Author Archives: riverwriter

About riverwriter

Poet, playwright, duplicate bridge player, website designer, cottager, husband, father, grandfather, former athlete, carpenter, computer helper for my friends, theatre designer, backstage polymath, retired teacher of highschool English, drama, art, a baritone singer in a barbershop quartet, who knows what else? wordcurrents is on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wordcurrents/ Doug also has a Facebook page, "Incognitio", related to his novels.

subjective

As kids after the second world war, we saw some of the victims. DPs we were told to call them, but we didn’t understand. (#1085) Continue reading

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Februaundry

I recall my mother hanging the wash on days so cold it froze as it hit the air.(1084) Continue reading

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Review: Vimy by Vern Thiessen

A review of Great Canadian Theatre Company’s and National Arts Centre’s excellent coproduction at GCTC. Continue reading

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