Glenn Kubish

Here are three things that left behind tracks of happiness and gratitude last week as summer settled into Edmonton for its day in the sun. Three Things podcast, episode 128:                                1. Noses Before I realized that I hadn’t broken my nose or knocked my teeth out, I knew I had to get to safety—fast. I’d been on my skateboard, practising gliding off the city sidewalk onto the asphalt street in front of our house. There is no fancy name for this move. It’s not a fancy move. It’s what any eight-year-old skateboarder can do.  And I did do it, until, that last time, I hit a pebble in the gutter. It was enough to stop my right front wheel dead. I flew forward. In a blink, the front street transformed from a calm pool of blacktop into an angry wave crashing at me.  With a smack! I landed face first on the road. My right palm and left forearm did their best to cushion the impact, but t...

Bonjour tout le monde! Here are three things that made for some happiness and gratitude last week, not because there’s not a pile of other crap out there, but because there is.   Three Things podcast, episode 77:                          1. Pelicans   They are remarkable looking waterbirds, pelicans are. For the last two summers, every time I pedalled across, I made a point of glancing over the railing at the north end of the Quesnell Bridge to see if they were back. I first saw pelicans down there by the mouth of the storm sewer, where the fishin’ is good, in 2019. It was in June of that year that my binoculared friend Nicola pointed out 10 of them as they soared over the downtown farmers market.  That same summer was the first time I saw them at the outfall. I would stop and watch them from above on the bridge deck while eight lanes of traffic streamed by on Whitemud Drive. They were there the next day, an...