Tag: Proud Daughter
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Memories of My Father – Lest We Forget

My father was a brilliant, well-respected man, an ordained minister, a charismatic speaker, a skilled psychotherapist, and a lover of beauty and poetry. He was a man who lived an extraordinary life. Growing up in a working class family, he was expected to quit school at the age of sixteen to get a job to…
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Adventures in Junior High School
When I was in junior high school, one of my friends got tickets for three of us to go to a concert in Toronto. We lived in the suburbs, so we had to take a bus to get there. I had a phobia about taking the bus, but my friends seemed to know where we…
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Why Louis Martin’s Daughter?
Most of my childhood memories revolve around our Church, as both my parents sang in the choir, and my father was the Assistant Pastor in charge of the Adult Bible Class. When I was 7 years old, we moved to Aurora, Ontario to live with my maternal grandfather after he was widowed, but we continued…
