Eastwick and Milne kept me safe for a while until the next stage rehearsal this time in Calgary at a school where we were temporarily housed Nellie McClung wasn't yet ready but it held great promise being purpose built so we were told with a central library ringed by open concept classrooms the fact that Ms. McClung had been a suffragette and an MLA was lost on use 7 and 8 as we were wanting only a playground or a hopscotch grid painted on the compound so we could trace our steps chasing after house keys because in those days we were all latchkeys or wanted to be if we weren't there was something about the charm of a fridge that dispensed ice and the possibility of snacks to be had dreamed of all afternoon and if you got there first snacks to be snatched before brothers could take them with construction on Nellie McClung behind schedule and school opening delayed we sheltered at John Ware a place that had a...

Give us this Day is the online creative journal of Kurtis Kitagawa, PhD (Edinburgh), MPhil (Oxford), MA (Chicago), BA First Class Honours (Calgary), who, withal, considers himself a student of history. Check daily for freshly composed essays and offbeat creative writing inspired by a life spent in universities, government, and business. Job offers gratefully accepted. Alternative facts welcome, and will not be burned. Nor will their ashes be used as eye shadow!