Friends, Moments, Countryside : Selected Columns from Canadian Living, 1993-98

by GZOWSKI, PETER

• ISBN13: 9780771036996
• ISBN10: 077103699X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: MCCLELLAND & STEWART

Summary

The essays themselves are organized into the three parts of the book. "Friends" features, for the most part, ordinary people who have touched his life, from childhood friends to those who are "as famous as possible under the circumstances of being Canadian". The pleasures of cooking -- and the gaffes -- come up more than once in the essays in Part Two, "Moments". The essays in Part Three, "Countryside", celebrate Gzowski's beloved Canada, from Swallow Point in Nova Scotia, to Rankin Inlet on Hudson's Bay, host of one of Gzowski's Golf Invitationals in the cause of literacy.

Author Biography

Former host of CBC Radio’s “Morningside,” <b>Peter Gzowski</b> was one of Canada’s pre-eminent journalists. He was a Companion of the Order of Canada, the winner of seven ACTRA awards, as well as the Peabody Award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting – the only Canadian ever to have been given the award for work as an individual. He received many lifetime achievement awards and honorary doctorates from twelve Canadian universities, the citation for the University of Calgary describing him as “the cartographer of the Canadian soul.” <br><br>He was the author of many best-selling books, including <i>The Game of Our Lives</i>, his memorable work on hockey (1981), <i>The Private Voice</i>, his memoir from 1988, five collections of <i>Morningside Papers<

Table of Contents

Introduction
As Canadian as Possible ...	3	(28)
Part One: Friends
He's Our Man	31	(4)
Mr. Dressup
Joined at the Hip	35	(4)
Geoff
Who He Was	39	(4)
Sandy
A Couple of Grey-haired Grandfathers	43	(4)
John
A Call from Rhonda	47	(4)
A Group to Hit Golf Balls With (4 letters)	51	(4)
Oops! Check That, Would You?	55	(4)
Celebrating Our Own	59	(4)
Cooking with Bonnie, a First Course ...	63	(4)
A Second Course ...	67	(4)
And a Third --- With Elizabeth	71	(6)
Hairdresser Guilt	77	(4)
Lisa
A Dangerous Woman to Know	81	(4)
Molly
The Spirit Spreader	85	(4)
Tom
A Guide on the Way Back	89	(4)
Coach Peter
Alex and the Chickens	93	(4)
Gloria and I, at Sixty	97	(4)
Now I Remember	101	(4)
Louise
A Lesson in Growing Up	105	(3)
Mick
The Last of His Kind	108	(7)
Pet
Part Two: Moments
``If You Really Want to Hear About It ...''	115	(4)
Putting the Play Back in Games	119	(3)
And the Games Back in Play	122	(4)
And Even, Sometimes, Lying	126	(4)
A Heck of a Guy, Remembered	130	(4)
When You've Met One Goodyear ...	134	(4)
The Day We Bought the Sheep	138	(4)
Making a Fashion Statement	142	(4)
Thing My Father Taught Me	146	(3)
Pasta
How Not to Prepare a Duck	149	(4)
Or Buy Greens	153	(4)
Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Drink the Water ...	157	(4)
The Joys of Channel Surfing	161	(4)
Notes of a Driver Whose Car Is Smarter Than He Is	165	(4)
And Who Loses Things	169	(4)
Including (Occasionally) His Glasses	173	(3)
And Who Still Shops at the Last Minute	176	(4)
Health Care 1: Diagnosis	180	(4)
Health Care 2: Recovering	184	(4)
Memoirs of a Boulevardier	188	(4)
A Bittersweet Graduation	192	(7)
Part Three: Countryside
Watson Lake, White Rock, Wolfville	199	(4)
Swallow Point 1: On Passages and Places	203	(3)
Swallow Point 2: A Place to Dream	206	(4)
Swallow Point 3: Ladies of the House	210	(4)
Swallow Point 4: The Rewards of Fame	214	(4)
Sechelt: Cooking Tips from All Over	218	(4)
Ranking Inlet: Scrabble Tips from the Arctic	222	(4)
What's Black and Blue and Floats in St. John's Harbour? Don't Ask	226	(4)
My Country Is Not Winter. It's a Song ...	230	(3)
... Especially in Cape Breton	233	(4)
Les Joies des Deux Langues	237	(4)
The Blasted Pine and Other Landscapes	241	(3)
Virtual Travel in the New World	244	(4)
And Real Travels in a Very Old One	248	(4)
Dickson Park 1: Winning the World Series	252	(4)
Dickson Park 2: Not To Mention the Stanley Cup	256	(4)
Sure It Rains in Prince Rupert. But ...	260	(4)
Losing Gold Balls, Coast to Coast to Coast	264	(4)
The Biggest Expanse of Nothing at All ...	268	(4)
Home	272