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The Great Hardisty Creek Deluge, Gumboot Caper & Whodunnit – Saga 2
(A tale best told, sung, read or listened to after quaffing copious tankards of mead.) INVOCATION: “In the name of mighty Thor, I do hereby invoke Thorslov for the following tale, an ikke en tilståelse, (un-tilståelse or un-confession).” – Nordic Nu-Saga Hardisty…
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The Great Hardisty Creek Deluge, Gumboot Caper & Whodunnit – Saga 1
In Three Sagas, Boystown, Alberta, ca.1962 By Wayne A. Melvin INVOCATION, WARNINGS & LEGALESE “In the name of mighty Thor, I do hereby invoke Thorslov for the following tale – an ikke en tilståelse, (un-tilståelse or un-confession).” – Invocation from the…
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Hot, Hot Springs on a Cold, Cold Night
It was winter, a long, long time ago, when the earth and I were both still young. In the days when wizards, draft dodgers, hobos and hobbits still walked freely among us. When people still listened to the Kingston Trio and…
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Life In the Time of Lilacs
“When one flower blooms spring awakens everywhere.”* Springtime in Alberta is a much-welcomed event. Months of bitter cold, ice and snow, and brutal northerly winds slowly give way to dancing pussy willows along the creeks and river bottoms and the greening…
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Quest for a Long-Lost Friend
Verily, Verily I Solemnly Declare this to be a Faithful and Mostly Truthsome Chronicle of the Quest for a Long-Lost Friend Who Vanished Somewhere Along the Enchanted Shores of the Salish Sea and the Blessed Isles of Pender, Mayne, Holy Ganges…
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On Wandering and Wanderers
In the 72 years I have been resident on planet Earth I have wandered 67 billion kilometers around the sun – traveling at 30 km per second. Close to a billion km a year. And the entire galaxy is wandering off…
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Welcome to Wayne’s Wanderings
Welcome everyone…. This is an auspicious day in the Vedic calendar of ancient India – Akshaya Tritiya, the Day of Lasting Achievements* – a time for launching new enterprises or setting goals. A great time for launching this new blog! Hopefully…
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Hardisty Creek Revisited
Hardisty Creek — the legendary, Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer river of my youth. This was my personal Mississippi and River Nile, a place of wonder and enchantment, a realm of great adventures, mortal danger and endless hours of swimming, fossil hunting…
