title: Nine Little Lives
author: Bruskiewich, Patrick
description: This small collection of tales is composed of nine little stories about my growing up.  The stories span from age five to when I was twenty years old.   These are stories about a Catholic boy finding happiness and love in the world he grew up in.  It sort of dates me when I tell you I grew up in the 1960’s and 70’s in Western Canada … et de temps en temps … visited my relatives back East.    My mother was French Canadian and came from Montreal.  My father was English Canadian from the West.   The only thing they really had in common was the Latin Mass.  My parents were two solitudes brought together at the same place and at the same time.     My growing up was a time of great exuberance, of great discoveries …and sometimes a great confusion ... after all it was the turbulent sixties and seventies …