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by Jerry Donaldson 493 words On the Super Constellation from Tokyo I was seated in non-smoking. As soon as I hit the tarmac at O’Hare I lit up a cigarette. Inside the terminal I lit another from the butt of the first. The immigration officer told me to put it out.

by Jerry Donaldson (about 775 words) My name is Jimmy MacDougall and I’ve lived here on the cay all my life.  I make my living doing this and that around the wharves over in Jamestown.  Mend nets, mend sails, do a little boat building, a little fishing.  And I do salvage.

  by Jerry Donaldson “Terminal A” was originally a one-shot story based on my time at the Post Office.  But friends asked for more, so I will continue to add chapters from time to time Chapter 1 At the age of 16 I got my first real job.  I became a part-time mail handler atContinue reading “TERMINAL A chapter 1”

By Jerry Donaldson 500 words In the summer of 1981 he lived in a tiny loft at the boatworks and life was perfect.  High up in the big boat shed, right out over the water, he had one room with a bathroom.  On warm June nights he could hear the sea lions barking from theContinue reading “IN THE BOAT SHED”

by Jerry Donaldson Chapter 2 In the summer of 1970 Garth and I quit the post office to drive to California.  I’d met Garth in the summer of 1969, while idling with a few of the other part-time mail handlers on the stone wall enclosing a small courtyard at the grand entrance to Terminal A. Continue reading “TERMINAL A chapter 2”

by Jerry Donaldson Here on the beach, dogs have become an issue.  Again.  Off-leash dogs can bring happiness to their owners and the others around them.  Poorly monitored off-leash dogs just annoy people.  Some dog owners fail to see this and don’t take the simple steps required to avoid trouble:  pick up poo, don’t letContinue reading “Dogs on Cadboro Bay Beach”