![]() ![]() He was proud of his kids and took every opportunity to travel with them. Pat never missed a ball game, dance recital, or drum competition. He was well-respected in the industry and excelled at his job. Pat was a welder/pipe-fitter, working pipeline for several years until taking a job at Catalytic Construction at the Belle Plaine potash plant to be home with his family. They missed celebrating their 50th Anniversary together by four days. Pat met his wife, Marilyn Usher, and they were married June 29th, 1968. It was a "Smokey and the Bandit" era and he certainly gave his parents a grey hair or two. As he grew older and discovered his love of cars, he became a bit of a "wild child". He was a fixture at the YMCA in his younger years winning many athletic awards. Pat was born in Moose Jaw, SK and attended St Louis College. Although Pat battled Parkinson's for 22 years and had a number of challenges the past twelve months, his passing was unexpected and sudden. She reviews both fiction and non-fiction for The Telegram.With broken hearts the Sullivan family announces the passing of Patrick Leonard (Sully) on Monday, June 25th, 2018. Joan Sullivan is editor of Newfoundland Quarterly magazine. The characters have real grit, authenticity and volume and the prose is infused with wit, honesty and flavour. This is a structure with momentum and an unflinching tone ¬- Cleo doesn’t let herself off the hook and no one will come away with a romanticized notion of childbirth or caring for an infant. The chapters, all aptly titled, are short, sometimes not even a page. The story is divided into three parts, with an epilogue. The doorbell rang just as the crisp was caramelizing along the edges, pink liquid from the berries oozing up from the sides and rising up through holes in the topping like miniature geysers.” This is the first novel from Willow Kean, who is also an actress and playwright and writes about food, one of the many nice touches here: “Dessert was bubbling in the oven and it smelled nice, a small bit of comfort on such a cold night. Was Donna right? Did she have a duty to bring a child into the world to counterbalance all the crazy people having babies? If Fran’s kid took after her, it was doomed to a future of racking up credit card bills and yelling at housekeepers.” Cleo was so far away from a place like that she could’ve sat down on the kitchen floor and cried.”Īnd yet: “There’s a tug on something in her that she doesn’t quite know what to do with. It smelled like being on a whitewashed patio in Greece, all fruity and sunny and warm. “She poured some oil and balsamic in a small bowl and sniffed the olive oil bottle before putting the cap back on. ![]() “We should be so lucky,” being Nancy’s verdict.Īnd babies, by nature, bring a lot of changes. Nancy’s mother-in-law, Hazel, has pressured her into having Mack baptized - the last wish of her own 96-year-old mother, who is, apparently, dying. But Cleo’s not the only one with over-invested relatives. It’s soon awkwardly clear that Jamie has shared their plans with his parents. “He’s already talking about two kids and moving to the suburbs.” How would a child affect these family dynamics? “Jamie and I had the talk,” she tells Donna as work resumes after the holidays. ![]() Cleo and Jamie are always welcome, but never obliged to show up. In town, Maisie alternates a traditional Sunday dinner with more exotic flavour-of-the-week meals. They mark any family event with a celebration and a full turkey dinner, which Jamie and Cleo are expected to attend along with his sister, Krista, who had her first baby at 15 and is now a mother of five. They “drop by” when on Costco shopping excursions and that means tea and deliveries of tins of Nanaimo bars and trays of tetrazzini casserole and, if there’s a dirty dish in the house, Evelyn cleans it. Jamie’s parents, Evelyn and Hector, live in Clarenville. “Eyes in Front When Running” is the debut novel from Willow Kean. On some level, Cleo fears she basically ruined her mother’s artistic dreams. Her mother went to Paris in the 1970s to dance and came home pregnant. Nan, whom Cleo calls Nalfie, is also a close and significant influence.Ĭleo doesn’t know who her father is. Cleo’s mother, Maisie, met her stepfather, Joe, a firefighter, when Cleo was two. Her own family background is not a typical nuclear family. Her other good friend, Donna, doesn’t have kids. She saw what her friend and co-worker Nancy went through, with two miscarriages, though now she has two-year-old Mack. Cleo isn’t sure and the one thing she does know is she’s 38, which cuts her odds of conceiving and would classify her as “a geriatric mother” should she get pregnant. ![]()
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