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The Soul of Rachel Marie Trumpy
By Miles Patrick Yohnke © 2026 All Rights Reserved. Rachel Marie Trumpy The force of life, filling, filling itself - With outstretched hands, reaching to something above, Take me to a place, a place beyond human reach, A place beyond the sick, beyond the human pain, Take me to a place. The force of life, filling, filling itself - With outstretched hands, reaching to something above, Take me to a place, a place beyond human reach, A place beyond the ill, beyond the human will,


The light of Margaret Anne dempsey (A short story)
By Miles Patrick Yohnke © 2025 All Rights Reserved. "They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time." - Banksy In Loving Memory of Margaret Anne Dempsey (September 28, 1963 - August 8, 1988) On Friday, August 8, 2025, I wrote a birthday letter to CTV Saskatoon reporter Stacey Hein , as she mentioned on-air the week before when filling in for Jeff Rogstad that it would be her birthday


I WILL LIVE FOR SOMETHING GREATER THAN MYSELF
By Miles Patrick Yohnke © 2025 All Rights Reserved. Nick Cave photo from 'One More Time with Feeling' by Nikolitsa Boutieros. It is time...


MISSION: POSSIBLE: OUR PERSPECTIVE
By Miles Patrick Yohnke © 2025 All Rights Reserved. 2025 is dedicated to the loving memory of Dr. Joseph Patrick Cunningham....


Light Source
By Miles Patrick Yohnke © 2023 © 2012 All Rights Reserved. Transmission. Her infinite light, Is transmitted through. This is where, The...


HAL SCHRENK AND I - PART II
By Miles Patrick Yohnke © 2026 All Rights Reserved. "Be a fountain, not a drain." - Rex Hudler Hal Schrenk - Photography: Liam Richards @ Electric Umbrella / © 2025 On February 22, 2026, Hal Schrenk will be sixty years of age. In this composition I'll speak of one life, Hal Schrenk, with the hope you learn more about him--and in the process learn more about yourself. In 1997, Hal Schrenk lived in the capital of our province of Saskatchewan, Regina. He was a drummer in one of


MISSION: POSSIBLE: ONCE UPON A LIFETIME
By Miles Patrick Yohnke © 2025 All Rights Reserved. Introduction To 'Mission: Possible: Once Upon a Lifetime' "I originally wrote and...


THE MAGICAL LIFE OF RONALD MELNYCHUK
By Miles Patrick Yohnke © 2025 All Rights Reserved. Ronald Melnychuk In the wee hours on a mild October 17, 1968, Thursday morning my...


CAN I GET AN AMEN? PART II - I LOVE YOU
By Miles Patrick Yohnke © 2025 All Rights Reserved. Through, thru, threw, To, too, two, Do, due, dew, Weight - wait!...


D.U.N.C.A.N.3.5
By Miles Patrick Yohnke © 2024 All Rights Reserved. Duncan MacPherson August 9, 2024, will mark thirty-five years since my friend, Duncan...


BLOOD AND OXYGEN
By Miles Patrick Yohnke © 2024 All Rights Reserved. "Sell isn't a dirty four-letter word. Quit is a dirty four-letter word." I've been...


Ramblings from a Retard
By Miles Patrick Yohnke © 2024 All Rights Reserved. Miles - grade three school picture A few years ago - I had the honour to visit the country of Whales. As a published righter I've been very blessed that my words have touched many lives around the globe. I was asked to be a righter in residence for one summer there. I've heard with its sweeping valleys, sandy bays, rugged cliffs, Gothic castles and national parks that it is one of the most beautiful places in the world, espe


For Those About To Bike (We Salute You)
By Miles Patrick Yohnke © 2024 © 2010 All Rights Reserved. INTRODUCTION TO FOR THOSE ABOUT TO BIKE (WE SALUTE YOU) In October of 2010 I...


THE FABULOUS AND BEAUTIFUL BARRY REY FLYNN
By Miles Patrick Yohnke © 2025 All Rights Reserved. Barry Flynn In the late 1980s--Barry Rey Flynn refashioned my existence. He asked me...


DEFENSIVENESS
By Miles Patrick Yohnke © 2023 All Rights Reserved. Racism: The Indigenous. The Blacks. The Jews. The Gays. Whom do you hate? When one...
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