The following was given in honour of John Rempel at his funeral on a sunny afternoon on March 1, 2018. Good afternoon. My name is Suhail and I am married to John Rempel’s eldest granddaughter, Jennifer. I might as well have been his grandson because John was entirely welcoming from the moment I met him … Continue reading A Eulogy for John Rempel
The Year My Grandfather Got Cancer
I've never been to a funeral. Attending one seems to me a kind of rite of passage, whereby a person pushes off from a harbor of sorts and into deeper waters. This is perhaps because I associate funerals with adulthood, adulthood being the porter which brings death closer. It's not that death hasn't touched people … Continue reading The Year My Grandfather Got Cancer
Writing Is Prayer 