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Route 66
A Personal Journey
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What happens when you pack up a sixty-year-old Corvette, squeeze in just enough luggage (but somehow still bring the most important things), and set off on a bucket-list adventure down Route 66? Let’s find out! Join Nancy and Paul Garvey on the...
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Recovery Doesn't Happen Overnight
A Candid Diary of a Young Woman Navigating Addiction, Depression and Recovery
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After years of suffering from depression, addiction, anxiety, and shame surrounding my sexual identity, I make a desperate move to Western Canada to work with my sister and start a new life. I didn’t know what recovery would look like for me, but...
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Why Men Also Cry
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Larry’s story begins in 1938 in a small cabin without running water or electricity in the Nova Scotia wilderness. Born to an irresponsible mother and an absent father, he and his sisters suffer neglect until they are eventually separated and...
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Reclaiming the Clay
Stories of Change
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What happens when the faith culture that shaped your life begins to fracture? In Reclaiming the Clay, a young girl grows up in a Dutch Calvinist immigrant community in mid-twentieth-century Canada, surrounded by family, tradition, and a deep...
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"I'm a Magnet to Stuff"
The Life and Times of MB2 - A Life Well Lived
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Some people stumble into trouble. Marybeth “MB2” Buffington seems to attract it. However, when calamity comes knocking, she always manages to meet it with a grin, a quick comeback, or a linebacker-style tackle, depending on what the situation...
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Our Global Health Care Journey Within God's Greater Reality
Memoirs and Reflections
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Most individuals who embark on a health care career discover quite early that their working journey is one of responding to others’ needs. No matter what the circumstance or where the location, health care is a global need requiring a response...
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A Chameleon from the Land of the Quagga
An Immigrant's Story
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Growing up ‘European’ in 1930s and ‘40s South Africa, Joan leads a privileged life … though marred by family tragedy. After she escapes her Victorian grandmother’s repressive upbringing to study midwifery, she comes face to face with the racial...
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My Two Years in Colombia
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John has loved traveling his whole life, and in the early 2000s it was the country of Colombia that captured his heart. Always ready for something new, he recounts his adventures to beautiful beaches, history-filled cities and everything the...
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Broken Silence
Finding My Voice in a World That Tried to Keep Me Quiet
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After surviving abuse in her childhood home in India, Sarah flees to the promised safety of an arranged marriage in Canada. But when she arrives, she discovers that her new husband is as dangerous as the trauma she left behind. Isolated from her...
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Dearest Mother
Letters from the Australian Gold Rush and Beyond
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“I have often wished that some of you were here to see the strange things I see.” —Walter Bentley Woodbury, 1853 In 1852, eighteen-year-old Walter Bentley Woodbury set sail from England to Australia in search of gold. What he found instead,...
