Verdict in Blood (2011)
“It was 7:00 a.m. Our collie, Sadie, had died in June, and Rose, in her grief and confusion at losing her lifelong companion, had become a stickler about adhering to the old routines. By this time, she and I were usually halfway round the lake. I rubbed her head. “Cut me a little slack, Rose,” I said. “It was a long night, and I don’t bounce back the way I used to.”
Fifteen minutes later, we were on our familiar route. For the first time in weeks, Wascana Park wasn’t throbbing with the drums and shouts of a team getting ready for the Dragon Boat Festival. The exuberant event had become a highlight of our city’s celebration of the last weekend of summer, but now the paddlers had gone home, and the only sounds on the lake were the squawks of the geese and the shouts of the men loading the last of the big boats onto trailers.
The races had been held all day Saturday. A crew from “Canada Tonight,” the TV show on which I appeared every weekend as a political panellist, had drawn a position ...in one of the first heats, and Alex and Eli and my kids and I had gone down to the lake to offer moral support.MoreLess
Fifteen minutes later, we were on our familiar route. For the first time in weeks, Wascana Park wasn’t throbbing with the drums and shouts of a team getting ready for the Dragon Boat Festival. The exuberant event had become a highlight of our city’s celebration of the last weekend of summer, but now the paddlers had gone home, and the only sounds on the lake were the squawks of the geese and the shouts of the men loading the last of the big boats onto trailers.
The races had been held all day Saturday. A crew from “Canada Tonight,” the TV show on which I appeared every weekend as a political panellist, had drawn a position ...in one of the first heats, and Alex and Eli and my kids and I had gone down to the lake to offer moral support.MoreLess
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