Memoir

Aged photo of a small cottage with teal wooden siding. Photo is glued to a page from a photo album with vertical lines of glue visible around the edges.

Memoir

Saying Goodbye to the Family Cottage

August 29, 2024August 29, 2024 - by Chris Goodyear

Using household artifacts and a tiny old film camera, I recreated the past in my basement

A ghostly black and white photo of a family is super-imposed onto a colour photo of an older man peering into the open door of a home

Memoir

How Not to Ask Your Dad about Family Secrets

August 22, 2024August 22, 2024 - by Sadiya Ansari

I tried to get answers about my grandmother’s mysterious past. Turns out, I still had a lot to learn about myself

A foggy, dark scene lit by lamposts of Mont Royal in Montreal

Memoir

What Cruising Taught Me about Love

July 26, 2024July 26, 2024 - by Peter Dubé

I found connection in hidden trails, the flicker of cigarette ends, and fleeting encounters

A black-and-white illustration of two Indigenous with long braids of hair that are intertwined above their heads. A blood red moon is between them.

Health / July/August 2024 / Memoir

Colonization Has Made a Taboo Out of Menstruation

June 26, 2024July 29, 2024 - by Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory

My blood and how it speaks to me have become sources of my courage, my decisiveness, my quelling of self-doubt

An illustration of man with glasses drumming his hands on a briefcase. Against a black background, many multi-coloured page swirl around him.

July/August 2024 / Memoir

I Tried to Finish a Dead Man’s Novel

June 20, 2024June 20, 2024 - by Richard Kelly Kemick

It is both a gift and a curse to be handed a briefcase containing a life’s work

A woman holds the receiver of a rotary phone while gazing out the window in a still from In the Mood for Love

Memoir

The Perks of Yearning

March 12, 2024March 12, 2024 - by Victoria Chan

Nostalgia has always seemed more bitter than sweet to me. But every time I indulge in it, I find it serves a purpose, even if I know I won’t be satisfied

An illustration of a bride and groom on their wedding day, with their miniaturized younger selves holding hands while climbing up the back of the bride’s dress.

Memoir

When I Met My Husband, We Didn’t Speak the Same Language

February 14, 2024February 14, 2024 - by Sheena Rossiter

Neither of us knew we were about to embark on a journey across countries and cultures to have our love legally recognized

A black and white photo of a man with a puzzle piece tattoo on the back of his neck

Memoir / November 2023 / September 2013

Body and Soul

November 25, 2023November 27, 2023 - by Drew Nelles

Dan was the most physical person I knew. Then he broke his neck

A photo illustration of a military portrait of the author’s grandfather against a paper-texture background.

Memoir

My Grandpa Never Spoke of the War. I Needed to See Where He Fought

November 10, 2023November 10, 2023 - by Christine Estima

Looking around the Italian village, bullet holes still peppering the bricks, I can feel something in my bones, haunting me

Memoir

20 Years of The Walrus: Memoirs

September 15, 2023September 15, 2023 - by Various Contributors

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Saying Goodbye to the Family Cottage

What Cruising Taught Me about Love

Colonization Has Made a Taboo Out of Menstruation

I Tried to Finish a Dead Man’s Novel

The Perks of Yearning

When I Met My Husband, We Didn’t Speak the Same Language

My Grandpa Never Spoke of the War. I Needed to See Where He Fought

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