Elliot

Elliot

  • Joined: October 13, 2016
  • Articles: 502

Time with Dinna (Part III)

In this personal and funny third installment with Dinna, we revisit stories from her early adulthood and parenting years. She recounts her brief history with a charming suitor named Mark. The episode then turns to Elliot’s chaotic childhood memories—from pig…

Time with Sammy (Part XI)

In this eleventh installment of Sammy’s story, we pick up as the family leaves Italy and arrives in Calgary in late 1979. Sammy, joined by his grandson Ramone, reflects on first impressions of the city—its emptiness, its sprawl, and the…

Father Figure

Trying on suits for Ramone's grade 9 graduation. Natalie's amazing home-made ice cream cake. Bike rides and picnics and throwing stuff.

May Baseball

Baseball in the month of May, including Bucks home games plus road trips to St. Albert, Stony Plain, and the Doc Plotsky tourament in Tofield and Sherwood Park.

Time with Sammy (Part X)

In this episode, Sammy looks back on the six months he, Dinna, and their seven-year-old son spent in Italy after leaving the USSR — the first time any of them had lived in a new country. He shares what it…