TERRY GROVES

Legends abound when you are a young brat. Read about my adventure in the arms of a fateful tree.

What brats get up to

When we lived in Clinton, I learned about a board-type game called Ka-bala. TV said it could predict the future, that it knew all my...

Sometimes simple gestures carry the weight of the world.

It is peculiar how some memories remain so vivid while others fade. Perhaps that is just the course of your life. I know this one shows...

When you're a kid, nothing has to be what it was designed to be. A youthful imagination can turn just about anything, into just about...

As you can imagine, money was tight in our family of eight. Us boys were growing fast and our furnaces needed constant stoking. Eating...

Going to the movies was quite a tradition when I lived in the PMQs in Clinton in the 60s. The theater was called The Pegasus, and had a...

My older brother Robin and I headed to the store. It was in a strip mall near Jameswood School. We were not supposed to go there but...

It was the summer of '67 or '68 and we were living in the PMQs at CFB Clinton. I guess my older brothers, Mark and Robin, were feeling...

I don't have a lot of memories of Jameswood Drive school even though I went there for grade 1 and 2 beginning in 1963. Here is what I do...

I don't know where this bit of trivia came from but I recall being told it by my older brother Mark. I am not certain why I recall this...

In about 1968, when I was ten or so, I had a bit of a fascination with fire. I wasn't running around lighting them, I just liked how a...

It was all about the games.

Why do we make some of the choices we do?

Winter was magical when I was a kid. Being outside, even during a bitter cold Winnipeg winter was where we, my brothers and I, wanted to...

Webster-Mirriam definition of brat. (Entry 1 of 2) 1a disparaging : child specifically : an ill-mannered annoying child a spoiled brat....