Triggered by a Census Notice

The Census Canada notice for this latest census arrived in the mail early last week. Just seeing the notice triggered a wave of raw emotions from when I worked as a census enumerator in 2011. It was such a challenging time of my life. In 2008 my decades long factory job ended after the factory…

Well, Grandma Was a Christian

I’ve worked a lot of jobs in my lifetime. From grave digging, to brick and block laborer, farm worker, to factory worker, to warehouse worker, to painter, to ditch digger, to leaky basement laborer, to ski lift operator, to worker in the water well drilling industry. But the one job I really dreaded heading out…