Learn two stories and tell one | Feb 9 2004 | (0)
It's possible to live without a sense of heritage, but I can't imagine why anyone would want to.
Wanted: stories to shape the world | Dec 27 2003 | (0)
Stories are the core of our identity – so why don’t we tell better ones?
Sing me back home | Nov 24 2003 | (0)
Music we know well can take us down the ghost road to the past.
The things we carry | Oct 15 2003 | (0)
A writer empties his pockets and discovers everything he
needed to know, he learned in the woods.
On the other hand | Aug 11 2003 | (0)
A right-hander discovers how difficult it is to live as a southpaw
After the fire | Jan 15 2003 | (0)
The music of our teen years still has power - even if those who wrote it fall from grace.
The gift of knowledge: a thrice-told tale | Sep 23 2002 | (0)
Adapted from Mi'kmaq tales recorded in 1923 on the island of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia by folklorist Elsie Clews Parsons.
The music at the edge of sound | Sep 16 2002 | (0)
We speak of "causes of death," but death itself is an effect, just as life is. We might as well shrug and exclaim "so it goes!" like Kurt Vonnegut's affable creation, Kilgore Trout - or perhaps "Croatoan," the word Sir Walter Raleigh's traders found carved into the stockade timbers at Roanoke in 1590 after the settlement's inhabitants had vanished.
The colour of autumn | Sep 2 2002 | (0)
A new school year means new clothes in the trendiest styles and shades. But for this bushwhacker, nothing beats an old black-and-red check mackinaw.
Bulletin, Martin Luther King is dead | Aug 18 2002 | (0)
ScribeCentral.com's "LINEANDDEADEYE" contributor, Eric, talks about life as a journalist after September 11 and shares some of Alden Nowlan's poetry.