Paul Farenbacher’s Yard Sale
Paul Farenbacher always told me, Never call yourself a salesperson. What you do isn’t sales, he’d say. You aren’t in sales. What you are doing is providing people with an …
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Water Everywhere, 1982
Somehow Helen had picked up the idea that there was such a thing as love and she had invested fully in it. Helen had summoned everything she was, every little …
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The house where I was born and died nudged up against Ranch Road. No whisper of smoke lifted from the chimney. The day had been hot, the doors and windows …
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The Society of Difference
An excerpt from the eighth annual LaFontaine-Baldwin Lecture, March 2, 2007, Vancouver
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