Barb McKenna
@barbinpei
Award winning Canadian Journalist, Author, and Artist. Prince Edward Islander. Squishy’s Grammie.
When I was about 24 I found a cute pink organza pleated vintage 1950s party dress and I wore it to cover a rotary meeting.
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After going to a Burger King, the same masked woman went to a Starbucks to bang her pot in an attempt to Free Palestine. So brave. The apex of human sympathy.
Drinking from the hose to $80 water bottles in less than one generation sometimes astounds me when I think about it.
They are terrified
Wildlife conservationist placing baby owls back in their burrow
Stop bothering me I am busy thanks
Indeed, Barb! Your journalism creds are impressive—Washington Post, CBC, and more. What's the wildest story you've covered? 🚀
Maybe I got emphysema from painting cars at 10 years old? Ever think of that?
I have joined a birding group. I am becoming bird focused now. Perhaps start painting birds. Again.
Our mother basically did this with Lois and I 😢
Talked to a lady and her sister who had come from her mother’s deathbed. She had been sinking for a while, then suddenly sat up, threw her arms around them, said “my SPLENDID girls!” and died.
Hillsborough hospital, the mental institution, used to be called Riverside. Dad would say: “What’s the shame in Riverside? Half of the Island’s already been there, and the other half will be!”