Memoirs

QUIRK-E members’ stories about their unique and inspiring lives.

Radical Drag Anyone?

Greg Bourgeois

Fall is beginning and inevitably people start kidding around and asking me “so are you going to strap on a ...

Present at the Creation

Greg Bourgeois

[We are very sad to note that Greg passed away suddenly in November 2024. This was one of his last ...

Meeting a New Challenge

Chris Morrissey

It all started while I was on vacation in Puerto Vallarta. I noticed just a small sore on the heel ...

Daisy Air Rifle

Janie Cawley

When I was six, I saw an ad for a Daisy Air Rifle on the back of one of my ...

First Crush

Farren Gillaspie

When talking about my youth it can often sound like a Charles Dickens novel. As well as the worst of ...

Lucy the Cat Meets Santa at the Mall

Lorri Rudland

Jane’s cat, Lucy, had been quite naughty this year so Jane planned to take her to visit Santa Claus at ...

Red Boot Laces – Grise Fiord

Harris Taylor

The Tone was established on Day One at CBC Eastern Arctic when the manager gave me a tour of Iqaluit. ...

MAX DEXALL

Marsha Ablowitz

In 1954 when I was 10, a short older man with dark wavy hair came for dinner. He brought expensive ...

We’re not ‘Breeds!

Stephen Hardy

My Uncle George was always on the go. He’d be on a goose shoot, a duck shoot, or a prairie ...

more than just a writing group

Garth McIver

In April last year (2023), I attended a QMUNITY event at Creekside Community Centre aimed at services and opportunities for ...

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