butterflies and baby. You sleep soundly, having no idea what is coming. Exhausted, I finally settl...  read more

I remember everything about this night. I remember the way the moonlight created deep shadows in the cruves and hollows of his body. I remember the sound of his breathing. I remember the colours, the smells. I remember the music trailing quietly in from the livingroom. Everything was whisper...  read more

What happened, I think, was that the timing was just right. Or wrong, depending on how you look at it. It had been two years since Mark died. After two years of outbursts, alcohol poisoning, fights, flunking grades, sessions with the school counsellor, grief counselling with the school chapl...  read more

We are reckless teenagers. We walk like high wire gymnasts across the train bridge, dropping empty beer bottles into the St. Mary’s River. Everyone is laughing. The night is cloudless and warm. Shoust is afraid of heights and balks at the edge of the bridge. Some of the others are coaxing him. Th...  read more