[Home Game, Kingston Life magazine, September 2020] Good scribes cover athletics with guts and grace In a piece he wrote in The Whig last summer about a local baseball legend (Big Joe Devine), sportswriter Patrick Kennedy coined a phrase to describe Devine’s Bunyanesque dimensions – even as a 12-year-old. To make the point that […]
Read more »A Year of Living Generously — published ten years ago — was featured as part of a series of podcasts on generosity. Up and running as of December 2020. To listen to the podcast, which was taped on the porch of my cabin in Prince Edward County, appropriately enough, on Thanksgiving weekend in October 2020, […]
Read more »[HOME GAME, Kingston Life magazine, May/June 2019] THE PLAY-LEARN LINK And How Risk Builds Resilience in Children By LAWRENCE SCANLAN A wispy nine-year-old boy with freckles across his nose and cheeks is visiting the farm of his grandparents near the village of Tamworth, north of Kingston, and he has ventured […]
Read more »WHAT I LEARNED ON THE CAMINO PRIMITIVO It’s all about the basics – food, shelter and human company By LAWRENCE SCANLAN The summer of 2016 was the summer, for me at least, of the Caspian tern and the yellow conch. First the tern. I had not noticed the […]
Read more »Kingston Life magazine. March/April 2014. Go to http://eedition.kingstonlife.ca/doc/kingston-life/_kl_feb2014/2014031001/#24Hope in Hell Shouldn’t prisons make offenders better, not worse? By Lawrence Scanlan In the tiny chapel at Pittsburgh Institution, a prison just north of the city, stand three stained-glass windows made years ago inside notorious Kingston Penitentiary — some twenty-four kilometres to the southwest. Ten feet tall, the […]
Read more »The Wind at Our Backs Notes from a Long Haul, Two-Wheeled Journey By Lawrence Scanlan | Michael Cooke Photo By Lawrence Scanlan [Published in Kingston Life Magazine 2012] The confusion was understandable. I would tell people I was cycling to Newfoundland and what they heard was this: I was going to fly to “The Rock,” noodle […]
Read more »Kingston Life: The Sticks of the Stars My brother, Gus (as we call him in the clan), was born on April 21, 1951 — the night that Bill Barilko scored a goal in overtime to win the Stanley Cup for the Toronto Maple Leafs. In those days, fathers did not go into delivery rooms but they […]
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