Theme: The Big Splash
Spotting the ocean at the head of the trail – photographer Ritche Perez captures the sea
“First time hiking around Madrock in Bay Roberts. A rainbow connecting the rocks together surprised me just as I made it to the edge of the cliff.” “I’m on the…
Tzu-Hao Hsu: Where there was water I was first one in and always, always last one out
I was born in the year of the Water Pig. A few days after my arrival, my family brought my stars of conception and birth to a soothsayer who calculated…
Prohibited: Do Not Eat These Clams, by Amanda Bulman
There’s a very ugly beach near my grandfather’s house on Prince Edward Island. It was never beautiful, but it looked better when I was a kid. There were long sandbars…
The Best Laid Plans, by Xaiver Michael Campbell
The summer of 2019 was our summer of young love. I had been with my partner for a year and in the past six months we had physically merged lives,…
“Shakespeare might well have called our island ‘one built by Nature for herself / Against infection and the hand of war’,” by Paul Rowe
Newfoundland and Labrador is a place of the sea. To paraphrase Keats: Its eternal whisperings have been heard for eons against our desolate shores. Even when the cod stocks were…