The summer of 1973, when I was seventeen, I hitch-hiked from Ottawa to Long Beach on Vancouver Island and back, by way of Dawson City,...

On the plane to Mexico City from Montreal I happened to sit beside Lilia, a young woman who had been part of Mexico’s Olympic gymnastics...

Days after the Great Dawson Flood of 1979, I arrived in Dawson City from Mexico. An ice jam on the Yukon River had forced water over the...